Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

We are not gathering on December 22 or 29. We’ll next meet on Thursday, January 5, 2006. Please join us then to help us make some plans for the new year. We’ve got some terrific ideas about potential speakers and activities. Help us decide what to do!

Happy and safe holidays!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about any of us being in the news. It’s not like we’re not out there somewhere.

Lots has been happening with Global Voices and Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. They recently attended the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia, where Internet filtering in that country became a hot topic.

Derek Slater has been in the news quite a bit related to the collaborative research on playlists.

The Boston Globe’s article on citizen journalism discusses Lisa Williams’ work with H2Otown.

The Boston Phoenix tried to one-up the Globe with a piece on video blogging. It includes Steve Garfield, of course.

• Introductions
• Instead of doing a regular meeting at Berkman, let’s go eat!
  • Meet at Berkman at 7 if you don’t know how to find Grendel’s Den

  • Meet at the restaurant at 7:30. We’re eating at Grendel’s Den, in Harvard Square on Winthrop St., just off JFK and right by Staples.
• Eat:
  • Did anyone go out to dinner last week?
  • This week: Grendel’s! Where they have beer!

Upcoming topics:

• 12/22 and 12/29: no meetings
• 1/5: brainstorm for the spring

During the meeting, participate via:

• we’re NOT going to try this live audio thingie again because we aren’t meeting at Berkman

• no IRC chat, either