Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

• Blog meetup
  • RF: Unstructured socializing
  • JD: No wireless
• Josh and Shimon talk about interpersonal content management and Frassle
  • more
  • slides
  • SR: intro to Frassle
    • people shouldn’t blog about cats
    • They should follow Joey and Wendy instead
  • JA: We’re trying to reduce information overload by linking similar blogs together
    • “A second-hand opinion is better than no opinion.”
    • JS: Aren’t you adding to information overload by making better connections?
      • JA: Helps people filter what people might want
    • JA: talked about his cat Euclid
    • SR: generating and republishing content is important
    • JA: Frassle publisher
    • JA: “I’m an amatuer sumo wrestler. If you see me in the loin cloth, you’ll know it.”
    • JA: categories are important, interrelated categories link people to related feeds, things that might be of interest
    • SR: increasing the durability of online reputations
      
    • DW: how do they differentiate comments from other blog posts?
      • SR: don’t really know
      • DW: master-servant relationship to comments is important
      • SR: threads are important, not sure he should go back to making comments something special
      • JA: anytime anyone blogs about something in the blogosphere, it’s a comment whether it’s posted on their blog or not
      • DW: he sometimes wants to own the comments; he’s not trying to say “Put old-style comments back in,” he wants them to say something else
      • SR: watch our demo in a few minutes
    • JA: demos Frassle
      • JA: categorizing info will save it for later
      • MF: it won’t fall off your aggregator later?
      • SR: Yes, eventually
      • PS: something about Frassle sucking content in
      • JA: Yes, it does
    • JD: something about pulling the URLs out of posts
    • JA: shows threading and all that cool stuff
    • LW: sees the value of having related posts within a work group, important to know who else in the group is linking to the same information
    • JA: Publisher
    • SR: blogging on multiple blogs is clunky, with the Publisher, it’s easy to blog on one backend and post to multiple blogs on the front end
    • MF: can the blog reader reorganize the content on your blog
      • SR: not easily. s/he’d have to set up a publisher page to do it. We’re working toward that.
    • MF: files? like photos?
      • SR: it’s on the list, but not at the top yet
    • SR: not trying to build something like Wikipedia, authority through links instead and people can set up their own categorization/organizational scheme.
    • LW: If Google can do something, can’t Frassle do it better?
    • MF: Is Frassle just a giant echo chamber?
      • SR: that’s a concern
  • Taiwanese dim sum in Newton on Sunday, 9/26, Chung Shin Yuan, 183 California Street? They open at 11:30 am. Meet in the square at 10:45 am-ish or be at the restaurant around 11:20 am.
  • j sent the Harvard University Gazette Calendar a notice for our meetings for the listings.