Mozilla Manifesto Dance Remix
Over the last few years, I’ve given a lot of presentations where I mention the Mozilla Manifesto and encourage the audience to go read it. For some reason, I don’t get the impression that this has profoundly increased the number of people who remember that there is a manifesto, let alone the number who’ve given it a careful read.
A few weeks back, before the NorthWest MozDev meeting in Victoria, I was mulling over how to give people the gist of the manifesto in a quick, interesting and meaningful way while hopefully piquing their interest enough that they will to go read the full document.
So, I fed a lightly massaged copy text of the manifesto into the groovy Wordle.net service and had an attractive weighted list/word cloud.
Mozilla Manifesto Word Cloud
In my presentation for NW MozDev, I made a few edits to highlight parts of the manifesto – in particular, how how it is weighted to issues related to people and to values.
I think that we can a lot more to make the Manifesto more relevant/read/easy to digest. What ideas do you have? 
p.s. So it isn’t much of a dance remix as there isn’t any dancing or music, but at least it is colorful on a dark background, which is vaguely like a dance club in the eighties. 
p.p.s. The massaging in question was – if I recall correctly – to remove instances of “Mozilla Corporation”, “Mozilla Foundation” & “Mozilla Manifesto”. While these phrases make the text document more precise, they clog up the word cloud.
Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 07:27
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December 11th, 2008 at 10:46
Love it. Helpful to see the Manifesto through this lens. If we do the Manifesto video confessions project, it’d be interesting to Wordle a transcript of what everyone says, and then compare.