This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Andrés Monroy-Hernández explores the link between information technology and economic growth:
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• Doc Searls explains the needs for cars on the Net:
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• Dan Gillmor reviews Amazon’s new Kindle Fire:
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• The Citizen Media Law Project praises Al Jazeera’s embrace of Creative Commons:
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• Benjamin Mako Hill on science as dance:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Zambia: Netizens Start Countdown to 90 Day Change Promise”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Mayo Fuster Morell publishes a new paper on “The Unethics of Sharing: Wikiwashing”: link

• Andrés Monroy-Hernandez considers terminology discussions as probes: link

• David Weinberger interviews LibraryThing founder Tim Spalding: link

• Dan Gillmor discusses what the new Facebook means for net freedom: link

• Stuart Shieber explores peer review: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Uganda: Anti-Museveni Author Freed After Five Days”
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My podcast interview of Yochai Benkler about his excellent new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan has been posted. Yochai makes brilliantly (of course) a case that shouldn’t need making, but that in fact does very much need to be made: that we are collaborative, social, cooperative creatures. Your unselfish genes will thoroughly enjoy this book.

And, Joseph Reagle has promulgated the following email about his excellent, insightful book that explores the subtleties of the social structures that enable Wikipedia to accomplish its goal of being a great encyclopedia:

I’m pleased to announce that the Web/CC edition of *Good Faith Collaboration* is now available. In addition to all of the book’s complete content, hypertextual goodness, and fixed errata, there is a new preface discussing some of the particulars of this edition.

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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Incoming fellow Vivek Kundra reflects on his last days at the White House:
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• Wendy Seltzer talks Google, Motorola, and patents:
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• Ethan Zuckerman interviews Sasha Costanza-Chock about his plans as a new Assistant Professor of Civic Media at MIT:
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• Changes at Chinese search engine Baidu unexpectedly affect traffic to Herdict:
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• Hal Roberts explores the relationship between web traffic locality and Internet control in China:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Dominican Republic: Rita Indiana, ‘Projects Like Mine Owe a Lot to Social Networks and the Internet'”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz

• Christian Sandvig’s assigned new media fast raises questions

• Doc Searls urges Microsoft not to sell Bing

• The MIT Center for Civic Media interviews Jesse Shapins of MetaLAB at Harvard

• The OpenNet Initiative reports on the first Internet users to be charged under France’s three strikes law

• Dan Gillmor talks Google+ one month in

• Weekly Global Voices: “Zambia: Facebook Group Leads 2011 Poll Debate”

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The weekly Berkman Buzz:

• Herdict explores new circumvention system Telex

• Harry Lewis discusses Massachusetts’s plan to install license plate reading cameras

• Dan Gillmor explores the US response to the News Corp phone hacking scandal

• Andrew McAfee reviews Google+

• Weekly Global Voices: “Join Us for a Discussion on Mobile Phones for Citizen Media”

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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Summer Berktern Andres Lombana Bermudez posts 12 short video interviews with Hyper-Public participants:
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• Clay Shirky advocates for chaos in the new news environment:
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• Herdict showcases its new features, including its interactive map:
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• Dan Gillmor explores online identity ownership in the context of Google+:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “TED Talk by Global Voices Co-Founder Rebecca MacKinnon”:
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The weekly Berkman Buzz:

* Citizen Media Law Project on Vermont’s amendment to its open records law.
* William McGeveran considers individual privacy and election law.
* Peter Suber breaks down the open access and copyright situation.
* OpenNet Initiative watches Australia turn on Internet filtering.
* Weekly Global Voices: “Togo: Fragile Truce Emerges After Five Weeks of Student Protests“

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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Dan Gillmor reviews Google+:
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• The Citizen Media Law Project explores the future of big journalism:
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• Ethan Zuckerman considers metrics for the civic impacts of journalism:
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• Herdict explains Google’s new Transparency Reports:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Global Voices Podcast 1: Who do we believe online?”:
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• John Palfrey [twitter:jpalfrey] liveblogs the Future of Law Libraries conference: link

• Derek Bambauer [twitter:dbambauer] discusses what new Internet censorship in the UK means for the US:
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• Berkman intern Joyce Neys [twitter:jn314] reviews the recent Hyper-Public Symposium:
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• Dan Gillmor [twitter:dangillmor] asks if ICANN is necessary: link

• Ethan Zuckerman [twitter:ethanz] , the new head of the MIT Center for Civic Media, asks four questions about civic media:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “China: Attack on a #netfreedom Blogger”: link

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