sj, one of the main Boston area Wikimania organizers and a very active Wikipedian, is going to talk to one of the ABCD groups at Harvard on Wednesday (7/12) at 3:45 pm in ELF 2 in Lamont Library.
Berkman Fellow and noted journalist Dan Gillmor is working on a citizen journalism gathering on Monday, August 7, following Wikimania. He posted some basic information about it yesterday.
These pictures of Special Libraries Association Annual Conference attendees with some parrots prove conferences can be fun as well as provide valuable networking and learning experiences.
Wikimania registration costs increase on Monday, July 10.
Volunteers might get a discount.
Disclaimer: I am now in charge of wrangling volunteers for Wikimania, among plenty of other tasks.
Addendum: One of my readers pointed out that the discount registration deadline moved to July 15.
"Beginning July 16th, admission costs $100 per day (still $240 for the full pass), […]
Don’t forget that the cost to register for Wikimania increases Monday, July 10.
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Speaking of reading, check out what this librarian is doing to help provide books to children in Africa.
I guess I haven’t mentioned BookCrossing here yet. A few of my avid reader friends have told me about it several times. The idea behind it is that it’s a book exchange. People get books and read them, then ‘release’ them so others can get them–almost like a walless, informal library.
Anyway, someone just walked into […]
The Washington Post has a bit about their news researchers showing how they actively contribute to the entire news organization and not only increase what the organization can do, but the quality, too. One of the anecdotes shows the value of backgrounding everyone interviewed for articles. Another mentions the work of Derek Willis, an admired […]
Bob Stepno, a journalism professor from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who often talks about blogging and new technologies in his journalism classes, is this Thursday’s (7/6) guest at the blog and technology group at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at 7 pm. I know he and I talked about what he’s […]
One of my friends convinced me to try Adium, an instant messaging program for Mac OS X that’s compatible with many other IM services. He really likes it because it does encrypted chat. I like the duck. Uh, seriously, though I really like the way it logs chats. When I start chatting with someone, I […]