Berkman Buzz: December 20, 2013
Current Berkman People and Projects 2013-12-20
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Law Lab releases new video on Nevada's Silverflume
In most states the process of starting a business is encumbered by paperwork. Dozens of forms that need to be physically filled out and filed with state agencies. With the help of the Law Lab, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Nevada has launched a one-stop e-portal for filing and operating a business.
From "The Digital LLC: Nevada's Silverflume" About the Law Lab
Jeff beautifully summarized our year's work at the DMLP. MT @DMLPBerkman: 2013 at the Digital Media Law Project http://bit.ly/1dW4lK0 —Andy Sellars (@andy_sellars)
John Kelly analyzes Rouhani's Twitter followers
The explosion of social media services such as Twitter, which allow researchers to pull data on who is following whom and where has led to another explosion — of social science that seeks to map out social media relationships, and figure out how they influence (or are influenced by) politics, economy and society. One of the people doing interesting work in this space is John Kelly, chief data scientist at Morningside Analytics.
From the Washington Post, "Five key questions – and answers – about Iran’s social media influence" About John | @apidictionist