Open Media Review

Update on Harvard, new blogs to follow

PC Haring on Twitter recently asked me what happened with the Harvard vote, and then I blushed as a sloppy blogger who didn’t follow up on the news (yeah, but I don’t think the New York Times followed up on it either!). So this morning I went looking for the information about the vote and discovered from The Chronicle of Higher Education that it did indeed pass.

Stuart M. Shieber, a professor of computer science at Harvard who proposed the new policy, said after the vote in a news release that the decision “should be a very powerful message to the academic community that we want and should have more control over how our work is used and disseminated.”

I’m thrilled at this. Obviously. But I’m also thrilled that in conducting the search to find this out, I came across a couple of blogs I need to add to my RSS reader:

• Derivative Work- the blog of copyright and information law attorney (and feminist science fiction fan! Yay!) Laura Quilter. You know you’re getting to be a real open media geek when you find yourself becoming a fangirl to people who specialize in copyright law.
• The Web Difference- A class blog for Harvard Law’s “The Web Difference” (2008) by different profs, as far as I can tell (the About page is the classic WP default).
• JoHoTheBlog- Writer and marketing consultant David Weinberger’s blog.