Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Proposed agenda:

• Citizen journalism next week (Lisa’s proposal)
• BlogFest Boston
• What else?
• Eat -> Short agenda = finish sooner & eat earlier!
  

  • Last week: Bombay Club
    

live audio during the meeting

MP3 recording of meeting audio (7.1MB)

• Note: Shimon thinks this was the most aimless and boring meeting ever… but at least it wasn’t too long.

IRC chat during the meeting

Live notes updated frequently during the meeting.

A March 27 Wikinews piece discusses the March 24 meeting and our group members efforts to create online blogging tutorial resources.

Wikinews Highlights our Blogging Tutorial Project …

Proposed agenda:

• Deborah Finn tells us about the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Chicago last week
• More about Global Voices?
• Other things we’d like to discuss in future meetings, people we’d like to invite, etc.
• What else?
• Eat – Short agenda = finish sooner & eat earlier!
  

  • Bombay Club
  • Last week: Cambridge Common
    

live audio during the meeting

IRC chat during the meeting

Notes: Erica’s first attempt at live notes

Proposed agenda:

• CamStudio Demo
• Rebecca: Bloggercorps and Global Voices
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Last week: Smile Thai again
    

We did live audio again.

Update: An audio recording is now available (13MB MP3).

Notes:

j was not at last night’s meeting and, thus, did not take notes. Did anyone?

Proposed agenda:

• Skip the meeting and listen to Sam’s group rehearse in Sanders Theatre
• Wear green or get pinched.
• 6:30 pm: work on audio for the meeting
• Blogging 101
• Yahoo! Group membership requests
• Combatting trackback and comment spam
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai
  • Last week: Chang Sho
    

Live Audio!!!!!! THANKS, SHIMON!!!

Notes:

• j’s live notes
• Deborah Elizabeth Finn’s thoughts on the meeting

Audio Recording: 86 minute, 15MB MP3

According to Nightliine’s e-mail highlighting the next show, tonight’s (Tuesday, 3/8) show will be about blogging. It will probably contain some footage of the meeting they attended.

From the e-mail:

"Tonight, correspondent John Donvan will tell the story about a high school teacher whose blog led to political change in her state. Tonight’s piece is a fascinating one. Turns out that as John and producer Elissa Rubin were conducting interviews with bloggers, they were being blogged.* The bloggers had some interesting opinions, to say the least."

Will it be better than Steve’s video? Will it show our weblog? Will the sound of j’s typing drown out what everyone says?

*Just for the record, they told us we could blog about them being at the meeting. It’s not like we were doing it on the sly.

Addendum 3/9: Nightline did indeed show their segment on bloggers finally. They did a great job of showing just about everyone in the room and missing that baby food stain on Lisa’s sweater. I laughed when they showed vlogger Steve Garfield, whom you might remember from such publications as The New York Times and The Boston Globe, filming the Nightline crew.

A video excerpt from another segment is floating around the blogosphere, according Tara L.

• Bill Ives points out how they focused on bloggers as amateurs.
• Lisa Williams, identified only as a mother who blogs about motherhood in the segment even though she writes lots of other nifty things and does a lot more than take care of children, observes the baby food stain on her shirt isn’t very noticeable.
• Jared Dunn, who had a blog post featured during the segment, stands by his previous comments. He elaborates further.
• Steve Garfield has a few follow-up posts about Nightline.

Nightline Segment on Blogging to Air Tonight …

Proposed agenda:

• Blogging politicians
• I wonder if anyone wants to talk about Nightline.
• T-shirts
• Policy about swag
• Shimon’s list of what we need for free streaming audio
• Blogging 101?
• M/Eating at The Wrap
• Skiing on Sunday with Lisa
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Chang Sho
  • Last week: Smile Thai and somewhere else
    

Notes:

• j’s live notes

Proposed agenda:

• Blogging politicians
• Harvard ABCD Software Development working group & blogging API talk
• Blogging 101
  • Special meeting of this group at 6:30 pm
  • Citizen Schools: blogging presentations, internships for high school students
• Do bloggers need credentials?
• Envisioning the future of weblog software, take 2
• Other proselytizing?
• Frassle alpha 9a demo?
  • Using Frassle’s content studio to build custom aggregators and RSS feeds
• The art exhibit we need to blog
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai and somewhere else
  • Bombay Club again last week
    

Notes:

• j’s live notes

Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub is now writing a column about weblogs for The Boston Globe. The last item in this column is about Nightline being at our blog meeting. Word on the street, by the way, is that the episode might air in the next two weeks.

New Boston Globe Column about Weblogs …

This weblog now has a list of weblogs and Web sites for active group members. Additions, deletions, and changes should be sent to j.

Attendees’ Weblogs and Web Sites …