Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Posted by j, 3/16/05 at 5:57:49 PM.

03/17/2005 Meeting Notes

These notes are a best effort.

Blog your corrections and commentary.

Attendees:

• EG: Erica George, whose blogiversary is tomorrow, March 18th
• AW: Amanda Watlington
• MW: Mal Watlington Online Conversion & Beyond, Who Really Showed Up for Work Today
• KD: King Davis
• j: j Baumgart
• SR: Shimon Rura
• AH: Ann House
• MW: Mike Walsh
• SG: Steve Garfield (via IRC, briefly)
• PRW: Peter R. Wood, who blogs with his wife at prwdot.org He and his wife blogged separately before they got married. After they married, they combined their blogs.
• JW: Jon Winsor
• BI: Bill Ives
  
• DF: Deborah Elizabeth Finn the Cyber-Yenta

• KEM: Kellan Elliott-McCrea
• JA: Josh Ain
• DC: David Clark
• MD: Madhu Dahiya
• JA2: Jenny Attiyah
  
• LG: Louis Godena

• JS: Jennifer Stoner, who’s looking for a job

Audio!!!!!!

Agenda

Proposed agenda:

• Skip the meeting and listen to Sam’s group rehearse in Sanders Theatre
• Wear green or get pinched.
  • j pinched EG
• 6:30 pm: work on audio for the meeting
  • we did and it works
• Blogging 101
• Yahoo! Group membership requests
  • AW: Is our policy stated somewhere? Shimon’s right.
  • LW: Few issues 1) Do we need a policy? 2) What should it be? 2a) Should we put restrictions on behavior before someone signs up? 2b) Should we put restrictions on behavior now?
  • Is it a free-for-all now?
  • No, Jay screens people. He does a great job now. Rah rah, Jay!
  • Do we need to make people say what their blogs are?
  • DF: Information Systems Forum, the list I moderate, has policies regarding people’s behavior.
  • LW: Flame wars happen on blogs less than they do on e-mail discussion lists.
  • DC: People have to work to get to comments on a blog. With a discussion list, messages pretty much land in your lap.
  • K: Blogs are distributed. People have to work pretty hard to find something/someone to flame.
• Combatting trackback and comment spam
  • BI: Someone commented telling me not to use TrackBack because it encourages comment spam.
  • AW: Maybe we need blog systems that recognize people, like having people on a friend’s list in an e-mail program.
  • AW: Why should I blog if I can’t use it to interact with others? What’s the point if no one is going to tell me I’m wrong?
  • (Some general discussion of how good people’s ability to detect inauthenticity is)
• DC: What do I have to do to join the group?
  • Nothing! Simply attend the meetings.
• JW: Will blog for free books
  • So will Jay McCarthy
• What else?