Archive for October, 2006

2006/11/2 Proposed Agenda

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j - October 30, 2006 @ 5:22 pm · Meetings

  • Introductions
  • Starting at 5:30 p, D�a de los Muertos: Day of the Dead at the Peabody Museum at Harvard
  • Topics
  • Upcoming events of interest:
    • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff (mainly, lunches).
    • Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • November 9: No meeting
    • November 16: Rebecca MacKinnon on what’s happening with China and the Internet (and anything else she wants to throw into the mix). This is our last blog group with Rebecca before she moves to Hong Kong to be a professor!
      • What?!? Congrats!!!!! We’ll miss you and the wonderful things you bring to blog group & Berkman.
    • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
    • Adam and something about maps
    • Brett on Ubuntu
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week:

    • Last week: Cambridge Common

During the meeting, participate via:

  • Still no webcast but sometime in the not too horrifically distant future Erica is getting trained on the system in the new conference room.

  • IRC chat

2006/10/26 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - October 26, 2006 @ 10:57 am · Meetings

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center is now at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we use for our meetings is on the second floor, room 202. We will make every effort to keep the door downstairs open. If you are locked out of the building, please call 617-495-7547 (Berkman main line) if you have a cell phone, or yell up to us (we’ll leave the windows open). We’re hoping to have this situation resolved with a callbox in the near future.

  • Introductions
  • Topics
    • Topic: How do we decide what we like and dislike, trust and don’t trust online - in service providers, in bloggers we read, in friends? What are your personal standards?

    • Topic: Second Life (preliminary discussions, what do we want to learn more about, what can folks here share)?
  • Upcoming events of interest:
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • November 2: ?
    • November 9: Maybe we can overview the election in MA through blog lenses
    • November 16: Rebecca MacKinnon on what’s happening with China and the Internet (and anything else she wants to throw into the mix). This is our last blog group with Rebecca before she moved to Hong Kong to be a professor!
    • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
    • Adam and something about maps
    • Brett on Ubuntu
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week:

    • Last week: nobody had time to go to dinner

During the meeting, participate via:

  • Still no webcast but sometime in the not too horrifically distant future Erica is getting trained on the system in the new conference room.

  • IRC chat

Celebration of political bloggers, Monday 10/30

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egeorge - October 25, 2006 @ 5:37 pm · Social Events

Please join us for a celebration of bloggers, honoring the citizen journalists chronicling the Massachusetts 2006 governor’s race.

What: Blogging the Vote in 2006: A Celebration of Political Bloggers
When: Monday, October 30, 5pm
Where: Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor

With each election cycle of the 21st century, more and more citizen journalists have been getting in on the act of covering campaigns and
the stories that swirl around them. The race for governor of
Massachusetts in 2006 has been covered by dozens of bloggers — as well as by journalists who are writing blogs in addition to their video, audio, and print stories in mainstream media outlets. The role that these citizen journalists are playing has been the topic of intense interest among pundits, academics, candidates, and their campaigns alike. One thing is for certain: these citizen journalists, and mainstream journalists experimenting with new media, should be celebrated for their role in making public the discussion about who should be the next Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Please join us at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for a
celebration to honor all those who have been blogging the vote here in
Massachusetts in 2006. Whatever party, perspective, or new medium you
call your own, or however you get your news about this election, we’d
love to meet you and raise a glass to all those whose hard work has been making the 2006 campaign here in Massachusetts more vibrant and exciting than ever before.

Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can be sure there’s plenty of snacks & drinks for all .

2006/10/19 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - October 19, 2006 @ 3:16 pm · Meetings

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center is now at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we use for our meetings is on the second floor, room 202. We will make every effort to keep the door downstairs open. If you are locked out of the building, please call 617-495-7547 (Berkman main line) if you have a cell phone, or yell up to us (we’ll leave the windows open). We’re hoping to have this situation resolved with a callbox in the near future.

