Banging the drum for Media Freedom and the Web
I was very excited to invited to the Mozilla Festival which this year was in London. Not only that, it was in South East London. The Mozilla Festival use to be the Drumbeat Festival but got a rename....
View ArticleHighlights of FutureEverything 2014
Another year another good Future Everything festival. It seemed to fly by so quickly and partly because I was roped into the Radio 4 Character invasion day and Vision 2022,thanks for the tweet Julius....
View ArticleApply for a workshop/space with us at Mozfest 2014
There are a number of connected things in my head right now, maybe I should learn how to do hyper-connected mind-maps to make more sense of these different ideas. Mozilla has gone through a lot over...
View ArticleSpace wrangler for the global connected village at #mozfest
I got hoodwinked into spacewrangling at Mozfest again. Not quite sure how it happened again, theres a unwritten rule that unless you flat out reject the invite, you will be involved again . That and...
View ArticleManchester’s first Cocktail Festival
For seven days in August, Manchester is throwing its first ever cocktail festival. Now, we’re a city who enjoys a good slurp on a classic concoction, but even we didn’t see a dedicated festival...
View ArticleLoving my first Tech Open Air Berlin
I was invited to talk at Tech Open Air Berlin (TOA Berlin) a while ago and the week of the event came around much quicker than I thought it would. Because of plans a while before, I had planned to be...
View ArticleWhy I became #Mozfest decentralization spacewrangler?
Back in October I was again a spacewrangler for Mozfest. I haven’t had a proper chance to write-up the experience since I was going from one place to another. Unlike previous years as a spacewrangler,...
View ArticleTalking at Afrotech festival 26th Jan 2018
I haven’t been blogging much recently, mainly because I am writing 3 different presentations. My first big one is for the Afrotech festival, which I have the absolute joy of keynoting at on Friday 26th...
View ArticleMy Edinburgh Fringe festival 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drewm/6314194635/ Its been 11 years since I really went to the Edinburgh festival. Back then I was running BBC Backstage and via some smart people decided to put on the...
View ArticleMoon Festival: 50 years since we landed on the moon!
Every once in a while delight of getting involved with something from near the start of its journey. These types of projects tend to have some very driven but cool people behind it. Livia Filotico is...
View ArticleMozfest’s call for participation 2021
Its been one heck of the year and to be frank 2021 is going to be pandemic driven too. While we all try and find our way in the new normal. Its worth looking at things which have delighted us all. One...
View ArticlePublic Spaces, Private Data: can we build a better internet?
Back last year when we could go to conferences and festivals without fear of the covd19 pandemic. BBC R&D, Mozilla and Publicspaces put on a conference during the Mozilla Festival week. It was a...
View ArticleIts the Mozilla Festival, but not as we knew it…
At the start of March, the Mozilla Festival 2021 started for 2 weeks of Mozfest joy. Unlike previous years this was the year it went completely virtual. There was a lot of concerns how it would work...
View ArticleSociety 5.0 Festival: Creativity, Care, Connect
Its been a busy time but I have the pleasure of going back to the Amsterdam once again for the conference/festival Society 5.0. The tickets are all sold sorry to say but it looks great and its good to...
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