Eric Saltzman,, executive director of the Berkman Center, says Lydon is helping the Center launch a website about law and technology issues. For the site's debut, Lydon will discuss the contents of the site in his online broadcast.

Saltzman also says Lydon is helping the Center with it research on "distance learning," a subject which Lydon has discussed on "Connection."

Dan Markel `95, a research associate at the Berkman Center who works near Lydon, says Lydon uses the space at the Berkman Center to produce his show, which is broadcast on the web at another location. He says the opportunity for people at the Center to interact with Lydon is a mutually beneficial arrangement.

"We get good [public relations] from him and he gets resources and interesting people to work with," Markel says.

And though Markel says that Lydon has not had much interaction with law school students outside the Center, he says the interaction with Berkman affiliates has been productive.

"We have a workspace designed for serendipitous innovation," he says. "The hope here is that if you can gather interesting people together, interesting ideas will come out."

Law school spokesperson Michael A. Armini says that Lydon's workspace at the Berkman Center is just an informal arrangement...it's not a commercial venture."

Steiner says there is nothing unusual about HLS visitors who do not officially contribute to the school.