I believe we have an internet literacy problem.
Well over a billion people know how to get online. But a much smaller number understand basic concepts like how to read a URL or how to make a good password. Without these conceptual building blocks, it’s hard to get around, be safe or shape your little corner of the net. Or, as Mitchell might say, it’s hard to have control over your online life. More Better internet literacy: an experiment
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Media, freedom + the web: berlin talk
As I pointed out a while back, this year is Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday. It’s a good time to be thinking about media and the web: in particular about how the free and open medium of the web is shaping all media that came before. Increasingly, this is a theme for Mozilla Drumbeat in 2011. More Media, freedom + the web: berlin talk
The Next Million Mozillians (redux)
A little over two years ago, I did a bunch of posts about the idea of recruiting ‘the next million Mozillians’. My thinking at the time: we need to grow our community dramatically. We need to build even more creativity, reach and resilience into who we are. This is how we build a 100 year organization for the open web. More The Next Million Mozillians (redux)
Definitions: media, freedom, web.
I had a good conversation with John Udell the other day (thanks!). We were making a list of concepts people need to internalize if they want to think like the web. The next morning, a particular concept jumped to mind: Openendedness. The web is never finished. It’s built to be built on. More Definitions: media, freedom, web.
McLuhan, freedom and the web
If he were still with us, Marshall McLuhan would turn 100 this year. What to get him for his birthday? I’d get him LEGO. Partly because LEGO’s fun. But mostly because it’s a great metaphor for open-ended nature of the web. As a medium, the web has one big message: build me. More McLuhan, freedom and the web
Drumbeat in 3 bullets
Melissa Shapiro recently ran our team through a media training. She pushed us hard to come up with the three bullet Drumbeat elevator pitch. Here is what we came up with: More Drumbeat in 3 bullets
Drumbeat: what’s next?
We’re eight months into Drumbeat. We’ve built a bit of a brand. People are interested. They want to get involved. More importantly: new people have shown up. Educators. Filmmakers. Artists. Not Mozilla natives. These new people are doing interesting things. And their peers are noticing. More Drumbeat: what’s next?
How the web was won: a talk
Over the past two years, I’ve given talks on many Mozilla topics. How a massive global community can (and did) make the web better. Threats and challenges ahead for the internet. The importance of ‘the people formerly known as users‘ in keeping the web open (aka Drumbeat). Earlier this summer, I had the chance to pull all these threads together in a talk called How the Web Was Won. More How the web was won: a talk
Open web definition for drumbeat.org
A common Drumbeat questions is ‘what do you mean by open web?‘ Having a solid answer is especially critical as reach out to teachers, lawyers, filmmakers and other people new to Mozilla. More Open web definition for drumbeat.org
New Drumbeat blurb, needs feedback
This week I’ve been recrafting the basic messaging for Mozilla Drumbeat. What I’ve written is short and simple, without much detail. I believe this is what we need for people new to Drumbeat. More New Drumbeat blurb, needs feedback