Donna Wentworth, of the Berkman Center attended and blogged the legal panel discussion at the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo in Boston. This conference addressed "the recent emergence of Weblogs into the business world and their rising importance as a medium of communication." The various panelists presented "the latest developments, strategies, and success stories behind what is now becoming known as the Business Blog, or B-Blog for short."
Her detailed notes are in: Harvard Weblogs: The Law of the Blog
Among the panelists was John Palfrey, who works at the Berkman center with Wentworth. She quoted him in part:
"Three or four months ago we created Weblogs at Harvard Law, a blogspace; we put it up and watched to see what happened--like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. Anyone with a Harvard email address can now get a weblog in that space--including untold numbers of alumni, etc.
We've learned three things, pretty quickly: 1.) watch out about becoming an ISP, 2.) be ready for take-off, it happens more quickly than you think and 3.) blogs are good for the Web and good for you.
Thanks for Wentworth for alerting this reader at her site about the law and politics of intellectual property in a networked world, Copyfight.org. She has been with the Berkman Center since 1997 and also hosts The Filter, which has a steady stream of public interest Internet news and commentary, also published by the Berkman Center.
Thank *you.*
Posted by: Donna Wentworth at June 16, 2003 07:01 PM