Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

By now perhaps, you’ve already read about Jay McCarthy’s house burning down Sunday morning. The important thing is that he and his family were able to get out safely. He might be posting updates about the situation on his blog, makeoutcity.

Lisa Williams set up a PayPal account to help Jay and his family.

For those of you considering buying him books to help him rebuild his collection, he does have an Amazon Wish List (search under his name to find it).

Perhaps Jay will tell us other ways we can help.

Blogger’s House Burns Down …

Proposed agenda:

• The innerworkings of aggregators and RSS

• Democratic National Convention press credentials for bloggers

• Eat
  

  • Harvard House of Pizza last week
    

There was no Webcast again.

Notes:

• Bob’s notes
• Andrew’s notes

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.

Proposed agenda:

• The innerworkings of aggregators and RSS

• Democratic National Convention press credentials for bloggers

• Berkman Thursday Meetings community on Orkut?
• Eat
  

  • Harvard House of Pizza (after we couldn’t get into three other restaurants)
  • Cambridge Common last week
    

There was no Webcast.

Notes:

• j blogged some notes

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.

Proposed agenda:

• Dave’s trip to Europe

• What’s next?
  
• Eat
  

  • Cambridge Common this week
    
  • Pho Pasteur last week
    

There was no Webcast.

Notes:

• j blogged some live notes

  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.

Two of our bloggers who sing have concerts this week.

Shimon sings with New Century Voices, which has two concerts this week, Tuesday, May 4 at 8 pm and Friday, May 7 at 8 pm at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, and another on Sunday, May 16 at 5 pm at King’s Chapel in Boston. Shimon emphasizes that the group only sings briefly during these three events.

sj will be singing this weekend during Harvard’s Arts First. The concert he refers to is Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at 4:30 pm in Memorial Church on Saturday, May 8. Another group sj sings with has a concert at 8 pm on Friday night at Sanders Theatre.

Addenda 5/4: Shimon shares the program (.doc) for the May 7th concert. His group sings last, so perhaps there is time to catch sj first.

5/9: j sort of made it to all four concerts. No comment on which was better, though.