On Friday, Creative Commons founder, former Electronic Freedom Frontier board member, and copyright-turned-corruption guru Lawrence Lessig announced that he will be returning to Harvard to serve as a professor of law and faculty director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, continuing his recent anti-corruption work. Lessig was on hand Friday night to reacquaint himself with Harvard, sitting on a Creative Commons panel with James Boyle, Joi Ito, and Molly S. Van Houweling. The group was moderated by Jonathan Zittrain. The main theme of the evening pitted a tradition of control vs. a future of sharing.
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Many a Sunday finds Bostonist somewhat hung-over, looking at a greasy plate of bacon, eggs, and some sort of potato product. By the time brunch has finished we've already missed a great classical music concert at the Isabella Stewart Garner Museum. We feel rewarded when we do end up making it to the ISGM for the Sunday afternoon show. The ISGM offers a whole lot of what those smart folks call "fine art." Today, in a totally hip move, the museum launched a new webcast, The Concert that will let us catch all the classical goodness they offer up on Sundays under a deliciously unrestrictive Creative Commons license letting the sounds be heard and shared. The Concert won't be a replacement for a Sunday afternoon at the ISGM (it really is beautiful if you've never been), but it will allow us to catch up on those we miss, and give us a little culture to drop during a dinner party or an afternoon sitting around blogging.
On the coat tails of the Herald’s sale of many of its suburban newspaper franchises, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported both newspapers in town saw a decline in circulation numbers – both papers down and Boston placed only second behind San Francisco for declining print readership. The Herald saw its print subscription drop at a slightly higher pace than the Globe for both the weekday circulation and the Sunday edition. It’s not that surprising...
First off, we know the headline is misleading. This post is all news about citizen media - we're not going to be bold and try to claim that it actually is citizen journalism. Some say Dan Gillmor is the father of citizen media. Regardless of whether you believe that, he did, in fact, write the book on it. This year he’s a non-resident fellow at the Berkman Center and lectured there earlier this week....
We are quickly running out of videos to show you that have some sort of Boston relevance. If you know of some out there please tip us off. Otherwise, please take your videophone or camcorder out to the streets and capture some top-notch content that we can exploit. Today’s video of the day is not really a video but a flash concert starring - wait for it - sheep. Created by a former Berkman Center fellow and DEAS (that's Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences) student, “Sheep Beats” is a sequencer that lets you create your own songs using a simple matrix of beats on a limited number of instruments. Rarely does Bostonist feel like a rock star, but when sheep are taking center stage we feel a little more confident in our creations. For anyone who thinks this is just too boring to be featured on this site, well, check this out.
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