Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Welcome back from the holiday hiatus!

Agenda

• Introductions
• Anything else
• TONIGHT at Berkman after our meeting – at 9 pm Harvard College Free Culture will be screening a cool video – Larry Lessig “On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code” that Cory Doctorow calls “stunning” and which features some in-video critical response from local friend-of-blog- group Mako Hill. So come & stick around for that.

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Feb 1: We’ve decided to do a live blog of some kind since we can’t use Berkman on 2/1. We’ll take ideas and then choose where to go.
• Feb 7: Conference at MIT: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/ww07/ag…
• Berkman & MIT CMS & Yale ISP are putting on Beyond Broadcast 2007 on February 24. You can now register: http://www.beyondbroadcast.net
• Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

• Jan or Feb: Ted Demopoulos on his new book “What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere”
• Jan or Feb: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• 2/22: Andy Carvin is back in town! He’ll have lots to talk about, and is bringing a friend, Steve Clift, who organized the Minnesota gubernatorial e-debate in November at www.e-democracy.org.
• We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Brett on Ubuntu
• you?
• If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love – and could really use – your help!

Eat:

• This week:

During the meeting, participate via:

• Still no webcast (do we even want one every week?? or just special stuff?)
• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!