Agenda
Introductions
Sooz’ idea about salon-style meetings. Dave’s description is on Scripting News.
Chris’ new blog: blogging the present, politics, and media. He’d like to design a blog for a conversation around open source politics.
What’s the purpose?
What should he include?
How can w e design a blog to draw everyone who’s interested in politics in?
How can we get [...]
The notes are now in my stories section.
Maybe the size of books really does matter. Here’s an interesting post about the latest Harry Potter book, which I’m currently reading in my spare time.
Big moves for some blog servers.
Anyone want to go to the Halloween Organ Recital at Busch Hall? It’s at midnight. Should be good.
Imagine: a mayor recognizing a journalist!
October 17th is John Lenger Day, according to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. John is one of the assistant directors of this office, one of my editors, and someone I regularly work with on projects. He also really appreciates libraries and librarians and has had me talk to his [...]
Someone posted this link to the Spokane Spokesman-Review’s traffic blog in a request for information about other news organizations with traffice or transportation blogs. It’s not at all what I expected, which was something along the lines of daily traffic reports, road construction information, etc. It covers broader transportation issues and highlights Web [...]
We talked about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act after last week’s blog group. Here’s a copyright infringement case where Diebold, a company that makes voting machines, is using the DMCA to get students who have posted company memos on their Web sites to remove them. Diebold claims that the students are infringing their [...]