Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Truth. I first set foot on Harvard soil (well, a brick sidewalk) in October 2003, while walking to the first BloggerCon. The event was hosted by Dave Winer, then a fellow at what’s now the Berkman Klein Center. I knew no more about Harvard, I suppose, than any other normal American. But, strangely, I felt at home there, as if I somehow belonged. Three years later, I was a fellow at the Center, following in Dave’s footsteps. That fellowship lasted four years, and the project I started there is still going. So are two of its offspring: Customer Commons and MyTerms (IEEE P7012). I still love Harvard, but less for any of those reasons than the simple fact that it matters in countless good and important ways. Larry Lessig visits some of those in Veritas: We are still here. Pull quote: “Veritas is not just the motto of America’s oldest university. It is an ideal that each of us, whether Red or Blue, teach our children every day of our lives. It must now become the motto of the movement to make America great again.”

Check your dependencies. If you depend on iCloud for anything—and if you have a Mac plus an iPhone and/or an iPad, you do—iCloud has problems right now. This was explained to me by an AppleCare guy about an hour ago, and the problems are still there. (For example, trying to copy photos from Photos to a folder on my Mac causes an error message.) Just letting ya’ll know. It’ll clear up.