It was a pleasure podcasting with Jonathan Zittrain at Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Jonathan is visiting professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. We discuss his new book The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It and important work underway at the OpenNet Initiative. The provocative thesis underlying his book is arriving at a significant time in history of the Internet. Thanks Jonathan!

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I met a wonderful Berkman Center fellow earlier this month, Victoria Stodden, at the Harvard Business School-MIT conference on open and distributed innovation. Victoria will be doing interesting work with the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center … she stopped by and shared her thoughts at the conference. Good luck Victoria!

SOURCE: OpenNet Initiative – Global Internet Filtering

Jonathan Zittrain on The Charlie Rose Show

Jonathan Zittrain and I also touch base in the podcast about Herdict Web Project.

It’s great to catch up with Milton Chen and learn about his experience with the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and the exciting efforts at the George Lucas Educational Foundation. We discuss his Fulbright research, Glow Scotland, and Mr. Lucas Goes to Washington.

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I found my visit awhile back at Skywalker Ranch for Internet summit insightful and enjoyed conversations with Foundation staff and colleagues in the Silicon Valley.

Cool photo of summit attendees in front of Skywalker Ranch main house.

“Lucas, a filmmaker and chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that Congress should expand and modernize its twelve-year-old program of telecom discounts to schools and libraries. To achieve his vision of Edutopia, in which students direct their own learning while teachers nurture their curiosity, he said, the ultimate goal should be to make these connections for every school and library not just more affordable, but free.” More here…

Another year podcasting at da Vinci Days Festival. Tom Hager is our keynote speaker this year. Levi and Brock (Linus Pauling Middle School students) joined me to learn more about Ava Helen and Linus Pauling through Tom’s biographical work. Oregon State is home to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers…drop by Valley Library and peruse this amazing collection or visit online. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling met in Education Hall room 201 and became soul mates for life. We talk about their chance meeting in the podcast.

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Courtesy of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Special Collections Oregon State University. Linus Pauling received two Nobel Prizes – one for chemistry and another for peace.

Steve Lawson from the Oregon State Linus Pauling Institute talks about the work of Linus Pauling.

Jake Tenpas is our podcaster with da Vinci Days Grammy-award winning band BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet.
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Bob Dylan, upon listening to BeauSoleil during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was asked “what do you think about BeauSoleil’s music?” Dylan replied “That’s my kind of music!”

Michael Doucet – Violin, Guitar, Accordion, Mandolin, Vocals
David Doucet – Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Breaux – Accordion
Billy Ware – Percussion
Tommy Alesi – Drums
Mitch Reed – Bass, Fiddle, Banjo, Electric Guitar

Bestselling author Richard Florida was keynote speaker at Greenlight Greater Portland summit “Pursuing the Future: The Outlook for Greater Portland.” I enjoyed podcasting with Richard and learning about what’s on his mind these days and hearing his admiration for the City of Portland.

Place + Happiness = Portland Prosperity, Richard Florida, The Oregonian
Author Richard Florida to Headline Greenlight Greater Portland’s Economic Summit

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Great podcasting with Joe Born CEO at Neuros Technology International. Joe shares his learning in creating open source hardware and coming soon is our podcast with Lars Bo Jeppesen at Danish User-centered Innovation Lab.

Neuros Podcast

Check out Neuros innovation efforts with “nTube” video browser.

Neuros Technology International

Open sesame, The Economist Print Edition Jun 5th 2008
A good example is the OSD, a “media fridge” made by Neuros Technology of Chicago which acts as a repository of video from DVDs, camcorders, cable boxes and so on. Neuros made the OSD’s technical specifications available, and a group of users then wrote software to add a new feature that many users had requested: the ability to stream video from the OSD to another device across the internet. To access this new feature, users simply had to download a software patch. “It’s harder for my device to get antiquated,” says Aaron Crum, an OSD user, “and I don’t have to buy another $200 device next year.”

What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You The New York Times