Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

• Freaking out that it’s September
  • j freaked out
• Update on Lisa’s interest in getting political candidates blogging
  • (Note: the link goes to a Yahoo! Group message that may require a login.)
  • Lisa sent a letter.
• Calendars on blogs
  • GR: showed iCal
  • LW: wants something like del.icio.us, a social bookmarking tool, doesn’t want to click on a bunch of links, wants things to come to her
  • GR: Jon Udell wrote about some shared metadata stuff with del.icio.us
  • LW: shared categories, like funny, can improve retrieval, allow people to subscribe to things they want, get info they need
• Michael’s statement of purpose for the group
  • (The above link goes to a Yahoo! Group e-mail, which may be restricted to group members.)
  • we need to do more to attract new people
  • special sessions for new bloggers, both on and off Harvard’s server
• Trackback: why does it work so well between Harvard’s server and some others, but doesn’t work at all in other situations?
  • because
  • It has to do with how the different servers are configured. It doesn’t always work and if often won’t work.
  • JSJ: if a server administrator doesn’t like trackback, that could be a problem if it’s not implemented properly.
    • trackback spam is a problem, so some servers might be configured to keep trackbacks out
    • trackback interoperability is a problem
    • Manila is sensitive; it might pick up trackbacks from other Manila servers, but not too much else
    • JSJ recommended checking Harvard’s server settings
    • Let’s have a trackback interoperability night! JSJ suggested a number of platforms we should investigate.