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Manila Blog Server Shutdown Timeline

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j - April 18, 2007 @ 12:59 am · Meetings

Some of you who have content on the Manila server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for the last four years have been wondering what’s next. Wonder no longer. The server administrators posted a timeline. People have through the day on Wednesday, April 18, to get their content. After that, the URL is changing and people might lose editorial access to their weblogs. After April 25, the server will no longer be accessible via the Web. The admins will back up all of the files.

So, um, get your stuff, like, oh, NOW.

(reposted with permission from j’s scratchpad)

2007/04/12 Proposed Agenda

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j - April 12, 2007 @ 12:37 am · Meetings

Special Note: If you have content on the Manila blog server, you must migrate to the WordPress server or otherwise backup your content before Wednesday, April 11, when the Manila server will be shut down.

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • The new Thursday Meetings blog  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/) and feeds  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/f…, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/c…)
  • SpotStory with Aron
  • Jon on comment management responsibility(?)
  • Someone on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy(?)
  • We can’t use the conference room on April 19. Let’s figure out what to do instead: dinner, fun outing we blog, contradancing, take a night off, etc.
  • Anything else

    • Upcoming events of interest:

    Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

    • 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
    • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
    • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
    • Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
    • 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 you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
      • j here: I love hidden notes in the agenda. Sure, I can do Skype.
    • 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 Begby to lead or help us find people)
    • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
    • 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? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
    • 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:

2007/04/05 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - April 5, 2007 @ 5:52 pm · Meetings

Special Note: If you have content on the Manila blog server, you must migrate to the WordPress server or otherwise backup your content before Wednesday, April 11, when the Manila server will be shut down.

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • j and Erica could tell the sordid tale of the Manila server and its downfall, if anyone is interested
  • j is arriving late, but can talk about blog spam
  • Twitter is getting a lot of buzz lately. Is anyone here using it? Does it mean anything for blogging? Is it all a bunch of hype?
  • Doc Searls may drop in – if so, maybe we can persuade him to tell a bit about his VRM (vendor relationship management) project
  • 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:

  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • 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 you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • 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 Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
  • 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?
  • SpotStory
  • you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • 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:

2007/03/29 Proposed Agenda

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j - March 29, 2007 @ 2:59 pm · Meetings

A special meeting at 6 pm will address what’s happening with the Manila server, its scheduled shutdown in about two weeks, and how people can move their content off before Wednesday, April 11.

Agenda

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:

  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • 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 you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • 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 Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
  • 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? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • 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:

2007/03/15 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 15, 2007 @ 12:04 am · Meetings

Agenda

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

  • 3/22: NO MEETING as room use/coordinator schedule conflict
  • 3/29: Regina O’Brien of Boston NOW on their new user-fed online-and-offline free daily paper. Boston Globe article on the paper.
  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just-dinner?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • 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 you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • 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 Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
  • 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? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • 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:

2007/03/08 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 8, 2007 @ 2:07 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • This is the last non-special-guest meeting for a little while, so if you’ve got interesting questions to ask the group, now is the best time.
  • Should we hold a “Blogging Newbie Night” and publicize it widely? The idea would be to provide a resource to the folks who come to us wanting to learn about blogging, in one night rather than spread out randomly at the ends of other sessions. We could give a presentation about what blogs are and a quick mini-tour of some of what the blogosphere has to offer/the kinds of blogs a person could choose to have. We could quickly discuss podcasts, video blogs, etc. And then we could break out into small groups taking one-on-one with the newbies. Is this a good idea? Would people be willing to commit to something like this if we decide to do it? — We think YES this is a good idea.
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

  • 3/15: Ted Demopoulos, who wrote “What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere”. Let’s ask him to tell us about writing it, the bloggers he interviewed, etc.
  • 3/22: NO MEETING as room use/coordinator schedule conflict
  • 3/29: Regina O’Brien of Boston NOW on their new user-fed online-and-offline free daily paper. Boston Globe article on the paper.
  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just-dinner?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • 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 you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • 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 Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
  • 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? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • 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:

2007/03/01 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 1, 2007 @ 4:23 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Continuing conversations begun last week with Andy and Steve?
  • Debriefing Beyond Broadcast?
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

Eat:

  • Last week: Dave was here, we went to the Bombay Club for old time’s sake.

During the meeting, participate via:

2007/02/22 Proposed Agenda

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j - February 20, 2007 @ 12:37 am · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Andy Carvin, one of our regulars who now lives in Washington, DC, and has a cool job with NPR, has 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.
  • Our founder Dave Winer is here
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

Eat:

  • This week: Dave’s here, so praps we’ll go to the Bombay Club for old time’s sake.

During the meeting, participate via:

No Meeting Tonight 2/15/07

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egeorge - February 15, 2007 @ 1:14 pm · Meetings

Blog group will not be meeting tonight, 2/15/07. We apologize for any inconvenience. Bad weather in Cambridge is still making commuting very difficult – go home and get warm instead!

Up next week: Blog group member Andy Carvin will be in town, and has many stories to tell. Andy will be joined by Steve Clift, who organized the Minnesota gubernatorial e-debate in November ’06 at http://www.e-democracy.org.

2007/02/08 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - February 8, 2007 @ 3:59 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Marc Sacks would like a few minutes to talk on progressive talk radio in Boston.
  • j on comment and trackback spam
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

  • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
  • Berkman & MIT CMS & Yale ISP are putting on Beyond Broadcast 2007 on February 24. Register (it’s close to being full!): http://www.beyondbroadcast.net
  • Mit Spam Con March 30
  • 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:

Eat:

  • This week:

During the meeting, participate via:

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