Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] okay. Good afternoon. On Bradley Graham, coowner ofcs politics and prose along with my wife, and our behalf of everybody here at the gaithersburg book festival, thank you so much for coming. This is of course the seventh annual festival here in gaithersburg. This is the fifth Consecutive Year the politics and prose has been your as the official bookseller. We really want to commend the gaithersburg staff and all of festival sponsors and volunteers for working so hard, especiallyy hard this year given the weather to make today possible. And thank you all really for coming out. You are all a very hardy bunch. A few quick administrative notes. Qu that would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. Second, if you are tweeting today, please use hashtag gdf come and third would really wan your feedb
Them and who has even written and implement chill book about this world that we live in. And even written and worldntial book about the that we live in. If i am not mistaken, even worked for one of the first ethan worked for one of the first. Com enterprises. Ofis also a Founding Member Global Voices online, a popular Nonprofit Network of bloggers, citizens, and journalists. In 2007, he joined the inaugural wikipedias eyes reboard. Added to the list of stop global bloggers. It is my pleasure to present ethan zuckerman. Please join me in welcoming ethan to rice. [applause] mr. Zuckerman thank you so much. It is wonderful to be here in this beautiful state on this gorgeous campus. Want to tell you about where i from and how that informs some of the work that i am doing at the moment. I teach at the m. I. T. Media lab which is one of the stranger academic institutions in the world. Behind the media you have to be future on inventing the and you have to be studying something that no one el
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