{"id":56,"date":"2005-05-16T14:55:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/upcoming-topics-on-our-schedule\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T00:11:16","slug":"upcoming-topics-on-our-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/upcoming-topics-on-our-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Topics on our Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a328'><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming Topics on our Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>          The topics and dates listed below are confirmed for future meetings of the Thursday blog group. Not every week will have a set topic, and topics for future weeks are subject to addition and change. Changes will be noted here. If you&#8217;d like to see something discussed, have a suggestion for a speaker, or would like to visit the blog group and talk with us about a project of your own, please make a suggestion at a Thursday meeting, or make a post to the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/berkman-thursday\/\">group discussion list<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps soon:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklin.com\/\">Dan Bricklin<\/a>, known for his work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklin.com\/visicalc.htm\">VisiCalc<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/danbricklin.com\/log\/2005_11_09.htm#wikicalc\">wikiCalc<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toptensources.com\">TopTenSources.com<\/a> (launched, with Berkman-affiliated staff including the blog group&#8217;s former fearless leader, Wendy Koslow)\n<p>Future possibilities:<br \/>\n(If one of these strikes you as awesome, consider volunteering to help shepherd the topic from dream to reality!)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Johnson and Ookles\n<li>Lots of Berkman folks are involved in the Internet filtering and China stuff that&#8217;s been in the news recently. What will it take to get someone to talk to us about it?\n<li>Get Rebecca &amp; Ethan to take us on a deeper tour of Global Voices, its impact on social movements, social movements online in general\n<li>Steven Berlin Johnson can tell us that pop-cultural things we thought were bad for us really aren&#8217;t, and we can be happy about gorging on actually!smart!TV\n<li>Eyebeam (Jonah Perretti, et al)\n<li>Convergence Culture &amp; the MIT Comparative Media Studies folks\n<li>Tim Jarrett: online traffic&#8211;what the difference is between a visit and a page view, how do you get those wonderful stats, what does &#8220;no referrer&#8221; really mean.\n<li>Rescheduling the why Blog \/ Blogging 101 video show\n<li>Dan Kennedy\n<li>Wade Rousch: Continuous partial attention (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/05\/08\/issue\/feature_social.asp?p=0\">one article<\/a>)\n<li>RSS remixing\n<li>Outer Limits: What not to blog\n<li>Ivan Askwith on celebrity blogs\n<li>Cameron Marlow no longer lives in Boston. Perhaps we can get him to do a remote presentaion on his doctoral research on blogs.\n<li>Blogging from jail, disasters\n<li>Blogging communities on Livejournal\n<li>Political blogging in the off season\n<li>vlogging stuff, aggregators\n<li>Boston IndyMedia (which means we should let the Wikinews folks talk to counter)\n<li>Anonymous Lawyer (Jeremy Blachman, HLS alum)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.fletcher.tufts.edu\/rss4lib\/\">RSS4Lib<\/a> guy Ken Varnum, who&#8217;s at Tufts, on RSS for libraries\n<\/ul>\n<p>Past Schedule &#8211; 2006:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4\/20\/06: Hopefully, Amanda can round up some people from the Webmasters conference in Boston. (Thanks, Amanda!)\n<li>4\/6\/06: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarvin.com\/\">Andy Carvin<\/a>, bandwidth waster, international traveler, blogger, sharer of fabulous tails and tales, who does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarvin.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/searching_for_r.html\">really important things<\/a>, will tell us about his new book, available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarvin.com\/from-the-ground-up.pdf\">pdf<\/a> or for free from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecentre.org\/thebook\">link<\/a>.\n<li>2\/23\/06: Critt Jarvis: &#8220;So you&#8217;re a citizen journalist? Prove it!&#8221; Or, How I practice citizen journalism on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/\">Newsvine<\/a>.