Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

We have another fun & informal summer-style meeting planned for this Thursday. Jesse Baer, a longtime blog group member, will lead discussion at the Middlesex Lounge at 315 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Please join Jesse for fun & food at 7 pm!

If you know you’ll be there and want to RSVP in the comments, it’d be great to get a rough headcount in advance.

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• 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:

• SCHEDULED: August 9 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams. Will be awesome.
• Second Life – 1) a guided tour + how-to session | 2) a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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!+

We have a fun, informal meeting planned for July 5 with a guest from South Carolina who will tell us about the blog group he attends, which meets in a pub, and his series of posts about beer. We will meet at the Cambridge Common (the bar, not the green space), 1667 Mass Ave, at 7 pm. See you there!

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• 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:

• July 12, 19, 26 – possible summer hiatus or cool guest speakers?
  • Erica is unavailable to lead meetings these weeks
  • j has an online commitment each of those weeks from 6-8 p. She could possibly be present at the blog meetings, but not able to lead any meetings.
• August 9 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams. Will be awesome.
• Second Life – 1) a guided tour + how-to session | 2) a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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!+

There will not be a meeting tonight (unless people want to organize one in the comments or on the list). Erica is wiped out after a week of conference & meetings, and we have not set a topic or guest. See you all next week for a special “beer & blogs” at the Cambridge Common.
Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• 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:

• July 5 – beer & blogs at the Cambridge Common
• July 12, 19, 26 – possible summer hiatus or cool guest speakers?
  • Erica is unavailable to lead meetings these weeks
  • j has an online commitment each of those weeks from 6-8 p. She could possibly be present at the blog meetings, but not able to lead any meetings.
• August 9 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams. Will be awesome.
• Second Life – 1) a guided tour + how-to session | 2) a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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!+

The upgrade fairy visits blogs.law.harvard.edu on Monday, June 25, between noon and 5 pm.

“On Monday, June 25th, the Berkman Center will perform the long-awaited upgrade to Weblogs at Harvard Law  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu). In order to make this major change, we will disable posting and commenting on all blogs for approximately 5 hours, beginning at noon.”

Yay!

*stuffs weblog under pillow and waits patiently*

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topics:
  
• Greg Dennis from Organizers Collaborative on Grassroots Use of Tech conference this weekend
• We can also chat about anything – if you have a small topic you want to bring up tonight’s a great time for it.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Not an event per se, but Berkman’s old home at Baker House is moving up Mass Ave early Saturday morning as part of the HLS Northwest Corner construction project
• Anti-Spyware Coalition conference June 27
• Penguin Day June 22 in Lowell
• Grassroots Use of Technology 2007 conference June 23 in Lowell
• DevHouseBoston Sunday June 24
• 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:

• June 28 – open
• July 5 – beer & blogs at the Cambridge Common
• July 12, 19, 26 – possible summer hiatus or cool guest speakers?
  • Erica is unavailable to lead meetings these weeks
  • j has an online commitment each of those weeks from 6-8 p. She could possibly be present at the blog meetings, but not able to lead any meetings.
• August 9 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams. Will be awesome.
• Second Life – 1) a guided tour + how-to session | 2) a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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:
During the meeting, participate via:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topics:
  
• Adam Weiss will be here and has volunteered to talk about whatever of the multitude of amazing stuff he does that we’d like
• We can also chat about anything – we’ve got several scheduled meetings percolating so if you have a small topic you want to bring up tonight’s a great time for it.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Berkman lunch this upcoming Tuesday: danah boyd on myspace and social networking among youth (RSVP required)
• Penguin Day June 22 in Lowell
• Grassroots Use of Technology 2007 conference June 23 in Lowell
• DevHouseBoston Sunday June 24
• 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:

• June 21, June 28 – open, in process of matching topics to dates
• July 5 – beer & blogs at the Cambridge Common
• August 9 – Local-based media extravaganza, led by Lisa Williams
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life – a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? Reportback on conference.
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on podcasting: Adam Weiss / Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist)
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• Boston Placeblogs (ask Lisa to host) – Universal Hub, Boston Globe’s Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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:
During the meeting, participate via:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

Please note: Today is Harvard’s graduation day. If you normally travel to Berkman by car, you will want to plan some extra time to find parking, which may be scarce around the university. We recommend taking the T if you can, or planning to look for parking a little farther up Mass. Ave. than usual.

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topic: User-Generated Content, Ownership, and the Commons. Let’s talk about the ethics / economics / impact on community-building of the way the social web is structured. Potentially useful background reading:
• “Six Apart casts “evanesco”. Fanfic authors cast “expelliarmus”. blog post by Ethan Zuckerman
• “User Generated Content” & Ownership: The User as Citizen” blog post by Erica
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Berkman lunch this upcoming Tuesday: Erin Mishkin & John Palfrey on Digital Natives
• DevHouseBoston Sunday June 24
• 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:

• Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life – a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? Reportback on conference.
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on podcasting: Adam Weiss / Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist)
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• Boston Placeblogs (ask Lisa to host) – Universal Hub, Boston Globe’s Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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:
–>

During the meeting, participate via:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

This week instead of meeting as usual at the Berkman Center, we’ll attend the O’Reilly Ignite Boston event at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square, 96 Winthrop Street. RSVPing to O’Reilly is encouraged: IgniteBoston [at] oreilly [dot] com.

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Berkman Internet & Society conference Friday June 1
• DevHouseBoston Sunday June 24
• 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:

• Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life – a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? Reportback on conference.
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on podcasting: Adam Weiss / Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist)
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• Boston Placeblogs (ask Lisa to host) – Universal Hub, Boston Globe’s Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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: Tommy Doyle’s

During the meeting, participate via:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

–>

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topics:
• Mike has requested that Erica talk about website security and StopBadware.org
• Some people may want to discuss problems experienced in Gmail as possible hacks
• If there’s time, Erica can share info from the fan conference she attended/presented at last week, and current issues in the fan/media producer interaction dynamic
• Next week instead of meeting we’ll attend the O’Reilly Ignite Boston event at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Free Culture conference this Saturday
• Berkman Internet & Society conference Friday June 1
• DevHouseBoston Sunday June 24
• 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:

• Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• Second Life – a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
• Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
• People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
• Digital natives: ask Erin Mishkin
• For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
• What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? Reportback on conference.
• Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j can lead something
• People to do sessions on podcasting: Adam Weiss / Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist)
• People to do sessions on video: Steve Garfield / David Temez of Boston Media Makers
• Boston Placeblogs (ask Lisa to host) – Universal Hub, Boston Globe’s Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
• OpenID – Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begbie)
• Streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
• Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
• Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
• you?
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!

Agenda

• Introductions
• Topic: Browser-based chat client: Shimon and j give a participatory demo of the chat client they’ve been working on at Renesys. Those people who bring laptops can play along during the demo. The plug-in should be available to the public by the end of the month.
• Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• 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:

• Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
• Second Life – a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for the near future.
• 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 lead something
• 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 Begbie to lead or help us find people)
• Someone who can teach us about streaming radio – how to make your own streaming radio station
• and who can address the new rules around it!
• 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?
• 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:

• IRC chat
• Join us at 23 Everett St!