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Notes from the Berkman Luncheon with Ned Gulley & Karim R. Lakhani

For the rest of the summer, I’ll be in the office on Tuesdays, so I won’t be able to attend the Berkman luncheons in person. However, I tuned in today via live webcast (oh the wonderful innovative potential of technology) and took down notes. The discussion about borrowing and novelty in collaboration hit home a [...]

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Notes from Berkman Luncheon w/ Anne Balsamo

As soon as I saw a derivative of the term “culture” in Anne Balsamo’s bio linked to from the Berkman website, I knew I wanted to attend this luncheon. Ironically, there was only mention of cultural reproduction (though it’s apparently present in her book, soon to be released), with much of the discussion focused around [...]

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Notes from Luncheon with Walter Bender (Sugar Labs) @ the Berkman Center

I RSVP’d to the Berkman Center on a whim a couple of days ago, and I am glad that I went to this luncheon (the first of hopefully many for me). Sitting in a room of thirty people, with Walter sitting at the head of the mahogany table, talking calmly, solidly, professorly, I felt like [...]

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