Mozilla Maker Party by Willow Brugh and Rogelio Alejandro Lopez Cambridge Event: https://webmaker.org/events/328 Organizing Doc: Link What Mozilla Web Maker parties are about: learning how to not only use the web, but also how to make and share it. This summer saw an initiative to build up the community around […]
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I spent this past weekend in Michigan for Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry Ford. There was a lot to see, but I was particularly interested in the hacker/makerspaces. When you hear news about Detroit, it’s usually in reference to the many troubles facing the region, like the city’s recent […]
A summary of my Media Lab Master’s thesis, cross-posted from my personal site, because, well, there are a lot more people over here. Unlike my thesis readers, who may or may not have made it through all 244 pages, you get to experience the condensed version. The full PDF is […]
“Sometimes you wake up and realise that you want to change the world.” Last week, Mark Simpkins wrote a blog post about how hard it is to know what to do if we want to create change. “When do I create a pledge? When do I contact my MP? When […]
During an entrepreneurial journalism fellowship at CUNY J-School, I met Contently co-founder Shane Snow, who helped to craft the startup’s original manifesto: “The delineation between ‘media company’ and any other enterprise is no longer relevant; we embrace the notion that any entity – brand, nonprofit, news organization, or individual – can be […]