Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

• Sun: Know anything about CSS, CSS positioning?
  • JD: CSS Layout Techniques
• Warren: Is it a good idea to let other people post on your blog?
  • are group blogs successful?
  • j: sometimes, depends on the bloggers, purpose of the blog
• Warren: What do Berkman Fellows do anyway?
  • RM: Whatever we want, using it as a place to get things started
  • DW: teaching and research is what he’s doing
  • SR: What other Berkman fellows can we lure to meetings? Ethan Zuckerman?
• SR: Josh Ain and he have a 45-minute presentation is that too long? We can shorten it to make it more appropriate.
  • MF: maybe
  • test run in early September
• RM: Tell us about Frassle
  • SR: Gave his Frassle spiel, demonstrated Frassle’s nifty threaded comments
  • JD2: the duplicate posts from an original blog post showing up elsewhere on the blog as a threaded comment is something weird
  • RF said some very insulting things about Shimon
  • SR: can I make something to do automatic programming for me?
    
  • DW: Double byte?
    • SR: No, but easy to switch will do it perhaps with next upgrade
  • Pito Salas is supposedly working on something similar to Frassle
  • DW: ThreadsML helps with threading
    • SR: understanding how threading and whatnot works will make it more usable
  • DW: group blogs: how can I pull only my blog entries into the publisher?
    • SR: can do it if you use a particular identifying feature, like a category or byline, that comes through in the feed
  • RM: video and audio blogging
    • SR: torn on things like that: would be nice, but it’s not unique
    • RM: it’s necessary because lots of different people want to do it
• Scott Johnson is engaged. “Congratulations, Scott!” said just about everyone in the room when j announced the news.