Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Chatting with the Chief Lizard Wrangler – Mitchell Baker [#drumbeat]

    Well chatting suggests I opened my mouth which I obviously didn’t but it was worthy hour of my life listening in. One of things she opened her discussions with is the lack of a short, sharp elevator pitch for the wider aims of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Manifesto is worthy but too big and…

  • Education is changing before our eyes (because we’re changing it) [#drumbeat]

    Thursday at Drumbeat closed with three talks aimed at representing the mix of missions here at the Festival. Cathy Casserly, Massimo Banzi and Anna Debenham each gave short talks based on their particular perspectives and it made for an interesting mix. Cathy talked through her personal evolution from teacher in Jamaica to open education advocate…

  • Murder, Mayhem and Mystery – Wikipedia in the Classroom

    Back in the summer I listened to Brian Lamb from UBC reference an amazing project at his university where students worked on Wikipedia articles and achieved the extremely rare goal of getting ‘featured’ on the homepage (less than 1% of articles manage this.) Today at Drumbeat I was lucky enough to hear about the project…

  • Bathcamp 3 – The Tweed Knight

    Yesterday I attended the third Bathcamp barcamp. This year it had returned to the Chapel Arts venue in the city centre rather than the departure to literally camping like last year in the middle of nowhere! It was also organised by the tweed-tastic Mr Julian Cheal this year – with Mike Ellis taking an advisory…

  • Simon Buckingham Shum [mozilladrumbeat]

    [as with my other Mozilla Drumbeat posts this can be found originally on the Festival site – I broke the new rules this time and convinced the editorial team to publish it in full as I really enjoyed Simons answers and didn’t see an easy way to condense them..] Given its name it is probably…