Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

I’m still sick, and j is not available to lead this week’s meeting, so with my extreme apologies, I’m canceling blog group for this week.

However! You can still get your weekly dose of Berkman & geeky socialization, by joining the greater Berkman community Friday evening for Information Superhighway:

Harvard Free Culture and the Internet Company LLC Proudly Presents…

INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY ONE
A Gathering Of Boston Tech Like It’s 1997
October 24, 2008, 8 pm - Midnight
Berkman Squared, 50 Church Street, Cambridge MA

Boston is full of cool Internet people. Why aren’t they meeting each other?

INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY is Boston’s monthly party gathering hackers, activists, artists, designers, nonprofits, startups, academics and general geekery to hang out and connect with one another.

*No agenda, no networking, no presentations. Just free beverages, food, ideas and cool people.
*Best of all the price is free, like your first 1000 hours of AOL.
*Extra Beenz For Wearing Some Vintage Web 1.0 Gear

With Featured Guests and Organizations:
- Jonathan Zittrain (Berkman Center) (http://futureoftheinternet.org/) (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>)
- Mel Chua, SJ Klein, Seth Woodworth (OLPC) (http://laptop.org/)
- Beth Coleman and Kevin Driscoll (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) (http://cms.mit.edu/)
- Nate Aune and Jon Pierce (Betahouse) (*http://tinyurl.com/42w4pt)
*- Christina Xu (MIT Media Lab, extrACT Project)
- Diana Kimball  dianakimball.com <http://dianakimball.com>)
- Steve Garfield (Boston Media Makers) (http://bostonmediamakers.wordpress.com/about/)
- The Barbarian Group (http://www.barbariangroup.com/)
- Brett Stilwell (Pecha Kucha Boston) (http://pechakuchaboston.org/blog/about/)
- Alec Resnick (Nublabs) (http://www.nublabs.org/)

Apologies for the late notice, but I’m making the executive decision to cancel tonight’s meeting. We had an open agenda scheduled, and my ongoing health issues (nothing horrific!) mean I’m too tired to lead a meeting tonight. j and I are working on some good topics for future weeks, and as always welcome your suggestions!

Erica

Kristen Taylor from the Knight News Foundation will tell us about the Knight News Challenge. Below is the email she sent to the blog group discussion list with details about the meeting.

“The Knight News Challenge  http://newschallenge.org) is in the third
year of a program that gives away $5MM a year to innovative online
projects that support online news, community discourse and social
media in specific local communities.

Find out how to apply, share ideas, and talk with the Knight
Foundation Online Community Manager (Kristen) and previous News Challenge
winners from the area this Thursday.

The contest closes November 1st, and you can work through your idea
before applying in the News Challenge Garage incubator site
(http://garage.newschallenge.org).”

A special thanks to Lisa Williams for coordinating this meeting!

Upcoming meetings & events:

• Want a cool internship? Berkman is hiring!
• At some point, we should take advantage of Berkman’s RockBand set and have a music party in lieu of a normal meeting.
• It’s getting to be time to have another dim sum gathering, too.
• See the Berkman Calendar for other 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.