A weekly meeting for people interested in weblogs, newbie to guru.
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet includes The Blogging of the President: 2004 in their New This Week list. Several bloggers who are regulars at the Berkman Center’s Thurday night meetings, including Christopher Lydon and Jay McCarthy, work on this excellent political resource. LII is a project to catalog useful Web sites with a searchable database of their selected sites. They’re known for finding quality resources.
Thanks for the pointer, Garrett.
Dave’s agenda is elsewhere.
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Like past and future agendas, if you have an item you’d like on the agenda, comment, get blogging privileges from Jay , or contact him or the other j.
The next social outing for food will be February 1 at 1 pm at an Allston restaurant called Grasshopper (or r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r). The cuisine is vegan Vietnamese and Chinese. The address is 1 Beacon Street. It’s a few blocks from the B Line Green Line and is close to several bus stops, too. Parking might be tricky. Bring your appetite. If I get a headcount in advance, I might try to make a reservation. I’ll add a few extra spots in case anyone who doesn’t RSVP shows up.
Addendum 1/25: The cheesecake really is amazing.
Addendum 1/26: A group of us will meet at 12:30 pm in front of the token machines in the main terminal of the Harvard Square station to ride the 66 bus over. It picks people up from the corner of Eliot Street and JFK Street near the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center (one block towards the river from the Bombay Club, where our group eats a lot) and stops very close to Grasshopper. A bus leaves Harvard Square around 12:40 and arrives near the restaurant 12:50ish. (The restaurant is near the sharp turn at Union Square on the bus route map.) Let me know if you would be interested in going over to the restaurant together. It’s probably easier to park near Harvard Square than to park near Grasshopper. (Meters are free on Sundays.)
Addendum 1/31: There’s a reservation for 10 people at 1 pm. There’s room for a few extra people.
Addendum 2/1: Seven people came for lunch. We talked about, well, politics and blogging. And no one had vegan chicken feet.
I posted instructions for enabling TrackBack on a Harvard-hosted blog a while ago on my own blog.
Sun suggested that we begin including “how to” and help stuff on the Thursday Meetings blog. Since one of the initial functions of the Thursday night meeting was to provide a forum for people with support questions, it seems like a good idea (as long as we don’t get overwhelmed).
Here are the instructions for people blogging on Harvard or MIT’s blog server or using Manila to share their subscription lists via Share Your OPML.
RSS Winterfest is a free, Webcast conference this Wednesday and Thursday, January 21 and 22, 2004, about RSS and the future of syndicating Internet content. Speakers include industry experts like our very own Dave Winer, Scott Johnson of the RSS search engine Feedster, Robert Scoble of Microsoft, and Jon Udell of InfoWorld. The schedule indicates events last from about 11:30 am EST until about 3:30 pm each day.
Addendum 1/21: We heard some really interesting things about RSS at the conference this morning. j posted notes about Dave Winer’s talk. There are no plans to host people at Berkman for day 2. If that makes you very sad, bug j to see if she has space for multiple people to tune in.
Addendum 1/22: Links to transcripts and other information about the sessions are on the right side of the RSS Winterfest homepage.
Some notes are on Scripting News, including an agenda that is very different than that which is posted below.
Some reminders about audio for the Webcast: it’s difficult to hear an yone when music is playing (except Dave ’cause he projects his voice well). Actually, it’s difficult to hear m any people because there’s only one mic. There might be a movement afoot to get more mics. If you’re speaking at the meeting, it’ll help peopl e listening to the Webcast if you can project your voice, especially if you’re the kind of person who talks qui etly normally or you’re sitting far from the mic on the t able. I suppose, if you don’t want to be heard over the Internet, speak softly. (No o ne may see the big stick you carry, either, because there’s no video with the Webcast.) And if you’re giving a URL or visiting a Web site, saying the URL slowly will help those elsewhere follow along.
Like past and future agendas, if you have an item you’d like on the agenda, comment, get blogging privileges from Jay , or contact him or the other j.
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Back by popular demand!
Several bloggers will be gathering at Chau Chow City, 83 Essex Street in Chinatown, for dim sum on Sunday, January 11th at 11 am. Look for Sun. (In this cold weather, everyone’s looking for him.) j’ll be there if she’s not chasing candidates in New Hampshire.
Details about dim sum and the restaurant are in a previous entry, so I’m not repeating them here.
Report: Trio for dim sum with lots of exciting eats, like meat ball congee with preserved egg, chicken feet, jellyfish, steamed shrimp rice foon, warm sweet honey bean custard, and those yummy yellow spiral thingies that taste like custard. Two ventured onto a frozen lake afterward.
Sometimes it’s good to think ahead.
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Some people in the group (Michael, j, & Bob) were over at MIT helping Andrew with a training session. Four people came. A good time was had by all and someone might have learned something about blogging.
j wants to get on the agenda for the 22nd to share her RSS article.
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I justed created a story to serve as a place to put the various presidential candidate events the Berkmanites have been to.
If you want to add yours feel free, if you want me to, let me know.
Addendum 1/6 by j: USA Today printed an article about citizen journalism that focuses on bloggers covering politics. It mentions some of our Thursday night friends and their efforts.
