Berkman Center Open House 50 Church Street, Cambridge 7pm Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society is having an open house tonight. We may or may not make it, but we did make it to a discussion of two Center pals' new book last night, and we have a couple things to say about it. In their talk, Urs Gasser and John Palfrey discussed their new book, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of......

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Berkman Center Event Austin North Classroom, Austin Hall (Map) Harvard Law School (Mass Ave & Cambridge St, Cambridge) 7pm, free! Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society is one of the more interesting tech institutions in town (of course, that "MIT" place has a thing or two going for it as well). Tonight, the Center celebrates the release of a new......

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......

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......