Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Clay Shirky is speaking at 6 p, so we will not meet at Berkman at 7 p in order to attend his talk. The details: Berkman@10: Clay Shirky on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” 6:00 PM, Austin West Classroom, Austin Hall.

On March 6, we hope to have some folks from Somerville Voices talk about what they’re doing.

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.

There’s a lot happening and a lot of miscellaneous stuff we could discuss. There have been a few news articles this week about gender and the ‘net, like The Boston Globe on women and site design and The New York Times on teenage girls as ‘net users. Berkman expanded on this article. Did anyone attend the women and tech conference at Harvard? If so, fill us in. Liana at StopBadware runs a women in tech ad hoc committee. And, of course, Randall occasionally draws about gender and the ‘net, like Pix Plz. That opens the door for me to mention the raunchy video If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments.

Friday is Pecha Kucha at the Harvard Design School. Doors at 6:30 p, presentations beginning at 7 p.

There’s an FCC hearing at the Law School on Monday. Details below.

Next week, Clay Shirky is speaking at 6 p, so we will not meet at Berkman at 7 p in order to attend his talk instead. The details: Berkman@10: Clay Shirky on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” 6:00 PM, Austin West Classroom, Austin Hall

Upcoming events of interest:

• Friday, 2/22 is Pecha Kucha at the Harvard Design School. Doors at 6:30 p, presentations beginning at 7 p.
• Monday, 2/25: Berkman@10: The Berkman Center Hosts the FCC Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM with special session following, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall; Reception to follow the Berkman session in the Pound Hall 212, John Chipman Gray Room
• 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.

The weather is oh so lovely this week, and this Thursday is Valentine’s Day. By request from several regular members, we’re canceling this week’s meeting so everyone can spend time with their favorite people (or websites!).

Brett, Erica, and j are working on lining up some great speakers and topics in the coming weeks. (Including another visit from the cool folks at the GSD, a liveblogging excursion to Toscanini’s, Somerville Voices, and the newly-launched OpenMediaBoston!) Please stay tuned! As always, if you have suggestions or people you can arrange to bring in, please do!

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.

Join Silona Bonewald for a discussion about transparent government. Maybe we can learn how EGovBarCamp last weekend went, too.

Silona Bonewald is visiting from Austin Texas. This gal has her hands full from founding the League of Technical Voters - a 501c3. The league is focused on motivating techies to be more involved with the political process. She is also working on the Transparent Federal Budget with Bill Bradley and Jimmy Wales. (And would love to talk to y’all more about that project.) She helped bring Maker Faire to Austin. She lobbied successfully on muni WiFi for Texas and is currently working on a project to bring wifi to Austin.

http://www.leagueoftechnicalvoters.org

(PS–The time stamp on our weblog has been off by an hour. j supposedly fixed it.)

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Brett, Erica, and j are working on lining up some great speakers and topics in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned! As always, if you have suggestions or people you can arrange to bring in, please do!

Upcoming events of interest:

• David Weinberger leads another Web of Ideas on Monday, February 11, at 7:00 PM in Griswold Hall Room 110. The discussion will focus on the changes in the music industry, and will feature musician bradsucks as David’s guest. RSVP to rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu.
• 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.