Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Our apologies, but we are not able to have a meeting this week at Berkman. j is out of town on a well-deserved vacation, and Erica is both moving on Friday morning, and currently sick.

If people would like to independently arrange to meet elsewhere or to have dinner, feel free to plan something in the comments or on the discussion list. If something is planned, I’m happy to post it to this blog.

We will be meeting, at Berkman, on September 7. Zachary Braiker is scheduled to lead discussion that week.

Neither Erica nor j can attend the meeting on Thursday, August 24, so the group cannot meet at Berkman. If people want to organize dinner or some other activity for the group on their own, fabulous!

We’ll be back at Berkman on August 31.

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center moved to 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. A few weeks ago, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society moved to a large, yellow Victorian building at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we will use for the meetings is on the second floor. It’s number 202. It’s just across from the elevator and to the immediate right of the stairs. (No, it’s not the men’s room.) The building is a short distance from Baker House, where we used to meet.

• Introductions
• sj on Global Voices Online
• Anyone from BlogHer want to tell us how it was?
• BarCamp Earth
• No meeting on August 24th.

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center moved to 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. A few weeks ago, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society moved to a large, yellow Victorian building at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we will use for the meetings is on the second floor. It’s number 202. It’s just across from the elevator and to the immediate right of the stairs. (No, it’s not the men’s room.) The building is a short distance from Baker House, where we used to meet.

• Introductions
• Shava: “the role of the bloggers in the Lamont primary victory in CT”
• Paul Frankenstein wants to chat a bit about One Web Day
• Wikimania on the brain still
  • Anyone from Wikimania who’s in town with nothing better to do should come meet some bloggers.
• Anyone from BlogHer want to tell us how it was?
• BarCamp Earth
• No meeting on August 24th.

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center moved to 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. A few weeks ago, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society moved to a large, yellow Victorian building at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we will use for the meetings is on the second floor. It’s number 202. It’s just across from the elevator and to the immediate right of the stairs. (No, it’s not the men’s room.) The building is a short distance from Baker House, where we used to meet.

• Introductions
• Wikimania on the brain still
  • Anyone from Wikimania who’s in town with nothing better to do should come meet some bloggers.
  • Maybe some Hacking Days participants can tell us what life’s about.
  • Find out how you can participate!
  • Hacking Days
  • Citizen journanlism day
• Anyone from BlogHer want to tell us how it was?
• BarCamp Earth
• RedLine for a special party from 9 to 11 pm

Don’t forget: the Berkman Center moved to 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. A few weeks ago, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society moved to a large, yellow Victorian building at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we will use for the meetings is on the second floor. It’s number 202. It’s just across from the elevator and to the immediate right of the stairs. (No, it’s not the men’s room.) The building is a short distance from Baker House, where we used to meet.

• Introductions
• Wikimania on the brain
  • Find out how you can participate!
  • Hacking Days
  • Citizen journanlism day
  • Joint meeting with Wikimania participants on 8/3
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 1-3, 4-6
  • Citizen Media “Unconference” with Dan Gillmor, August 7
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • August 3: Something taking advantage of all the fabulous Wikimania folks who will already be in town, especially those here for Hacking Days
  • Get Colin Rhinesmith to report-back to us on the Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World
  • Zach would like to present on a new project he is affiliated with, Others Online
  • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
  • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
  • Adam and something about maps
  • Brett on Ubuntu
  • 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:
  • Last week: Cambridge Common and/or Moody’s Falafel Palace

During the meeting, participate via:

• Webcast?
• IRC chat
  

• Join us at Baker House 23 Everett Street!

NOTE: THIS WEEK WE ARE MEETING IN A NEW LOCATION. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has moved to a large, yellow Victorian building at 23 Everett Street. The conference room we will use for the meetings is on the second floor. It’s number 202. It’s just across from the elevator and to the immediate right of the stairs. (No, it’s not the men’s room.) The building is a short distance from Baker House, where we used to meet.

• Introductions
• Let’s catch up. How are people spending their summers?
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 1-3, 4-6
  • Citizen Media “Unconference” with Dan Gillmor, August 7
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • July 27: open (Colin R? Zach?)
  • August 3: Something taking advantage of all the fabulous Wikimania folks who will already be in town, especially those here for Hacking Days
  • Get Colin Rhinesmith to report-back to us on the Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World
  • Zach would like to present on a new project he is affiliated with, Others Online
  • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
  • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
  • Adam and something about maps
  • Brett on Ubuntu
  • 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: Cambridge Common
  • Last week: Redbones

During the meeting, participate via:

• Probably no webcast because of the move last week
• IRC chat
  

• Join us at Baker House 23 Everett Street!

