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On Saturday, October 26, 2014, Nathan Matias and I co-facilitated a session at Mozilla Festival on creating “Learning Guides for Community Makers” along with Gabriela Rodriguez, Janet Gunter (@JanetGunter), Linda Sandvik, Vanessa Gennarelli. The main goal of the session was to help participants create a learning guides for other community-focused […]

How can open source and participatory communities like Mozilla support diverse inclusion? Here at the Community Building Track at the Mozilla Festival, an international group of organizers convened to discuss ways to cooperate effectively across gender, age, accessibility, and cultural differences. It’s part of a larger initiative here at the […]

I’m at the 2014 Computation + Journalism symposium at Columbia University. Here’s a quick intro to what we are talking about: “Data and computation drive our world, often without any kind of critical assessment or accountability.  Journalism is adapting responsibly—finding and creating new kinds of stories that respond directly to  […]

Early this year, yet another friend of mine up and died. There was of course a mess of things that had to be figured out. It wasn’t just the traditional things of cleaning out her house (I wasn’t around for that part) or figuring out the funeral (Viking in variety). It […]

Do you have a name? More than one? Does it matter to you who knows it? Today at the Berkman Center, we hosted a talk by aestetix, an expert on pseudonomy online. This post is a liveblog of Aestetix’s talk. After being suspended twice by Google Plus during the nymrights […]