Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topic: Browser-based chat client: Shimon and j give a participatory demo of the chat client they’ve been working on at Renesys. Those people who bring laptops can play along during the demo. The plug-in should be available to the public by the end of the month.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for 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.

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life – a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• Ben Sheldon and something about maps
• Adam and something about maps
• Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
• Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• Another session on podcasting – Adam Weiss
• Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
• A session on video – get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
• David Temez – video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
• Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) – Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID – why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
• and who can address the new rules around it!
• Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
• What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!