Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Agenda

• Introductions
• The new Thursday Meetings blog  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/) and feeds  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/f…, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/c…)
• Guests: Jack Hodgson and Bryan Person will lead a presentation on Twitter. Mike Walsh will be the official “host” for the meeting.
  
• On May 10, we plan a WordPress tutorial/info session. If you know your WordPress, please join us to help!
• On May 17, Shimon and j will talk about a project they’ve been working on.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Montreal, May 1-4
• 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:

• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
• j here: I love hidden notes in the agenda. Sure, I can do Skype.
• Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
• Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
• A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
• David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
• Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
• and who can address the new rules around it!
• Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
• What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

Agenda

• Introductions
• The new Thursday Meetings blog  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/) and feeds  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/f…, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/c…)
• Guests: Hasty & Max of Povo.com, a new map mashup with reviews, tagged searches, and other neat stuff
• “Povo is a wiki-based, collaborative tool that lets everyone in the community come together to create, evolve, and maintain city-wide and local neighborhood knowledge.”
• Neither Erica nor j can attend a meeting on May 3. Maybe someone else can run group in our absence, someone can organize dinner, or the group can have a week off.
• On May 17, Shimon and j will talk about a project they’ve been working on.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Media in Transition 5 at MIT this weekend
• David Weinberger (Berkman fellow & blog group member!) is having a book party (talk & reception) for his new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, Monday 4/30.
• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Montreal, May 1-4
• 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:

• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
• j here: I love hidden notes in the agenda. Sure, I can do Skype.
• Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
• Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
• A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
• David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
• Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
• and who can address the new rules around it!
• Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
• What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

Some of you who have content on the Manila server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for the last four years have been wondering what’s next. Wonder no longer. The server administrators posted a timeline. People have through the day on Wednesday, April 18, to get their content. After that, the URL is changing and people might lose editorial access to their weblogs. After April 25, the server will no longer be accessible via the Web. The admins will back up all of the files.

So, um, get your stuff, like, oh, NOW.

(reposted with permission from j’s scratchpad)

Special Note: If you have content on the Manila blog server, you must migrate to the WordPress server or otherwise backup your content before Wednesday, April 11, when the Manila server will be shut down.

Agenda

• Introductions
• The new Thursday Meetings blog  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/) and feeds  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/f…, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/c…)
• SpotStory with Aron
• Jon on comment management responsibility(?)
• Someone on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy(?)
• We can’t use the conference room on April 19. Let’s figure out what to do instead: dinner, fun outing we blog, contradancing, take a night off, etc.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Montreal, May 1-4
• 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:

• 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
• 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
• Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
• j here: I love hidden notes in the agenda. Sure, I can do Skype.
• Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
• Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
• A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
• David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
• Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begby to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
• Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
• What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
• you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

The Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog has migrated to the Harvard WordPress server because of the recent nastiness leading to the Manila server’s demise.

The weblog has a new URL:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/

The new feed URLs are:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/feed/

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/comments/feed/

This weblog is the new home of the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog, the former Manila blog used by the blog and social technology group that meets at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, on Thursday nights at 7 pm.

The former address of the group’s weblog is http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thursdaymee…. Please note the new directory name of this weblog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/.

The new feed URLs are:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/feed/ for posts and

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/comments/feed/ for comments.

Special Note: If you have content on the Manila blog server, you must migrate to the WordPress server or otherwise backup your content before Wednesday, April 11, when the Manila server will be shut down.

Agenda

• Introductions

• j and Erica could tell the sordid tale of the Manila server and its downfall, if anyone is interested
• j is arriving late, but can talk about blog spam
• Twitter is getting a lot of buzz lately. Is anyone here using it? Does it mean anything for blogging? Is it all a bunch of hype?
• Doc Searls may drop in - if so, maybe we can persuade him to tell a bit about his VRM (vendor relationship management) project
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.

• 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:

• 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
• 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
• Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
• Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
• Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
• A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
• David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
• Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begby to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
• Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
• What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
• SpotStory
• you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
• 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:

• IRC chat

• Join us at 23 Everett St!
• live notes