The webcast starts at or just before 7pm on Thursdays, when our meeting starts, and ends when the meeting ends.
To listen to the live stream, you'll need an MP3 player capable of receiving audio streams (using HTTP). Most halfway decent MP3 players can do this, including Winamp, Windows Media player, Audio (Mac), iTunes, XMMS, and others. If you're not sure you can handle this, go to shoutcast.com and try listening to some of the streaming radio stations there. If those work, you can listen to our meeting. If you want to load a URL directly into your MP3 player, use:
http://rura.org:8000/stream
If your email client shows a clickable link, try this one:
http://rura.org:8000/stream.m3u
(it should launch an mp3 player on the stream).
Note that the stream will not work except during the meeting. No call letters, not even dead silence, just *no stream*.
You can check the status of the webcast at:
http://rura.org:8000/
If you see an "Icecast Status Page" with a blank box, it means the stream is not currently active. If you see a stream, that's what you want. If you can't connect, then my server may be disabled for some reason and you might want to let me know.
If you want to do more than listen, join the IRC (chat) channel:
irc://irc.freenode.net/berkmanbloggroup
That's #berkmanbloggroup on server irc.freenode.net.
All of this information, as well as our agenda, is always available on our blog:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thursdaymeetings