In Boston this week, I asked Hacks/Hackers galactic coordinator Jenny8Lee how they started bringing journalists and developers together. She said: “Hacks/Hackers events are a part of the DIY empire. We give people an event template and they run with it. It works well.” As MoJo is very much about hacks and hackers hacking news, I asked Jenny to say more: More Interview: Jenny8Lee, hacks and hackers
The challenge: reinvent ‘TV news’ online
Recently, we’ve seen a huge change in video online. The advent of web native <video> makes it possible to mash up moving images with social media, tie clips to data from across the web or, more simply, create simple transcript-based interfaces for navigating long pieces of video. Yet, despite the these capabilities, we’ve seen almost nothing in the way of new kinds of storytelling. Telling stories with video online today looks pretty much the same as it did when I used to shoot local TV news 20 years ago. More The challenge: reinvent ‘TV news’ online
MoJo Interview: popcorn, video and news
I asked Mozilla Web Made Movies Lead Brett Gaylor excites him about news and video on the web today. He said: “Open video can help re-establish journalism as the fifth estate.” As the first Knight Mozilla news challenge topic is about video, I asked Brett to say more about this: More MoJo Interview: popcorn, video and news
MoJo interview: Al Jazeera + innovation
I asked Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Nanabhay what excites him about news innovation on the web today. He said: “I’m excited by the sheer velocity of change going on. The web has taken the concept of live news and stretched it to the limit”. As a part of our joint work on the MoJo, I asked Mohamed to say more about this: More MoJo interview: Al Jazeera + innovation
MoJo news challenge: what is it?
Earlier this week, Mozilla and Knight launched our first news innovation challenge (aka MoJo). We’ve had good buzz, but also people saying ‘what is this thing?‘ More MoJo news challenge: what is it?
Better internet literacy: an experiment
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
Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla
Earlier this week, Michelle Thorne joined Mozilla to lead and roll out key pieces of our events strategy. The first order of business is teeing up the 2011 Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. As the flip charts show, we started work on that earlier today. From there, Michelle will work with user engagement and others to develop a local event organizing toolkit that can be used widely across the Mozilla community. More Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla
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
Mozilla + Science: Beijing talk
We’re in the early stages of exploring citizen science as a Mozilla Drumbeat theme. The idea would be simple: use the talent and creativity of web developers to help scale participation in volunteer science. More Mozilla + Science: Beijing talk
Join Mozilla beta. Help us test and refine.
Building on months of planning and discussion, we released a beta version of the Join Mozilla supporter’s program today. This will give us a chance to test the program and gather feedback in English and German before launching the full program in Q2 2011. More Join Mozilla beta. Help us test and refine.