Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today`s Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, argues that the internet`s so-called "democratization" of information and entertainment is resulting in the dumbing down of culture and the appearance of an increasingly powerful oligarchy of anonymous online activists.

What is the role of University in Cyberspace?  A Berkman conference discusses these issues.

Nicholas Negroponte Keynote
Introduction and Welcome
Professor Mary Wong
John Palfrey Keynote
Working Group Report and Action Plan
Final Words from David Weinberger

The OpenNet Initiative held its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide

morning session
afternoon session

Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School and co-founder of Global Voices

Judith Miller, journalist, author and former New York Times reporter; Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications, Woodrow Wilson School, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism