09/29/2005 Meeting Notes
These notes are a best effort. Blog your corrections and commentary.
Attendees:
BS: Brett Stilwell
AW: Amanda Watlington
j: j
D: Dustin from a ‘little known program in the Law School,’ magicpants.net, read the post about scavenging
DEF: Deborah Finn
JD: Jared Dunn
EG: Erica George
MS: Marshall Spriggs, Notes from the Cafe Fiasco
RF: Randy Fenstermacher
LB: Lynn Baer
BW: Bill Wedell
Mary
AH: Ann House
SJ: SJ Klein
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- Introductions
- Brief report-backs from cool events this week:
- Bill Ives at Berkman’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, 9/27
- D: talked about the situation broached in the talk where someone claimed Italian bloggers were spreading bad information about his company
- blogs are different because there’s no oversight; if it was a newspaper, the business would have legal recourse
- suggests finding Italian bloggers to counterblog the other blog
- AW: sometimes feeding them makes things worse, gives them more fodder
- D: talked about the situation broached in the talk where someone claimed Italian bloggers were spreading bad information about his company
- Jim Reese, formerly of Google, talks about the search engine on Wednesday, 9/28, 4 pm, 115 Maxwell Dworkin
- no one went
- Bill Ives at Berkman’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, 9/27
- Announcement: Vlogger gathering, Sunday, October 9, 6 pm
- If anyone cool from MIT’s tech conference shows up, let’s let them talk.
- $$$ for guest speakers
- Sometimes, the group might incur expenses relating to speakers being here. How do we want to handle this?
- Avoid the expenses at all costs?
- Pay for some expenses out of pocket?
- Or … ?
- We’ll talk more on the list
- Sometimes, the group might incur expenses relating to speakers being here. How do we want to handle this?
- occasionally switching days to accommodate guest speakers
- meeting on Thursday is pretty important to people
- we can do things not on Thursday, but still meet on Thursday
- j wants to present pieces of a draft of her upcoming talk on feeds to librarians so she can get, well, feedback
- Harvard Gazette headlines via RSS!!!!
- Harvard Gazette headlines via RSS!!!!
- Upcoming:
- Next week: Amanda Watlington on blogs and search engines and stuff
- Tuesday 10/11: A guest blogger you won’t want to miss: Hoder!
- How does Yom Kippur affect our meeting on 10/13? Should we meet?
- We’ll still meet.
- Do something with Hoder, maybe something informal, like dinner
- How does Yom Kippur affect our meeting on 10/13? Should we meet?
- 10/20: First joint meeting with the Boston Weblogger Meetup Group
- 3rd Thursday of the month
- 10/27: something wiki this way comes with the Wikipedia Meetup folks
- 11/3: Archiving weblogs, as in how archives that are interested in saving diaries might preserve blogs
- Potential topics:
- Semantic Web
- the folks behind reddit, a community news site
- What else?
- sending Berkman events to the list
- EG’s going to send an e-mail to the list inviting people to subscribe to the Berkman events list
- Eat:
- Last week: ??
