2007/10/11 Proposed Agenda
Do you have blog blahs? What causes them? Did blogging once get you all excited and now it seems more like a chore? Do you need to rekindle your relationship with your weblog? How can we make the blahs go away? Lisa Williams will lead a session on blog blahs.
Upcoming events of interest:
- Pecha Kucha 2: live blogging & such, October 12
- PodCamp, October 26-28
- FOSSCamp, October 27-28
- BarCamp Boston, not in October
- 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:
- 10/18: Maybe a cool techie librarian will stop by
- 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? (and what about the Miro player?)
- Skype: How does it work? Why use it? 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!+
Dean Landsman
October 11, 2007 @ 6:20 pm
All week I intended to write a blog post about the Blog Blahs. I just got around to it. Deadlines are a wonderful thing. Of course, work deadlines are what keep me from blogging a good amount of the time. See more here: http://blog.deanland.com/2007/10/11#a1143