NOTE: THIS WEEK WE ARE MEETING IN A SPECIAL LOCATION. Because Berkman is in the process of moving offices, we are meeting in Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall, room 106. Pound is right across the small parking lot from Baker House, Berkman’s soon-to-be-old building.

Due to the move, we will NOT be webcasting. Also due to the move, our usual open wireless access through Berkman will not be available. Erica is looking into getting the wireless unlocked in Pound for that evening.

• Introductions
• Tracy Rolling from Platial
  • Platial is a social/narrative map mashup site with lots of neat possibilities
  • article about Platial in Wired (by Annalee Newitz!)
  • Tracy’s open map of Boston area swimming spots
  • Thanks, Shava Nerad for arranging!
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • July 20, 27: open (Colin R? Zach?)
  • August 3: Something taking advantage of all the fabulous Wikimania folks who will already be in town.
  • Get Colin Rhinesmith to report-back to us on the Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World
  • Zach would like to present on a new project he is affiliated with, Others Online
  • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
  • 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:
  • Last week: Stylefeeder party!

During the meeting, participate via:

• No webcast this week, sorry! (due to non-usual venue)
• IRC chat
• live notes
• Join us at Baker House Pound Hall 106!

• Introductions
• Bob Stepno, a journalism professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and remote blog group regular is visiting this week. He’s going to talk about something bloggy and journalismy, maybe citizen journalism, maybe we can persuade him to tell us about how he uses/discusses blogging in his journalism courses. Perhaps he’ll discuss the Rocky Top Brigade.
• Moment of nostalgia for this being our last ever blog group meeting in Baker House, before Berkman moves offices. Hey, we outlasted a building!
• Stylefeeder party on Church St. at the Top10Sources HQ. Food and fun!
• contradancing afterward with Bob!
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • If you’re definitely going to one of these far-flung supercool events, comment and let us know so other blog group folks will know to look for friendly faces (and to potentially coordinate travel, lodging shares etc.). You can definitely expect to see many of us at the events local to Boston.
  • Alliance for Community Media, in Boston, July 5-8
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • July 13: We will need to either move blog group or cancel it this day since Berkman will be in the process of moving to our new office. edit: Erica is working on a new location so that we can hopefully catch Tracy from Platial while she is in town.
  • July 20, 27: open
  • August 3: Something takign advantage of all the fabulous Wikimania folks who will already be in town.
  • Get Colin Rhinesmith to report-back to us on the Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World
  • Zach would like to present on a new project he is affiliated with, Others Online
  • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
  • Shava Nerad is working with Tracy from Platial to have her present (Tracey is gone for July so we’re looking at Aug or Sept).
  • 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: Stylefeeder party!
  • Last week: contradancing! then Redbones

During the meeting, participate via:

• Webcast: rtsp://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… or as backup http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… (Erica will try to get the webcast set up in advance)
• IRC chat
• live notes
• Join us at Baker House!

• Introductions
• The Filipino Librarian, Von
  • more about Von
• Anyone attend BloggerCon IV in San Francisco, June 23-24?
• Next week: Bob Stepno returns (briefly) on July 6, then we’ll go down to the Stylefeeder.com party on Church St., then contradancing afterward with Bob!
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • If you’re definitely going to one of these far-flung supercool events, comment and let us know so other blog group folks will know to look for friendly faces (and to potentially coordinate travel, lodging shares etc.). You can definitely expect to see many of us at the events local to Boston.
  • Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World in Amherst, June 29-July 1 –> conference blog is much better website: http://newshare.typepad.com/mgp2006/
  • Alliance for Community Media, in Boston, July 5-8
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
  • Shava Nerad is working with Tracey from Placial (sp?) to have her present (Tracey is gone for July so we’re looking at Aug or Sept).
  • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
  • 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: contradancing! then Redbones
  • Last week: SMILE THAI at 8:45 pm for the Wikimania meeting

During the meeting, participate via:

• Webcast: rtsp://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… or as backup http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… *no webcast tonight*
• IRC chat
• live notes and Von’s own post-meeting notes and links
• Join us at Baker House!