Dr. David Weinberger

Internet guru David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was keynote speaker at Research Week 2010. He discussed the impact the internet is having on students and academics with Bill Handy, OSU professor and social media expert.

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[dweinberger]

Thanks for the doing the interview. But I do want to note that I am not a professor at Harvard. I'm a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. That's not a faculty position.

Anyway, thanks to Bill Handy and OSU for inviting me to the event and for this video.

-- David Weinberger

[Adley116]

If our world is adapting and changing into this digital era, old school methods will become less looked at and less useful. I agree with the aspect of the conversation that encourages evolution as a part of connecting people on a more wide-spread level.

[bradulrich]

Parts of this remind me of Chris Anderson's view in his book, Free. He says, because it is so cheap now, to waste processing power, memory and information in order to generate the most ideas by allowing everything to be published and letting the best rise to the top.

Love "intellectual and academic life is moving onto the internet. It's not because it's trendy. It's because it connects people." That's tweetable.

[b273120]

Dr. Weinberger is right on target with his comments. The 'old school' mentality simply won't work in the Digital Age.

Social Media (or Web 2.0 or 'the interwebs' or whatever you want to call it today) is all about connecting. People, places, events, ideas, ... Everything. Waiting two years for "ground-breaking research" to enter the general population is ridiculous. At the rate things change and move, this piece will no longer be ground-breaking nor relevant two years after completion.