Digital by Default

I’ve committed to writing up an overview of my experiences at Drumbeat but I am going to give myself a little distance before I settle down to do that but I wanted to get some general impressions of the trip down. There were alot of little wins for me on the logistical front – I…

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…

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…

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…