Big Think Live Blogging: "Internet: Ideas at the Frontier"

Sean McManus
09 March, 2009

Big Think will be live blogging from Harvard Law School today, and it's a seminar you wont want to miss.

Entitled "Internet: Ideas at the Frontier," the seminar hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, will feature ideas from media guru Jeff Jarvis, Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton, and Google News chief, Josh Cohen, alongside Harvard internet scholar, Jonathan Zittrain and Harvard law professor, Terry Fisher.

We invite you to follow this exciting examination into the future of news on the Web—as well as submit questions—via our Twitter Feed at Big_Think from 5-7 p.m. today, Monday, March 9.

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