Web 2.0 Training

Internet law prof Jonathan Zittrain likens the Internet to a bumble bee -- a fat and furry creature that by its very design should not be able to stay airborne -- but "mysteriously, somehow the bee flies." He attributes the web's functioning partly to its creators -- a trio of "goofballs" who were "getting together to do something fun" -- and partly to a community of geeky strangers who keep it humming -- tamping out hacker attacks  and watching out for the neighbors.

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Here’s our man in another web appearance, talking at Stanford about tweenbots, “Internet eyes”‘ and the East Coast/West Coast mind split.

Our Internet guru is a much quoted man: He opines in the New York Times on a new form of computing and gets quoted in the San Jose Mercury News in  a story about online activists taking aim at government censors. And he argues on the MIT Technology Review that Twitter “has provided a new building block for the social Web.” In Emily Parker’s Tweets of Freedom, she suggests government can play a role in “empowering Chinese netizens” and quotes Zittrain as suggesting that the U.S. “could start with some basic funding for the kind of ‘science and technology innovation that gave us the Internet to begin with.’ “