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:

Dim Sum w/ Dave Winer, Sunday (2/25), 1 p, Chau Chow City

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j - February 23, 2007 @ 7:16 pm · Social Events

Remember how we used to go for dim sum? Dave Winer, our group’s founder, is in town and would like us to gather in his honor on Sunday, 2/25, at 1 pm at Chau Chow City, 83 Essex Street, Chinatown, Boston.

Dave set up a wiki page where we can RSVP. While RSVPing is not necessary, it does help us get a big enough table and find people at the restaurant.

We can celebrate the Chinese New Year while we’re at it, too.

What are blog group dim sum outings?

Dim Sum w/ Dave Winer, Sunday (2/25), 1 p, Chau Chow City …

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:

This week: No meeting

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egeorge - January 30, 2007 @ 11:17 am · Meetings


We don’t have critical mass for the art mob liveblogging tonight. Sorry! Hopefully we will be able to arrange this event for another date and at another venue, someplace that does still allow photos to be taken.


This week, we are not meeting at the Berkman Center due to a Berkman event. Instead, we are liveblogging at the ICA! (pending a critical mass of people saying they indeed will go)

ICA Liveblogging Excursion Details

  • The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) has a relatively new building, on the waterfront.
  • The last time this group did a liveblog outing, it was at the old ICA
  • There are cool exhibits, like the one on “Supervision”
  • The ICA is free on Thursday evenings from 5-9 pm
  • Neither Erica nor j can be there, so we need a volunteer to be the point person and to set a group meeting place at the ICA
  • Here are directions: http://www.icaboston.org/visit/direction…
  • If you are going, please comment, so we can gauge if there is critical mass for actually doing this excursion together this week

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

2007/01/25 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - January 25, 2007 @ 5:27 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Next week 2/1 – liveblogging, not at Berkman
    • Where? ICA?
    • Who can coordinate day-of? (Erica can’t, due to Berkman open house that night)
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

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!

2007/01/18 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - January 18, 2007 @ 5:36 pm · Meetings

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:

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!
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