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Berkman Weblogger Meeting Notes Feb 19, 2004

♦ Rick Heller reported, with comments from DaveW, on attending a talk earlier in the day by David Jones, who raised a lot of money to produce and present three Dean attack ads. [Rick has now blogged more details about this.]

♦ Continuation of the ongoing conversation about the role of the interntet/blogs in the presidential campaign. "What happens to the Dean campaign now?" "A movement?" "Build infrastructure?"

"Dean was bloggable." -- DaveW

♦ We did some concrete planning for BloggerConII.

Tentative date April 3 [Dave now says possible the 10th]. The beginnings of an agenda here. [I'm looking for a link to Dave's notes. In the meantime here are Jay's notes for the whole meeting. Scroll down for the BloggerConII agenda suggestions.]

One BloggerCon subject that got a strong response: "Blogging the Conventions". Emphasis on BOTH conventions.

♦ Once again we made dinner plans midway through the evening!!!

♦ Rick H and Jay McCarthy described the upcoming appearence of musician who blogs, Dr Frank. Sunday 9pm (am?) at MiddleEast in Central Sq.

♦ DaveW introduced "Ash" who is an associate of Jim Moore.

"I was just learning about blogging and I discovered that my 13 year old daughter is blogging. She calls it 'profiling'" ("A persistent form of IMing," someone said.)

Among other things, Ash was involved with the initial business planning for AT&T's WorldNet service. The first (one of the first?) fixed price, unlimited access ISP.

Dave said that he, Jim, and Ash met the night before and talked about what comes after the Dean campaign? "Is there a business here?"

♦ Sooz talked about her project "Exploit Boston". She's looking for "conspirators" to contribute citizen journalist content to the site. "The independent web is important to me."

♦ Andrew Grumet showed the latest version of his ongoing investigation into data-mining the Share Your Feeds info.

Latest: Show feeds like your feed.

♦ Dinner. As we walked down to the Bombay I had interesting conversation with Grumet about his RSSTV project. I also talked with Sooz about being a co-conspirator.

I couldn't stay for dinner, so I left them as they sat down.

Posted by jackhodgson at February 20, 2004 02:09 PM