Topic
- Weblog Writer's Meeting on 2004/02/19
- Disclaimer
- These notes are a best effort.
- Blog your corrections and commentary.
- Email me for removal of crediting.
- Webcast Details
- This will be webcast
- And recorded for later on RealMedia (possibly MP3 as well)
- Chat back on #bloggercon!!
- RO will be speaking for IRCers
- Attendants
- JM: Jay McCarthy
- CJ: Critt Jarvis
- SZ: Sooz
- JH: Jack Hodgson
- MW: Mike Walsh
- DW: Dave Winer
- RH: Rick Heller
- AG: Andrew Grumet
- TG: Tom Griffin
- SR: Shimon Rura
- JA: Josh Ain
- MF: Michael Feldman
- M: Madhu
- First Timers
- Guy from MIT missed his name - From Japan and Switzerland
- Ash - Friend of Jim Moore's
- Past Attendants
- SN: Sun
- JB: Jessica Baumgart
- SF: Seth Finkelstein
- BS: Bob Stepno
- RO: Ryan Overbey
- LW: Lisa Williams
- Single
- S: Stephen
- PS: Pito Salas
- BA: Bob Atkinson
- DO: Dermot O'Rourke, from IAP
- FT: Fons Tuinstra
- AS: Aaron Swartz
- HB: Hank Barry
- R: Rebecca
- SJ: Scott Johnson
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- VN: Vernica
- MM: Matt May
- G: Gregor
- LM: Larry Mils
- JH: Jeffrey Henning
- JiM: Jim Moore
- TA: Tracy Adams
- BD: Betsy Devine
- SP: Steve Pomeroy
- GE: Garrett Eastman
- CL: Christopher Lydon
- Topics
- Microphone update
- Good microphone didn't come
- MW brought an MP3 recorder
- Rick, Mike, and Rebecca went to Meeting about Something w/ David Jones
- Rebecca is a journalism fellow
- Works with CNN
- Wants to "change the theme"
- David Jones is a political "hit man"
- Did the anti-Dean ads
- [ Rick Heller took notes... they will probably be on his blog ]
- Raised from 600k from 26 donors for this
- New system allows you to "hit" for any amount of money
- Not for a party or candidate, a pro-Democrat
- DW: Trying to delete a candidate, lots of people were angry, he's a gunslinger - "These guys are the enemy."
- [ Talk about Republicans as endangered ]
- DW: How do you have a re-election with these spoilers?
- MF: What if we did obligatory voting in America?
- DW: What if it was more like jury duty? You had to talk to people.
- DW quoting: Dean is becoming like the Grateful Dead - People follow the money
- DW: (What can you do with the money?) Why are you going to give it to the enemies?
- DW wants to build a weblog infrastructure... from the united states and the whole world for discussion
- MF: Note of caution: Danger of politicians have a handle on blogs... don't think of it as where the money comes from
- DW: Why do we care what the politicians think?
- MF: What about the Bush blogs? They're be great -- and will the format be open?
- DW: Wants to start with a platform and find a candidate (or grow one)
- SZ: What if you're not online?
- DW: Why should that hold us back?
- [ Digital Divide ]
- MF: Look at how reading grew with the printing press
- RH: [ The echo chamber ]
- DW: The nice thing about jury duty is consensus is necessary
- TG: Jury duty is focused, the Dean blogs is not very focused
- The BloggerCon
- DW: We're ready, Let's think about it
- MF: Same time as the Democratic Convention
- Old Plan - Day 1 and Day 2
- New Plan - Just do Day 2
- ?: Will the Dean excitement go away?
- MF: Let's have a "Blogging the Convention" aspect AND techy stuff
- JH: Grid suggestion, RSS-TV
- MIT-MAN: Blogging the ConventionS (both of them)
- DW: This is important, don't want to create the same mistake of biasness
- MF: We're not trying to be "objective journalist"
- [ Hospitals and technology ]
- [ Education and Literature ]
- RH: These should be session'd
- SZ: Party the night before
- DW: We need to make sure there is no product placement
- [ Want to have it on Saturday when the weather is nice ]
- April 3rd
- Not a Flash conference
- Where are we eating?
- Cambridge One - TOO BUSY
- Bombay Club
- Dean and Blogging
- [ Dean was chosen by the bloggers ]
- [ In the Big Tent Movement, the people should be chosen from the ranks or found from potentials ]
- MF: People who agree not on the values/laws (like a party) but on the process (or that the process should be different)
- DW: "Voter Support System"
- Fight the mis-information system... the Republican talking points
- M: Iowa revelation... Dad didn't think the youth vote would actually vote
- RH: Dr. Frank's band, MTX, is playing
- Ash - Started a company with Jim
- DW > Brainstorming about what's next after Dean
- DW: Is Ash interested in blogs?
- Ash > Talking
- My daughter blogs
- Intense interest in communications and new media for them
- Worked with WorldNet... pushing open standards
- DW: What's the legacy of Internet politics? A media company?
- Publication grounded in balanced viewpoint
- [ Respect intelligence ]
- Is there business here?
- MF: [ Questions about Blogger and Google ]
- Sooz & Exploit Boston
- Exploit Boston is a Boston Guide/Event-list
- Organizing about citizen journalism
- Shimon on Aggregators
- Interesting point: Different ways to get what goes into an aggregator
- Manual, Automatic, Curated
- Andrew and SYO
- Not Discussed but Mentioned
- Next Week Topics
- Decide on a software product
- Talk about salons
- Blogging Center
- MS IE team
- Hosting for Presidential candidates
- Come back to Hank Barry
- DW talk about inclusion in Channel Z
- Behind the scenes of Frontier
- Notes