Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Proposed Agenda:

• Voice of America (7-7:15; pending confirmation from VoA crew)
• Livejournal: Not Just for Teenaged Girls Anymore, moderated by Josh Ain
  • Josh’s slides: Boston Wi-Fi Summit today
  • Well wishes for Gregory
  • Notes: Erica would like someone else to take notes during the Livejournal discussion so she can more actively participate. j is not to take notes, on pain of tickling, until her wrists are fully healed.
  • What else?
  • Eat:
    • Uno’s last week

  live audio during the meeting: Not today, sorry! No microphone!! We’ll monitor IRC though…

  Live notes

  IRC chat during the meeting

Livejournal has a reputation as a hotbed for irrelevant material. A
‘typical’ livejournal blogger is typecast as someone who blogs about
trivial things: the teenage girl blog, or the cat blog. Yet
livejournal has been immensely successful within its chosen niche. Why
are livejournal users the AOL users of the new era? Is this reputation
deserved? What technology does livejournal possess that caters to and
attracts these users?

In this meeting we will examine the livejournal blogging/aggregation
platform with a specific focus on its success as a social networking
tool. We’ll spend about fifteen minutes on a presentation, and hear
from a couple hardcore livejournal users from within our group. Then
we’ll open up the floor to discussion.

Come to this meeting thinking about this question: what features would
make your blogging / aggregation platform a more valuable tool for
communicating with your friends? We’ll look at how Livejournal
succeeds through this lens.

Date: Thursday, June 19 7PM
Cost: $0! We often go for dinner afterward which is Dutch Treat.
Directions: Berkman Thursday Meeting Info
Moderator: Josh Ain (Weblog: Josh Ain’s Inspiration and Humor)
Berkman blog group weblog with meeting notes and info: Berkman Blog Group Meetings
Participate remotely? Yes!
To listen: http://rura.org:8000/stream.m3u (only during meeting).
To ask questions: Meeting IRC chatroom. Directions: Berkman Thursday Weblog Meeting IRC chat
Audio archives: We attempt to archive audio of meetings so you can listen after the fact. Scan this blog for news of newly uploaded audio recordings of sessions.

Sam Klein, Wikipedia maven, will try to give us a flavor of the world of Wikis — the collaborative, cathedral-like information structures of the web. Sam will also cover access control and antispam techniques for Wikis that keep these cathedrals from turning into an info-landfill. Sam has a weblog, SJ’s Longest Now, but you can get a feel for the variety and quickness of his intellect by visiting his page on Wikipedia.

Details: Berkman Thursday Bloggers’ Meeting
Berkman Center for the Internet and Society
Cambridge, MA
Date: Thursday, June 23 7PM
Cost: $0! We often go for dinner afterward which is Dutch Treat.
Directions: Berkman Thursday Meeting Info
Moderator: Sam Klein (Weblog: SJ’s Longest Now)
Berkman blog group weblog with meeting notes and info: Berkman Blog Group Meetings
Participate remotely? Yes!
To listen: http://rura.org:8000/stream.m3u (only during meeting).
To ask questions: Meeting IRC chatroom. Directions: Berkman Thursday Weblog Meeting IRC chat
Audio archives: We attempt to archive audio of meetings so you can listen after the fact. Scan this blog for news of newly uploaded audio recordings of sessions.

Proposed agenda:

I honestly have no idea what to put on the agenda. We need to jump start our meetings again. *j goes to get jumper cables

• Frassle (Hey–it’s wishful thinking anyway …)

• **Crisis in the blog group! What do we do?**
• How do we run sound?
• Suggestions for a musical weblog
• Boston WiFi Summit, May 19
• Blogging 101
• Getting the Wikinews folks to return
• Social outing: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Well wishes for Gregory
• j has totally messed up wrists. Erica will take notes. (Erica totally rocks, er, contradances, er, something!)
• What else?
• Eat
  
  
  
  • Chang Sho last week
    

live audio during the meeting (Yay Josh who saved the day!)

Live notes

IRC chat during the meeting

Proposed agenda:

• Steven Johnson’s talk
  • Steve Garfield’s interview via Rocketboom
• Blogging 101
• Getting the Wikinews folks to return
• Outings: sj sings Friday and Saturday
• Social outing: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Christopher Lydon’s new blog/radio show/blog
• Well wishes for Gregory
• j not here on the 12th
• What else?
• Eat
  
  
  
  • Chang Sho

  • Did anyone eat last week? (Yes: Smile Thai after the SBJ talk) [You’d think I would have guessed that.]
    

live audio during the meeting **So far, there is no audio. The person who runs the feed isn’t here tonight to set it up and he hasn’t trained anyone else on how to do it yet.**

Attendee notes

IRC chat during the meeting

Note: The meeting is not happening. People went to Steven Johnson’s lecture instead.

Proposed agenda:

• Blogging 101 (at 6:30!)
• Well wishes for Gregory
• Getting the Wikinews folks to return
• sj’s birds!
• Group blogging outing: performer auditions at Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall Saturday and Sunday
  • Apple Crisp, a really cool band with a vibraphone, is playing at 10:30 am on Sunday. j might go. Any other takers? There might be guerilla contradancing … lunch … dim sum … more [postponed from last week]
• Social outing: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • We ended up at Smile Thai after SBJ’s talk
  • You guys went to Penang without me last week! So not fair!
    

Blogging 101 notes

IRC chat during the meeting

Our blogging friend Gregory, who had a lung transplant on April 13-14, had a bit of a setback over the weekend and is having a rough time. Please keep him, his family, and his friends in your thoughts. It seems like his recovery was going really well for a while.

Gregory had a bit of a setback. Please send well wishes. …

Proposed agenda:

• Boston City Councillor John Tobin
• Blogging 101
• Well wishes for Gregory
• Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia speaks Tuesday, April 26, at 8:30 pm
• Getting the Wikinews folks to return
• Boston Cyberarts Festival
  • Samuel Klein is featured during the opening party.
• Group blogging outing: performer auditions at Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall Saturday and Sunday
  • Apple Crisp, a really cool band with a vibraphone, is playing at noon on Sunday. j might go. Any other takers? There might be guerilla contradancing …
• Social outing: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai again last week
    

live audio during the meeting

Notes: Live notes taken & updated during the meeting

IRC chat during the meeting

Many of you may remember Gregory Blake from meetings in the not-that-recent past – he went home to Connecticut to wait for a new lung. Well, he just got that lung! His recovery seems to be going well. Positive thoughts, prayers, and good energy of all kinds should be directed toward Brigham & Women’s Hospital (no visitors yet!).

Whoopee!!!

Posted by Wendy

Proposed agenda:

• Citizen journalism (See Lisa’s proposal)
• Boston City Councillor John Tobin next week
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai
  • Last week: Uno’s
    

Recorded Audio: MP3, 89 minutes, 16MB

Notes:

• The horrible live notes taken during the meeting

• Please avoid rustling paper and jelly beans near the microphone.
• This meeting has gathered significant outside interest, so please announce agenda items and major speakers. Help these listeners — live and recorded — by narrating.
• j: the sound of typing will probably permeate the Webcast. There isn’t much I can do to type quieter. I don’t plan to sit near the mic, but it’ll still be everywhere. My apologies.

IRC chat during the meeting

j: Some of the Wikinews folks joined us on IRC and in person. Hooray!

Word about our meeting spreads.