Archive for Michael Cervieri

  • Michael Cervieri

    Michael Cervieri is a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. On Twitter, he’s @bmunch.

  • Clogged Arteries, Broken Pipes and the Battle for the Internet

    Video: Tim Wu, law professor at Columbia University and leading network neutrality advocate, Tim Kerr, Campaign Director for SaveTheInternet.Org and Kieth Clemens, General Counsel for Verizon, discuss and debate their respective positions before a rapt, sometimes raucus audience at a network neutraility meeting in New York City.

    Let the food fight begin.

  • Firefox 2 and Javascript with Brendan Eich

    Video: Javascript creator and Mozilla Corporation CTO Brendan Eich discusses the release of Firefox 2 and its relationship with Javascript during this Ajax Experience keynote address. Also included are discussions about virtual machines for JavaScript, both open source and in browsers. And, of course, some thoughts about what this might all mean for the future

  • The Once and Future Web with Chris Wilson

    Video: Chris Wilson remembers remembers the Web in its infancy and takes us on a voyage through its development to the present day in this presentation at the Ajax Experience in Boston. He’s worked on Web browsers since 1993 and worked on Microsoft’s Web platforms for the past 13 years.

    Here he takes us through his days of posting a page in the mid-90s on GeoCities about how to create a digeridoo, and how he still receives monthly emails.

  • Buy Now, Content = Free: Fred Wilson on Information in the Digital Age

    VIDEO: In our cut and paste age, record companies sue eager college kids for their irrepresible downloading. Movie studios follow suit. Meanwhile, publishing companies scratch their heads wondering how they profit when digital ones and zeros are ripe for the taking. Flatfiron Partners VC Fred Wilson asks: Does Content Just Want to be Free?

  • The Israel Lobby: Does it Have Too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy?

    Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.
    At root are passages like the following:

    …the thrust of US policy in the [...]

  • Transcript – The Israel Lobby Debate

    The following transcript is from “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have Too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy?” The debate was conducted by the London Review of Books and filmed by ScribeMedia.org. Those interested in viewing the debate can do so here. Reprint permissions can be directed to ScribeMedia via email at pubs [at] ScribeMedia [...]

  • The Godfather of Ajax: Jesse James Garrett

    A note to the uninitiated: Jesse James Garrett gets a lot of love.
    He won a 2006 Wired Magazine RAVE Award in technology; his 2002 book, The Elements of User Experience, moved beyond its original Web design audience and was adopted in software development and industrial design; and he’s credited with creating the first visual [...]

  • The Life of Brian

    We had the good fortune of being invited by the South Asian Journalists Association to come up to Columbia University and film Brian Williams’ keynote address to their annual convention.
    He spoke about his lifelong journey to the network chair, how the news is covered and whether the iPod is leading us back to a concept [...]