This panel looks at the challenges, both legal and journalistic, facing journalism ventures that seek to build and maintain online communities, from article comments to community forums and blogs. Issues include the role of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, dealing with and protecting anonymous commenters, and concerns regarding defamation and privacy. Patrick Carome – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Bill Densmore – Consultant to Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at University of Missouri and co-founder of CircLabs Inc. Eric Goldman – Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law Jeff Howe – Contributing editor at Wired.com and author of Crowdsourcing Barbara Wall – Vice President/Senior Associate General Counsel, Gannett Co. David Ardia (moderator) – Director, Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University This panel is part of the Online Media Legal Network’s 2010 conference “Journalism’s Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities” held at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 9, 2010. Find more information here: www.omln.org

Host and “professor” Brett Erlich leads a hilarious how-to course highlighting the best, worst and weirdest internet groups that congregate online. current.com VIEW more Viral Video Film School & SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Channel here… www.youtube.com

Overview of tools for measuring online communities.

Clip 1/6 Speaker: rodent Many years of hosting BBS’s, ISP’s, websites, game servers, forums, irc networks, and online communities. I’ve accrued experience dealing with the negative influences of DoS/DDoS, botnets, trolls, flooders, spammers, phishers, and the whole lot. I want to talk about the challenges, and victories. For more information go to:events.ccc.de

Naveed Usman speaks at Northwestern University’s Articulab on the topic: Designing For Online Communities. Part 2 of 6.

Naveed Usman speaks at Northwestern University’s Articulab on the topic: Designing For Online Communities. Part 1 of 6.

Loic hosts a the forum topic “Online Communities: Add a Friend Accept or Decline” at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. This is the full length, slightly edited, version of this dinner.

This panel addresses the role that law and the legal profession can play in journalism’s transition to the online world. Topics include reporters’ shield bill protections for online journalists, the effect of recent developments in First Amendment law, media reform and government policy, the ethics of new journalism models, and access to public information and documents. Practicing journalists and journalism professors give their own perspective on how the legal profession can best support new journalism efforts. Robert Bertsche – Prince Lobel Glovsky & Tye LLP Lucy Dalglish – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Jon Hart – General Counsel, Online News Association; Dow Lohnes PLLC Dan Kennedy – Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University Josh Stearns – Program Manager, Freepress.net and SavetheNews.org Cameron Stracher – Co-Director, Program in Law & Journalism, New York Law School Phil Malone (moderator) – Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University This panel is part of the Online Media Legal Network’s 2010 conference “Journalism’s Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities” held at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 9, 2010. Find more information here: www.omln.org

Scott Olson, VP of Marketing at iovation, explains how online communities such as social networks and internet dating sites can combat fraud and abuse through device reputation. By focusing on the reputation of the user’s computer and sharing evidence of fraudulent devices with clients worldwide, iovation helps businesses proactively expose fraudsters and abusers in real-time.

Anne Kennedy, Managing Partner & Founder of Beyond Ink, interviews Candice Faktor, creator of ourfaves.com and GM of toronto.com, before her maps and local search optimization workshop at SES Toronto 2008. Candice talks about her experiences in building large-scale sites with aggregated user and professionally-developed content, and locally-based information provided by locals.