\n<li>2\/2\/06: Holmes Wilson of <a href=\"http:\/\/participatoryculture.org\/\">Participatory Culture Foundation<\/a>, on their DTV project. [The Participatory Culture Foundation is building software and web tools to create an independent, creative, engaging, and meritocratic TV system for millions of people around the world.] (Thanks to Nathan Woodhull for coordinating!)\n<li>1\/26\/06: HLS Assistant Dean for Admissions Toby Stock on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/admissions\/jd\/blog\/\">J.D. Admissions Blog<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Past Schedule &#8211; 2005:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 19: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/05\/16#a327\">Livejournal: Not Just For Teenaged Girls Anymore<\/a> (Josh Ain)\n<li>May 26: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/05\/20#a331\">Tagging is Fabulous! It&#8217;s Also Crap!<\/a> (Shimon Rura)\n<li>June 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/05\/20#a332\">Why Do You Blog?\/Blogging 101 Film Festival<\/a> (Michael Feldman) &#8211; POSTPONED, Reschedule date TBA\n<li>June 9: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/05\/20#a333\">Blogging As Performance Art<\/a> (Group trip to the ICA!)\n<li>June 16: Special guest, TBA (Urs Gasser of Berkman)\n<li>June 23: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/05\/15#a326\">Wiki Wonderland<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/\">Sam Klein<\/a>) PLUS <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/ilaw\">iLaw<\/a>-related bloggers&#8217; tutorial with <a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/\">Rebecca MacKinnon<\/a>.\n<li>June 30: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/06\/19#a345\">Foodblogs<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/billives.typepad.com\/portals_and_km\/\">Bill Ives<\/a>)\n<li>July 7: Boston Area Nonprofit Bloggers (Beth Kanter, Ben DiMaggio, Brian Reich &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com\/blog\">Deborah Elizabeth Finn<\/a>)\n<li>July 14: SCHEDULE CHANGE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\">Dave Winer<\/a>, Blog Group founder and former Berkman fellow, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2005\/07\/12#a367\">visits Berkman<\/a>, topic: &#8220;OPML, podcasting, and any thing else people want to talk about&#8221;\n<li>July 21: Podcasting, Gigadial, and Satellite Radio (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accidenthash.com\/\">CC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/music.podshow.com\/\">Chapman<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/ipodder.sourceforge.net\/\">Andrew<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigadial.net\/\">Grumet<\/a>)\n<li>July 28: TENTATIVE RESCHEDULE: How To Have A Nice Little Traffic Jam: Understanding How Search Engines Read Your Blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/amandawatlington.typepad.com\/\">Amanda<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchingforprofit.com\/\">Watlington<\/a>)\n<li>Aug. 4: Report-back from those of us attending BlogHer (7\/30 in California)\n<li>Aug. 11: Marketing the group and Harvard&#8217;s blog server to incoming students\n<li>Aug. 18: Wendy&#8217;s sendoff!!! (Farewell!)\n<li>September meetings (To be listed)\n<li>10\/6: How To Have A Nice Little Traffic Jam: Understanding How Search Engines Read Your Blog by <a href=\"http:\/\/amandawatlington.typepad.com\/\">Amanda Watlington<\/a>\n<li>10\/13: 2 cancelled guests &#8211;&gt; informal dinner instead\n<li>10\/27: Something wiki this way comes with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Meetup\/Boston\">Wikipedia Meetup<\/a> folks.\n<li>11\/3: Manila session\n<li>11\/10: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/\">reddit<\/a>, a community news site\n<ul>\n<li>after blog group at 8: Annalee Newitz of EFF on Girl Geeks and feminist tech culture<\/ul>\n<li>11\/17: 2nd Third Thursday joint meeting with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.meetup.com\/3\/\">Boston Weblogger Meetup Group<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we want to add more structure to the official &#8220;free-form&#8221; meeting for next month?<\/ul>\n<li>11\/24: Vegetarian Indian food at India Palace (heh.)\n<li>12\/1: Berkman&#8217;s Luis Villa on H2O, Berkman&#8217;s educational software\n<li>12\/8: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/\">Garrett<\/a> and j on something blogish and librarianish\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Topics on our Schedule The topics and dates listed below are confirmed for future meetings of the Thursday blog group. 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