2007/05/03 Proposed Agenda
Agenda
- Introductions
- The new Thursday Meetings blog (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/) and feeds (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/feed/, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/comments/feed/)
- 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
- 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.
- 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!
- This week:
- IRC chat
- Join us at 23 Everett St!
Upcoming events of interest:
Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
Eat:
During the meeting, participate via:
Berkman Center Events & Webcasts » Blog Archive » This week at blog group: Twitter
May 2, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
[…] This week’s guests are Jack Hodgson and Bryan Person, who will lead a discussion of the new blog phenomenon surrounding Twitter.com. Twitter is a sort of “mini blog,” where users update multiple times daily with short, succint entries. Jack and Bryan are new media experts who have also presented on Twitter at BarCampBoston. The full agenda is available on the Blog Group blog. […]
Co-presenting on Twitter with Jack Hodgson at Harvard’s Berkman Center tonight
May 3, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
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