Are these the right levels? This whole area seems like such a patchwork of systems, where you have to understand the whole stack and how it interoperates.

I've focused on web & Internet concepts, but completely skipped anything to do with images, video, or audio. Also skipped are anything related to web etiquette / legal topics, such as links as attribution, basics of quoting, fair use, copyright, etc.

Saving the Internet

I'm quite passionate about the Internet, mostly because of all the great people I've met that live there. Open source, open data, and just the basic human nature of communication, sharing, and connecting online are great things, and we should try and get better at it. Ironically, I've spent a lot of time taking online connections and trying to move them to offline in-person events.

I'm going to try and "level up" a few people, perhaps by running a Mozilla "Kitchen Table" event in the next couple of months.

I'd also like to continue the discussion about what web literacy means. How and where should we be teaching it? Libraries and universities both some like institutions that should be taking part in this. Are these types of levels useful? I've enjoyed Peter Rawsthorne's explorations into Mozilla's Open Badges – could we define and create badges for web literacy?

Echoing both Reilly's Friday morning talk and Blaine's Saturday keynote, the Internet does need our help. At the center, it needs civility, discourse, and education. At its edges, it needs wildness and experimentation.

Footnotes

¹Registrars, DNS, and Web Hosting: I keep meaning to write up a simple explanation of this, but it seems like a mini tutorial on its own when you consider diving down into things like IP addresses and sideways to concepts like domainers, typo squatters, and more. I just tell people to not use GoDaddy and use NameCheap instead and consider it a win for now.