05/27/2004 Meeting Notes
2004/05/27 Meeting notes
These notes are a best effort.
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Attendees:
- JH: Jack Hodgson
- SR: Shimon Rura
- DW: Dave Winer
- j: j Baumgart
- Sun: Sun
- VD: Vernica Downey
- BI: Bill Ives
- GE: Garrett Eastman
- GR: Gregor Rothfuss
- Ben: Ben
- SH: Sarah Horton
There will be no Webcast.
Notes:
- BI: blogs in a corporate environment, KM and all that.
- RSS blog
- http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/
- what makes a weblog a weblog
- Harvard employee fired for content of blog
- Can spammers get e-mail addresses from Harvard blogs’ profiles?
- DW: No, they can’t.
- Thursday night blogger Gregor J. Rothfuss got quoted in a New York Times article about blogging.
- GR: They got the URL wrong: greg.abstract.ch. It should be: http://greg.abstrakt.ch/
- SR: how do I get my software company to begin using blogs and other knowledge management tools?
- j: get a librarian
- BI: I can’t really answer your question
- SR: How do I get people to use it
- BI: People will use it if it’s inline with their work
- SR: If we put it online somewhere and it’s searchable, people could get used to going there to find what they need
- Ben: recommended some systems to SR
- Yahoo! Groups now has RSS feeds. You can get the Berkman Thursday meetings Yahoo! Group e-mail as an RSS feed.
- GE: house party for John Kerry Saturday night
- j: You can go from this house party to Sanskritboy’s party and party all night
- JH: Andy Kaufman has a blog, even though he’s dead
- BI: Sega did a fake blog once to promote a video game
