Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

• Atlas: www.fmatlas.com

• From Rick: “The idea is to give publishers/bloggers an easy way to create maps — and maps that their readers can contribute to. Here’s an example of one map that has user contributions:
  http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2007/01/duboce-park-atlas-and-digital.html#links

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.

• MIT’s IAP offers cool computer classes
• MIT Mystery Hunt is this weekend
• Berkman & MIT CMS & Yale ISP are putting on Beyond Broadcast 2007 on February 24. You can now register: http://www.beyondbroadcast.net
• 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:

• Jan or Feb: Ted Demopoulos on his new book “What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere”

• Jan or Feb: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• 2/22: Andy Carvin is back in town! He’ll have lots to talk about, and is bringing a friend, Steve Clift, who organized the Minnesota gubernatorial e-debate in November at www.e-democracy.org.
• 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
• you?
• 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:

During the meeting, participate via:

• Still no webcast (do we even want one every week?? or just special stuff?)

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!