Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

2004/07/15 Meeting notes

These notes are a best effort.

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Attendees:

• WK: Wendy Koslow
• j: j Baumgart
• SP: Steve Pomeroy
• VD: Vernica Downey
• Sun
• SR: Shimon Rura
• JA: Josh Ain
• RH: Rick Heller
• RF: Randy Fenstermacher, works for Harvard College Library as a bag searcher
• AG: Andrew Grumet
• MF: Michael Feldman
• RM: Rebecca MacKinnon
• LW: Lisa Williams

There will be no Webcast.

Proposed Agenda

Notes:

• RH: Volunteer training at the DNC began with a lesson in how to be friendly since Bostonians aren’t friendly
• Bloggers covering the DNC
  • RH: talked a bit about having credentials
  • RH: Oklahoma voted for Clark, so Rick’s thinking about hanging out with the Oklahoma delegation
  • Adam Curry’s DNC feed
  • Do we want to try to do anything special with bloggers coming into the area?
    • Yes, but how?
      • Most of us can only do things in the evening when the convention is happening
      • Sunday brunch if people are coming in on Sunday
      • A few of us can do brunch before work if it’s really, really early
    • I’ve heard rumors that a northern neighbor with credentials is looking for some blogging fun while in town.
    • psuedo convention schedule
• Perhaps an update of some of the things we talked about last week.
  • WK: we have money from the Berkman Center for a mic and license to get the Webcast going again
  • There might be other options with blogging tools.
• Can we get Rebecca to talk about a panel she’s on about media and blogs at a conference next month?
  • RM: public journalism conference in Toronto
    • WK: Can I go in your suitcase?
  • RM: Annual conference of public journalism people
  • RM: Panel with Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis: blogs and the challenge of journalism for a general audience
  • RM: miniconference on convergence before the conference, more panels about blogs and journalism
  • RM: will be involved in a roundtable about blogging internationally and closing dinner
  • RM: plans to emphasize international blogging
• Guest speakers
• Reminder: the meeting the following week will be with the Boston Blog Meetup on Wednesday, July 21, and there will be no meeting at the Berkman Center on Thursday, July 22.
  • If anyone has a major problem with this, bug j.
• makeoutcity.com shirts are available