David Weinberger

There’s a good explainer by Eva Galperin of Twitter’s new policy on censoring tweets within countries that demand it, At BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin points to one particularly relevant fact: this applies to countries whwere Twitter is establishing physical offices. ... (more)

Berkman Buzz

This week’s Berkman Buzz Jonathan Zittrain hosts Computers Gone Wild [link] Yochai Benkler discusses the Megaupload indictment [link] Zeynep Tufekci argues that Twitter’s new tweet blocking policy is good for free speech [link] Wayne Marshall explores nationalism and tradition in Congolese hip-hop [link] Ethan Zuckerman liveblogs the launch of David Weinberger’s “Too Big To Know” [link] Weekly Global Voices: Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie [link] ... (more)

Forum d’Avignon Intro and Second Session

The Forum d’Avignon is an annual meeting of invited guests, heavily from the French culture industries, with a handful of Internet people sprinkled in, and interesting international representation. It is a high end conference for sure: beautiful hotels in beautiful Avignon, a welcome reception in the historic and ornate Town Hall, dinner in the Palais de Papes — the Palace of Popes, a visit from Pres. Sarkozy in a couple of hours. The sessions themselves are held in a long hall lined with seats facing one another. The overall topic this year — the 4th annual Forum — is “investing... (more)

Draft: What’s new about social media?

I’m on a panel about “What’s Next in Social Media?” at the National Archives tonight , moderated by Alex Howard, the Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, and with fellow panelists Sarah Bernard, Deputy Director, White House Office of Digital Strategy; Pamela S. Wright, Chief Digital Access Strategist at the National Archives. It’s at 7pm, with a “social media fair” beginning at 5:30pm. I don’t know if we’re going to be asked to give brief opening statements. I suspect not. But, if so I’m thinking of talking about the context, because I don’t know what social media wi... (more)

How to embed a WordPress admin page

I’m posting this so I’ll remember, and in case someone else is googling around for it. I have a little editor I wrote in javascript for creating blogposts. When I’m done editing, it loads the transmogrified text into an iframe that contains the WordPress /wp-admin/post.php page (which is the one you create posts with). Except that it stopped working recently, giving me “X-FRAME-OPTIONS” errors. A little research showed that x-frame-options are set at the server to prevent people from capturing your pages in their own evil iframes (e.g., inserting your blog posts into their spam... (more)