  • Introductions
  • Topic: Various. This is a good night to bring your own ideas and questions and random neat news of interest to the group.
  • Upcoming events of interest:
    • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff (mainly, lunches).
    • Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • October 26: ?
    • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Rebecca MacKinnon on what’s happening with China and the Internet - current plan is for November 16
    • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
    • Adam and something about maps
    • Brett on Ubuntu
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
    • Eat:

      • This week:

      • Last week: Smile Thai again, because we missed it that much!

    During the meeting, participate via:

    • Still no webcast but sometime this month Erica is getting trained on the system in the new conference room.

    • IRC chat

    • 2006/10/12 Proposed Agenda

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    egeorge - October 11, 2006 @ 11:32 am · Meetings

    Don’t forget: the Berkman Center is now at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we use for our meetings is on the second floor, room 202. We will make every effort to keep the door downstairs open. If you are locked out of the building, please call 617-495-7547 (Berkman main line) if you have a cell phone, or yell up to us (we’ll leave the windows open). We’re hoping to have this situation resolved with a callbox in the near future.

    • Introductions
    • Topic: Placeblogger.com, Lisa Williams’s placeblog project
    • Upcoming events of interest:
      • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff (mainly, lunches).
      • Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.
    • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
      • October 19: ?
      • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
      • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
      • Rebecca MacKinnon on what’s happening with China and the Internet - current plan is probably mid-November
      • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
      • Adam and something about maps
      • Brett on Ubuntu
      • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
    • Eat:

      • This week:

      • Last week: Smile Thai

    During the meeting, participate via:

    • Still no webcast but sometime this month Erica is getting trained on the system in the new conference room.

    • IRC chat

    2006/10/05 Proposed Agenda

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    egeorge - October 5, 2006 @ 12:28 pm · Meetings

    Don’t forget: the Berkman Center is now at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we use for our meetings is on the second floor, room 202. We will make every effort to keep the door downstairs open. If you are locked out of the building, please call 617-495-7547 (Berkman main line) if you have a cell phone, or yell up to us (we’ll leave the windows open). We’re hoping to have this situation resolved with a callbox in the near future.

    • Introductions
    • Topics:
      • Lisa’s placeblog project (will also get its own wholly devoted session soon) - see sneak preview image here

      • Isn’t Joey’s blog post about meeting Wendy at Bloggercon very sweet? (Happy birthday to Wendy!)
      • Jay Rosen interviewed by Slashdot
      • Renaming the blog group: Berkman Salon? New Media Group? Let’s not rehash too much, but it really is time for a name change…
        • j here: Or maybe it’s time for our group to have a name in the first place …
      • The Manila server no longer supports any e-mail features. j will talk about what’s happening.
      • Last week’s discussion kind of rocked.
    • Going to dinner at/by 8pm since it’s Erica’s birthday and she says so :D.
    • Upcoming events of interest:
      • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff (mainly, lunches).
      • Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.
    • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
      • October 12: ?
      • Lisa’s placeblog project
      • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
      • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
      • Rebecca MacKinnon on what’s happening with China and the Internet - current plan is probably mid-November
      • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
      • Adam and something about maps
      • Brett on Ubuntu
      • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
    • Eat:

      • This week: Erica is thinking of Smile Thai…

      • Last week: Indian food from India Samraat (courtesy of Berkman Cyberscholars)

    During the meeting, participate via:

    • Still no webcast but sometime this month Erica is getting trained on the system in the new conference room.

    • IRC chat

    Erica in The Boston Globe: Deleting Friends from Online Community Sites

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    j - October 2, 2006 @ 1:30 pm · We're in the News!

    On Saturday, Erica, one of our favorite blog group leaders, was prominently featured in a Boston Globe article about the awkwardness of deleting friends from social networking tools. Nice to delete you: It’s easy to make friends on MySpace. Now how do you lose them? by Johnny Diaz might still be available online for free for another day or two.

    You go, Erica!

    Erica in The Boston Globe: Deleting Friends from Online Community Sites …