Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

• Introductions
• Starting at 5:30 p, D�a de los Muertos: Day of the Dead at the Peabody Museum at Harvard
• Topics
  • j’s going to give a presentation on politics and blogs that is related to a seminar she’s leading at the Boston Center for Adult Education on November 14.

  • Blogging the Vote in 2006: A Celebration of Political Bloggers was on Monday 10/30 5pm Berkman Center. Stay tuned - Berkman is percolating an election day liveblogging project with some of the bloggers we met at this event!
  • Gaping Void
    • see the video!
  • TechSoup: Seven Blogging Tools Reviewed
  • How to Pick Blog Software
• 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