Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

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
  

• Join us at 23 Everett Street!