Other law professors who have been on The Colbert Report include our Richard Ford and Harvard's Charles Nesson.

Read more about Jonathan Zittrain here and read his blog here.

Jonathan Zittrain was also on The Charlie Rose show on May 13, 2008 and our library holds a DVD of that program.

Update:  Jonathan Zittrain's interview on The Colbert Report can be seen here.

Also, Concurring Opinions notes that law professor Neal Katyal was also on the Colbert Report with JZ and includes links to both appearances.  Neal Katyal has been on the show before too; see here and here.

From Concurring Opinions:

Mike Madison points out that Jonathan Zittrain was on Colbert last night. But so was Neal Katyal. Is this the making of an unofficial showdown? Will academic stature be determined by who can roll with the Colbert? Who offers truthiness? Probably not on both counts.

Given my tech bent, I lean towards Zittrain. Nonetheless, I honestly think both did rather well and enjoyed seeing them navigate the oddity of a comedy interview.

The digital generation gap

Berkman Executive Director John Palfrey posits the digital revolution's most enduring change is neither the new business models nor Google's search algorithms: It's the massive generation gap between those who were "born digital" and those who were not.

Palfrey's forthcoming book, Born Digital, is an offspring of the center's extensive work on "digital natives," children who were born into and raised in the digital world.

"We're talking about the future behavior of human beings on the Internet," says Palfrey, who is head of the Harvard Law School Library. "Digital natives use technology to either be more productive or distracted. The challenge is making the most of (their skills)."

His teacher created a reflective group with a few of his students in order to demonstrate that poker has got educative properties. Especially because according to him poker allows pupils to train themselves on probabilities calculation. He thinks that this could be a way to divert youth from on line video games which don’t learn anything to the players. Some parents unions have already warned the US government about this research project.

Charles Nesson is a famous law lecturer at Harvard and ask for poker to be tought from secondary school. He is doing deep research on the benefits of poker for pupils. He explains that poker is a game which could help students to improve in several topics and gather knowledge in a funny way.

Probabilities, balancing risks, money managment, strategy. These are the competences that poker could develop among young students. Mr Nesson also said that poker could be taught to future lawyers and business men in universities in order to learn them how to dissimulate their emotions and their feelings.

But for now it seems that this project will remains an idea as loads of parents and politics complained about poker at school. They are affraid that this will only replace the online gaming addiction by an other one which could cost them far more money.

The video is from the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, whose founder Dr.  Charles Nesson will be the guest speaker at the Manhattan Libertarian Party's May 12th meeting.

"....Now, it's time to mention the killer app.

When universal WiFi or its equivalent is available and consumers can
take the Internet with them then it's all over for radio. Ditto for
satellite radio.

That is, of course, assuming that terrestrial radio broadcasters don't
have an epiphany soon and decide to get into the Internet radio
business. Ditto for satellite.

So far, the excuses are pretty lame.

Radio is a fading industry thanks to the misdirected major
consolidators. They've lost the next generation as they migrated to
their mobile devices and the Internet. So what does that say? Well, when
they are not fighting Arbitron's People Meter or when they stubbornly
try to sell HD radio as the next big thing, they make excuses.

Can't pay the music licensing fees to stream our terrestrial signals. It
would be prohibitive. No, it would be suicide -- not to stream the
signals. Pay the fees and get your programming where the next generation
is -- online."

WHEW. And Jerry hasn't even seen the Resco Radio application I just downloaded on my Motorola Q Smartphone. More on that in a future post.