2007/08/02 Proposed Agenda
This week, Jack Hodgson introduces us to a project in alpha that can talk about itself: Voxci. Join us to hear about it first!
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:
- August 9 – Critt on Twitter and Grazr and stuff
- August 16 – Tish Grier with some cool citizen journalism stuff
- August 23 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams. Will be awesome. (note new date!)
- Second Life – 1) a guided tour + how-to session | 2) a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
- Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
- People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
- Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
- For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
- What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? (and what about the Miro player?)
- Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
- People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
- OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
- Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
- Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
- Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools 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!+
Pablo Baques
August 2, 2007 @ 10:54 am
I plan to attend the meeting tonight, at the suggestion of Zach Braiker. I am looking forward to meeting all of you. Nos vemos esta noche. Pablo. ( pbaques@hotmail.com, in case you want to pre-connect)