Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Posted by j, 3/3/05 at 7:04:04 PM.

03/03/2005 Meeting Notes

These notes are a best effort.

Blog your corrections and commentary.

Attendees:

• LW: Lisa Williams
• EG: Erica George
• MM: Matt May
• MD: Madhu Dahiya, ChaiTeaLatte
• MW: Mal Watlington Online Conversion & Beyond, Who Really Showed Up for Work Today
• King
• WK: Wendy “I’m marrying blogging” Koslow
• j: j Baumgart
• SR: Shimon Rura
• AH: Ann House
• MW: Mike Walsh
• LS
• v
• MF: Michael Feldman
• PRW: Peter R. Wood (via IRC)
• CJ: Critt Jarvis
• BS: Brett Stilwell
• TJ: Tim Jarrett
• JW: Jon Winsor
• Elliott

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

Proposed agenda:

• Blogging politicians–skipped because the person who wanted to talk about it isn’t here
• Harvard ABCD Software Development working group & blogging API talk
  • BS: Is there an interest in co-sponsoring lectures? Maybe before a Thursday event?
  • MF: How long do they last?
  • BS: usu they’re as long as they need to be
• Blogging 101
  • wiki
  • Citizen Schools: blogging presentations, internships for high school students
  • Lisa’s on deck for talking about her podcast video next week
• Do bloggers need credentials? — skipped ’cause no one was here to talk about it
• Envisioning the future of weblog software, take 2
  • Old project
  • SR’s look at it
  • MF: Of course, the best ideas are featured in Frassle
  • comments from Envisioning the Future of Weblog Software
  • LW: What’s next? We need people to let us know what they want their software to do. [and something else I totally missed]
  • SR: We need something on the Web for people to look at
  • MF: No because we don’t want to influence people’s thoughts
  • EG: No, we should have a Web page about it
  • MM: better ways to upload files, more elegant ways to handle RSS enclosures
  • LW: one of the problems with using a service with lots of third-party pieces is that something could almost always be broken. That was my experience with Blogger, so I switched to WordPress.
    
  • someone needs to handle middleware better

  • LW: We own blogtips.info. Let’s do something with it.
• Other proselytizing?
• Frassle alpha 9a demo?
  • Using Frassle’s content studio to build custom aggregators and RSS feeds
  • SR gave a demo of Frassle and its updated studio
  • WK: It’s cooler than My Yahoo!
• The art exhibit we need to blog
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Bombay Club again last week