Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Q and A with Nathan Yergler for Mozilla Drumbeat

    This is my full Q and A with Nathan Yergler, the CTO of Creative Commons. The summary was published on the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival blog. What are you going to do in Barcelona? I’m coming to Barcelona for both Drumbeat and OpenEd. At OpenEd I’ll be presenting a paper on OER search and discovery that…

  • Q and A with Brian Lamb for Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

    [this post was originally published at http://www.drumbeat.org/content/qa-brian-lamb] Brian Lamb is a ‘Strategist and Discoordinator‘ at the University of British Columbia and one of the mainstays of the Open Education Conference. He was also instrumental in coining the term ‘edupunk‘ (for better or worse!). He is in Barcelona primarily for OpenEd where as well as being…

  • Trying out AirBnB..

    I’ve decided to try a bit of an experiment with my arrangements for my travel to the Drumbeat Festival. While I did succumb to the cheapness of a SleazyJet flight rather than my original idea of getting the train to Barcelona I am determined to get out of my comfort zone with the rest of…

  • Can you hear the [Drumbeat] Fernando?

    With apologies to the Swedish pop legends for the title but it seemed appropriate 🙂 Amongst the various bits of good news this week was the fact I have been accepted to be a volunteer publicity blogger for the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. In return for writing a few blogposts (which will be cross posted here…

  • Alpha anxiety

    This afternoon I invited the first handful of people to test Eventstreams. This is a nervy moment it has to be said as while I am sure what Stef has built is of the highest quality there is nothing to say my initial idea won’t be ridiculed as a pointless waste of time! Thankfully the…