Last Sunday, I traveled to Boston to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. This year, the program is being held at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. To say it’s a excellent experience is an understatement – a sentiment I think every attendee echoes. I’m most impressed by my colleagues, a collection of brilliant researchers from all over the world. We’re engaging with new and challenging ideas all day, and talking across culture and distance, which makes this a tremendously valuable experience. (To my advisers, thank you!)
If you’re interested in following along with the program, the folk at Berkman have set up an aggregator of student/faculty blogs, which you can find here. A number of students are doing an amazing job of liveblogging, and there are also pictures and other goodies there. I must say that I departed for Boston with hopes that the SDP would inspire and challenge me as I progress towards a dissertation, and it has done that exactly. I hope to write and reflect a little more as the program progresses, though I think its more likely that dispatches will sort of slow down for the next two weeks.
Now, on a random tangent, somebody spammed my blog with all of the spoilers of the new Harry Potter book today. I haven’t tracked them down to see if they were actually true, but there’s a special place in hell for that spammer. That’s just wrong.
Tags: conference, OIISDP, travel
A new Harry Potter book? The new H/P movie just came out – I think the whole H/P movement is getting stale and redundant (but I admit I don’t read it nor have seen any of the movies).
As far as spammers; welcome to the free internet perils: anyone can wreak havoc on any blog or site it seems! To bad isn’t it?
Good luck on your dissertation!