Audio of the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee’s Staten Island public hearing on Thursday Mar 5 is now available here. Video and summaries will follow.
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Audio/Video of AT&T Breakup 25th Anniversary event.
High quality audio and video of last Friday’s Has Divestiture Worked? event @ NYU can now be found below.
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A crash course on the Internet
Zittrain (from 2004) sets us straight:
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Video of Lawrence Lessig @ NYU
Below is video/audio of Lawrence Lessig’s talk at NYU last Sunday
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Video of NYC Council webcasting proposal public hearing
Below is video of last week’s public hearing on the proposal to webcast NYC City Council and other municipal meetings. It was informative with first, representatives of the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) giving the official line, and then, two presentations by commercial vendors. After which Common Cause, the Peoples Production House, and others spoke on behalf of the public interest.
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Is Success Killing the Internet? Zittrain debate webcast Thursday
Jonathan Zittrain will debate the premise of his book ‘The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It.’ on Thursday Nov 6 – 3.30pm-5pm – at the New America Foundation in Washington DC.
The debate will be webcast live.
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Video of John Perry Barlow @ NYU
Here is video of John Perry Barlow’s talk for Evan Korth’s Computers and Society speaker series last Monday at NYU – “The First Internet Election?”
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ISOC-NY coming events / recent webcasts
ISOC-NY MeetingsISOC-NY is not having it’s regular monthly meeting this month. However there will be two working group meetings.
TONIGHT! Tue Oct 21 Event planning meeting     7-8pm   – rm 317 251 Mercer st (Warren Weaver Hall – NYU)
ISXubuntu working group – Postponed til TUESDAY! Oct 28      7-8pm   – location tbd
Check https://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Current_events for details.
The November Monthly meeting will be at NYU on Nov 18th
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Internet Freedom Bash
On Thursday Oct 23 freepress are holding the 1st Annual Internet Freedom Bash at the Maritime Hotel.
Star-studded line up. Tix are $50. Details are on https://isoc-ny.org/?p=446
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Evan Korth’s Computers and Society @ NYU – Fall 2008 Series – co-sponsored by ISOC-NY
Three sessions have been held thus far.
Tim Westergren – The Future of Music
Fred Benenson – Brief History of Copyright
Fred Benenson – Creative Commons & Free Culture
Supposedly John Perry Barlow is up next but he is yet to confirm. After that we have
11/5/2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Douglas Rushkoff
11/9/2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lawrence Lessig
11/19/2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Andrew Rasiej
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One Web Day 2008
Video of the Sep 22 Washington Square event is now available at
It needs to be transcribed in English, so that it can be translated to other languages. Volunteers?
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City Council Hearings
There have been two hearings of interest recently. Both were somewhat contentious, and are
well worth reviewing as the issues continue to reverberate.
well worth reviewing as the issues continue to reverberate.
White Spaces
or more particularly
(note the first segment is listed last)
.nyc
(audio only)
.nyc hearing (webcast)
On Friday, October 17th, Council Member Gale A. Brewer (D-Manhattan), Chair of the Technology in Government Committee, held a hearing regarding the City’s interest for a unique .nyc Top Level Domain (TLD).
White Spaces Hearing (webcast)
Takes a little while to start.
This is the first couple of hours only. Full video & audio and speaker list to follow.
Why Broadband Matters (video)
Here is video of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing ‘Why Broadband Matters‘ held on Sep 16 2008.
ISOC-NY events September 2008 – OneWebDay plus more
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The next few days are filled with ISOC-NY-related activity, including OneWebDay, Software Freedom Day, the initial lecture in Evan Korth’s Computers and Society series, and last but not least, ISOC-NY’s September monthly meeting.Video of NYC Broadband briefing
Diamond Consultants was hired by the New York City Economic Development
Corporation to determine the breadth of the digital divide in New York City
and develop programs and initiatives to provide greater digital inclusion for
all residents. Chris O’Brien, a Partner in Diamond’s Public Sector practice,
detailed Diamond’s findings – and its recommendations for the City’s next
steps – to the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee at City Hall on July 30 2008.
Afterwards members of the Committee and the public made comments.
Cerf, Zittrain & Lessig talk @ Google
Back in March, introduced by Vint Cerf, Jonathan Zittrain and Larry Lessig gave a talk at Google’s Washington DC offices. Google has, possibly encouraged by its Viacom harassment, just posted the video up on YouTube. About 58 minutes in, after Zittrain has given his book synopsis – with which I trust we are all now familiar, Lessig, drawing on earlier ‘Z theory’, gets into the meat of exactly the privacy issues recently highlighted by Viacom’s actions.
Personal Democracy Forum under way
The Personal Democracy Forum takes place today & tomorrow at Lincoln Center. The theme this year is “Rebooting The System”. Your best chance of catching a live stream is via mogulus (may not work in firefox) or the ‘scobleizer’ link below.