Jonathan Zittrain’s latest… Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the cannier thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. It’s a call to arms. Before it’s too late, he says, we must make sure [...]

An old neologism! Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms – new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even my mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that [...]

Here are a few more thoughts on new words gleaned from life online — gathered at a Berkman Center conference on The Future of the Internet! Josh Marshall (credit: NY Times) Joshua Micah Marshall, who founded the influential site Talking Points Memo discusses the term “blogger”, a now old neologism that may have outgrown its usefulness, at [...]

Berkman Center Neologisms are defined as new words or phrases (or new uses of a word or phrase). And what better place to find them than at a gathering of netizens (itself a neologism) steeped in the new world of the “net”. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, [...]

Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That means it’s our job to form colonies in hot climates, for years [...]

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