Mozilla, an inclusive space
Working with Open Badges has drawn me into the Mozilla orbit regularly over the last year, even though I am not an employee of Mozilla the Company or Foundation. Going to the Mozilla Summit in October was really interesting, particularly because I got to see how this big crazy community works ( and it is […]
A badge describes a relationship
I have been collecting definitions of Open Badges, the online credentialing technology developed by Mozilla. My own current definition is this: Open badges are web-enabled tokens that recognize achievement, like merit badges you might have received in the real world. Anyone can issue a badge, receive one, verify that a badge is real, or see […]
A Technical Description of the Distributed Validation of Open Badges… and Why
Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills lead for the Mozilla Foundation, fields a great volume of the open badges community’s questions. He passed along one of those questions that fell more on the technical side to the community call last week: Someone asked me a question today about how to find out more about how decentralised […]
Badges for Libraries
On Monday, I hosted a short conversation on possibilities for using open badges in libraries as part of a series of community conversations with people interested in Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure. The raw notes we took during the session are located here. For background on the topic, we read “Badging the Library” by Ahniwa Ferrari. […]
House of Cards and Bravery
Imagine the kind of world that would exist if Netflix had all TV or movie content. From a consumer standpoint, the value of Netflix subscriptions would be great. The cord-cutting the cable industry has been dreading would finally occur. The value of TV advertising would be absolutely obliterated. That’s scary to the people who get […]
What is relevant to the search user: your site or a ROGUE site?
The Copyright Alliance (an organization committed to “upholding the contributions of copyright to the fiscal health of this nation and for the good of creators, owners and consumers around the world”) has a new post up for Valentines Day lamenting that some SOPA opponents, who at first seemed to agree on the need to battle […]
For #SOPA Blackout day: a challenge to make things better
Today, many important websites are “going dark” to protest the anti-piracy bills working their way through the US Congress. I’m joining in this protest, because I think the bills would “break” the Internet as we know it, as the only medium known to humanity that could enable virtually anyone to access speech published by virtually […]
New Net Neutrality Negativity News
A quick note on the news: The FCC voted in new “Net Neutrality” rules on Tuesday, that have been criticized from many angles: Why everyone hates new net neutrality rules—even NN supporters. Regulation should serve to create the sort of marketplace that incentivizes innovation and the improvement of services for the public. Neutrality rules that […]
My goals, for posterity.
I just updated my LinkedIn profile for the first time in forever. They asked me to put up a summary of my goals, so I wrote this. I’ll post it here as well to look back on some years down the line. I will certainly specialize in one particular area, but for now my goals […]
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