Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

We don’t plan to cover anything on the agenda tonight.

• MB is working on an article about blogging for a class assignment and is recording the meeting as a test.
• MB: It’s amazing how much fact checking we can do via Google.
• MD: Yeah, we use Google to find things for patients sometimes.
• j: What do you do to check the reliability of the Web sites?
• MD: Well, there are a few well-known sites I use frequently. I don’t trust sites from private doctors the same way as I do sites by teaching hospitals and medical schools.
• MD: Has anyone seen Sideways?
• SR: Spenglish is good.
• LW: Documentaries rock!
• Yours is a Very Bad Hotel
• LW: I began blogging because a former boyfriend stole a journal and used the contents against me. I figured if I wrote my journal in public, no one could use the contents against me.
• EG: I know a lot of couples who have met because of online journaling.
• LW: Here’s a blogging couple.
• Citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Blogger-written policies related to blogging
• Future meeting topic: podcasting
  • Guest speaker(s)?
  • Demo?
  • The Berkman Center is getting into podcasting.
• VloggerCon: video bloggers conference in New York on Saturday, January 22
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing to an art museum
  • Via Bill: When iPods and Cellphones meet Art Exhibits
  • Art Mobs
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art is free on Thursdays.

• Reminder: Our group has a calendar. Please feel free to add events of interest to everyone to it.

• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Pizzeria Uno
  • Seoul Food the last time we met way back in December