03/18/2004 Meeting Notes
Posted by j, 3/17/04 at 12:25:54 PM.
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- These notes are a best effort.
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- Webcast Details
- This will be webcast
- And recorded for later on RealMedia
- Chat back on #bloggercon!!
- RO will be speaking for IRCers
- Attendees
- SZ: Sooz
- JB: Jessica Baumgart
- TG: Tom Griffin
- RO: Ryan Overbey
- SR: Shimon Rura
- VN: Vernica Downey
- DW: Dave Winer
- SN: Sun Liang
- CJ: Critt Jarvis
- AG: Andrew Grumet
- JN: John Norvell
- RH: Rick Heller
- MW: Mike Walsh
- First Time
- Rupert and Annette, visitors from Toronto
- Annette, a teacher, wants to use blogs to communicate between teachers, students, and parents
- Web site
- Rupert and Annette, visitors from Toronto
- JS: John Stafford
- from Rhode Island
- The Next America
- Is interested in applying RSS to the military, thinks he needs something different than the RSS that’s out there now
- likes it because it doesn’t necessarily download what you’ve already downloaded and other reasons
- BG: Ben Gross
- Ph.D. student in library/information science at the University of Illinois
- has a fellowship at University of California-Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems
JM: Jay McCarthy
- SF: Seth Finkelstein
- Single
- MB: Mary Berkmanite – Doing researchy stuff
- S: Stephen
- PS: Pito Salas
- BA: Bob Atkinson
- DO: Dermot O'Rourke, from IAP
- FT: Fons Tuinstra
- From Shanghai
- CBIZ.CN
- AS: Aaron Swartz
- HB: Hank Barry
- R: Rebecca
- Guy from MIT missed his name – From Japan and Switzerland
- Ash – Friend of Jim Moore's
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- MM: Matt May
- G: Gregor
- LM: Larry Mils
- JH: Jeffrey Henning
- JiM: Jim Moore
- TA: Tracy Adams
- CL: Christopher Lydon
- JH: Jack Hodgson
- SJ: Scott Johnson
- RH: Rick Heller
- SP: Steve Pomeroy
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- BloggerCon II
- Aggregators + Infrastructure
- AG wants to do a session on RSS
- BitTorrent: allows for the downloading of large objects, way to share files peer-to-peer; users download portions of files, then share
- AG wants a way to do it with enclosures to spawn a download when someone isn’t at his computer more
- puts BitTorrent URL in the enclosure field, AG programmed the aggregator to recognize it as a special case, the aggregator launches BitTorrent instead of just doing a download
- Legal Torrents is an example
- DW hopes it will encourage people to do more with video and audio files
- AG wants to do a session on RSS
- Poster session
- DW brought this up
- suggestion for Sunday?
- academic or commercial?
- AG said having a computer to do demos would be better
- SR described it as an opportunity to meet many different people as they come by to view your work; you talk until their hoarse
- RH?: “It seems to me to be very un-blog like.”
- Party
- Saturday night
- 8 pm until midnight or something
- room with wifi
- attendees hang out and mingle with their laptops
- party after day 1 at the last BloggerCon didn’t work well ’cause it was so short
- the party would not be dinner; people would eat first, then come to the room
- JN: how do laptops fit into this?
- DW: Bloggers always have laptops
- Adam Curry’s session
- Dave needs volunteers
- In particular, he would like some moderators to monitor IRC and the Webcast and knock down any commercials
- Aggregators + Infrastructure
- Mooter, a beta search engine
- try looking for java
- We watched part of Kung Fu Kitchen
- Dinner at the Cambridge Common
