Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Proposed agenda:

• Citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Future meeting topic: podcasting
  • Guest speaker(s)?
  • Demo?
  • The Berkman Center is getting into podcasting.
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing to an art museum
  • Via Bill: When iPods and Cellphones meet Art Exhibits
  • Art Mobs
• j can’t be at the meeting on the 20th. Can someone else please take notes?
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai last week
    

Deja vu

Proposed agenda:

Most of these items have been on the agenda for weeks. They keep getting bumped because the people who really want to talk about them haven’t been to a meeting and we haven’t been meeting since they’ve been on the agenda. This agenda will be a little long because of suggestions from other people. We’ll determine what to talk about at the meeting depending on who’s there and where interest lies.

• Citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Blogger-written policies related to blogging
• Future meeting topic: podcasting
  • Guest speaker(s)?
  • Demo?
  • The Berkman Center is getting into podcasting.
• VloggerCon: video bloggers conference in New York on Saturday, January 22
• Blogging, Journalism, & Credibility, webcasts and IRC, January 21 & 22
• Mystery Hunt
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing to an art museum
  • Via Bill: When iPods and Cellphones meet Art Exhibits
  • Art Mobs

• Reminder: Our group has a calendar. Please feel free to add events of interest to everyone to it.

• j can’t be at the meeting on the 20th. Can someone else please take notes?
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Smile Thai
  • Pizzeria Uno last week
    

**Audio** courtesy of Lisa Williams, 11.6 M, MP3

Notes:

• j’s live notes taken during the meeting
• Lisa’s essay on blog policies
• Shimon’s blog policy written during the meeting

Happy New Year!

Addendum 1:25 pm, update 3:32 pm: The formal meeting is canceled because of the weather. At 7 pm, some of us who are out in the storm anyway will meet for dinner at Pizzeria Uno, 22 JFK Street. If you want to make sure we save you a seat, comment below or bug j.

Proposed agenda:

Most of these items were on the agenda for Thursday, 12/9. They keep getting bumped because the people who really want to talk about them haven’t been to a meeting since they’ve been on the agenda. This agenda will be a little long because of suggestions from other people. We’ll determine what to talk about at the meeting depending on who’s there and where interest lies.

Of course, if the weather’s very icy, we might have to cancel the meeting, which means you’ll see this agenda again in a week. Wendy will post something in this space and to the discussion list if she’s going to cancel the meeting.

• Citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Blogger-written policies related to blogging
• Future meeting topic: podcasting
  • Guest speaker(s)?
  • Demo?
  • The Berkman Center is getting into podcasting.
• VloggerCon: video bloggers conference in New York on Saturday, January 22
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing to an art museum
  • Via Bill: When iPods and Cellphones meet Art Exhibits
  • Art Mobs

• Reminder: Our group has a calendar. Please feel free to add events of interest to everyone to it.

• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Pizzeria Uno
  • Seoul Food the last time we met way back in December

Notes:

• j’s live notes taken during the meeting

Hi everyone – if the weather is extremely bad tomorrow (it is supposed to basically throw ice at us), I will cancel the meeting. I’ll post to this space as well as the yahoogroup. I’ll decide by early afternoon.

Hope for sun? 🙂

Posted by Wendy

Because of the holidays, we will not meet again until January 6, 2005. Happy (and safe) holidays, everyone!

Proposed agenda:

Most of these items were on the agenda for Thursday, 12/9. Only four people were at the meeting and quite a few people who couldn’t make it wanted to discuss these issues, so we didn’t talk about them.

• No meetings at Berkman on the 23 or 30, back at Berkman on Jan. 6, 2005
• Focus on citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Votes, Bits, & Bytes, a free Berkman Center conference about politics and the Internet
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • Seoul Food
  • Casablanca last week

Notes:

• j’s live notes taken during the meeting

The Berkman Center folks plan to Webcast today’s Votes, Bits, & Bytes sessions in Ames Courtroom and those in Pound Hall 102 on Saturday.

There’s an IRC channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/harvardbits.

Webcasts of the Votes, Bits, & Bytes Conference …

Proposed agenda:

• Focus on citizen journalism based on the discussion on the list
  • Do bloggers need to pay their own way to events?
  • What about getting press credentials?
  • Should bloggers contact PR folks?
  • And more …
• Votes, Bits, & Bytes, a free Berkman Center conference about politics and the Internet
  • Presentation on the use of the Internet during the 2004 campaign Thursday night at 6 pm
    • j’s notes j only stayed for about 30 minutes
  • cool sessions on Friday and Saturday
  • lots of bloggers in town
  • Dave Winer’s party at the Hong Kong in Harvard Square, Saturday (12/11), 7-9 pm, RSVP & Details
• Blogadin gathering on Sunday, December 12, at Critt’s in Hull
• Lisa’s ideas for a fun group outing
• No meetings at Berkman on the 23 or 30, back at Berkman on Jan. 6, 2005
• What else?
• Eat
  

  • We’re going to have dinner with Sooz & Gregor at Casablanca at 8:30 pm

Notes:

• j’s live notes taken during the meeting

Like past and future agendas, if you have an item you’d like on the agenda, comment, get blogging privileges from Jay , or contact him or the other j.

Because only a few of us were able to make it out to Critt’s for dinner on Saturday, December 4, he moved the event to Sunday, December 12. Details as posted earlier are the same.

Dinner at Critt’s on Sunday, Dec. 12 …

Votes, Bits, & Bytes, a free conference organized by the Berkman Center from Thursday, Dec. 9, through Saturday, Dec. 11, focuses on politics and the Internet. Blogging will be a major part of this conference, particularly during a number of sessions on Saturday. Many of the themes map to our blog meeting discussions, particularly those on tools and blogging as a way to cross international boundaries. Some of our blog group members are speaking, too, like Rebecca MacKinnon and David Weinberger and our founder, Dave Winer. Michael Turk and Joe Trippi will discuss the Internet and politics in light of the 2004 U.S. presidential election during the opening event Thursday night at 6 pm.

Sooz and Gregor are hosting a special dutch treat dinner at Casablanca, 40 Brattle Street, at 8:30 pm on Thursday for the conference. We are invited to join them and bring friends and family members.

And, of course, our blogging friends Wendy Koslow and Erica George and many others at the Berkman Center are working very hard on this conference.

Berkman Conference on the Internet and Politics Features Sessions on Blogging …