Interview: Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation)
Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation and program chair of Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival, kindly gave me an interview about Drumbeat and why the…
Category: collaboration
Lessons from organizing events with volunteers
Over the last couple years I’ve been involved in a fair number of events, almost all of which were organized on a non-profit basis and only with volunteer…
Wikileaks, Afghanistan & The New Rules Of Engagement
As of two days ago Wikileaks has released 92.000 documents about the war in Afghanistan, leaked (most likely) from within the US military. After discussing this with quite…
Google Collaboratory Report #1
It’s done! Over the course of the last few months I’ve been part of the German Google Collaboratory “Internet & Society”. The expert group is part of Google’s…
Digital Nomads on taz.de
German newspaper taz has a special edition this week: to celebrate its 31st anniversary, the editors under 31 years took over and produced the paper. One of the…
Fluid Intelligence
This is an excellent point. I won’t argue with it, not even a bit. Although of course I’m curious what you think. Chess players who train with computers…
Tag your laptop
In a discussion with Jay Cousins recently we talked about a small problem: If you’re coworking in a cafe or in a coworking space, you sometimes don’t know…