This week’s Berkman Buzz

• Ethan Zuckerman unpacks ‘Kony 2012’ [link]

• The metaLAB introduces the world to Biblio, your new library friend [link]

• The CMLP explores the First Amendment issues surrounding the Fluke/Limbaugh incident [link]

• Mako Hill encourages greater communication about DRM [link]

• Aaron Shaw reviews a new paper on “wiki surveys” [link]

• A Global Voices Guide to SXSW [link]

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This week’s Berkman Buzz

• Ethan Zuckerman explores civic video [link]

• Berkman & the MIT Center for Civic Media examine “truthiness” [link]

• danah boyd announces The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series [link]

• Mayo Fuster Morell reports on the OWS Forum on the commons [link]

• The Internet & Democracy Project releases new paper on Internet’s impact on Russian politics, media, and society [link]

• Zambia: Ban Ki-moon Calls on Nation to Respect Gay Rights [link]

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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Dan Gillmor writes about Steve Jobs’ legacy:
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• CMLP posts a guide to citizen journalism from #OccupyWallStreet:
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• Ethan Zuckerman recaps Ramesh Srinivasan’s talk on Digital Diversity:
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• Herdict discovers an interview with an Internet censor:
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• Wendy Seltzer discusses how to keep Android open:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Slovakia: New Draft Law Threatens Internet Freedom”
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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:

* 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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