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A gathering of smart people using the web<br>

to bend, hack and reinvent media.

'''The bendable, hackable, remixable nature of the web has dramatically changed the media landscape.''' Television. Radio. News. Comics. Music. Books. All have been engulfed by the technology and culture of the internet. Or, as grand media meister McLuhan put it: TV, radio, books, etc. have become the content of the web.

So here is the question: '''what do we want this webified media landscape to look like when it grows up?''' Keyboard Cat or Hollywood? Al Jazeera or the evening newshour? Punk rock or big labels? If you make media, build the web or both, you've got a say in this. The web is lego. You can build whatever nifty, fun, creative, innovative version of the media future you like.  

Which is exactly the point of this year's Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: to gather smart people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent the media. We'll spend three days throwing down '''design jams, hackfests, writing workshops, tech teach ins, science fairs and parties that pull the best of modern web technology and technique into the world of media making.''' Whether you're a web geek who makes media or a media nerd who love the web, this is an event you shouldn't miss.