Developer, data-wrangler and advocate of technology for good and awesome.
Wondering why I’m blogging about this? Read more about my quest for badges! I’ve recently decided to take part in the Webmaking 101 series on P2PU, despite having done the whole web development thing for over a decade. Some of you will probably be going wondering why; the answer is pretty simple. Badges. Open Badges are an exciting concept in allowing people to record and display just how awesome they are. Badges are generated using an open standard, can be stored effortlessly (they’re just an image), and more importantly can be independently verified. This leads to...