February 4th, 2008
New Pitches for the Lab with Leo
My work at the Mozilla Foundation is, not surprisingly, focused on advancing the Mozilla Manifesto.
After my last Firefox 3 segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show, I started thinking about pitches for new segments that tie in with the manifesto.
The rough ideas I've so far had are:
- Deep Customization of Firefox: Make your browser kick even more ass – This segment will show viewers how to get started with authoring Firefox extensions. Writing custom extensions lets you deeply customize Firefox and provides a great way to get started with programming.
- Co-building Wikipedia: Wikipedia is often the top search result for any given topic. While this in itself is cool, the really amazing part is that the website is authored by a loosely knit community of volunteers. This segment teaches you how to help build Wikipedia and gets you started using the awesome power of Wiki software.
- Use the Source: Making the most of Mac OS X's Unix Roots - Thousands of pieces of software are free (and perfectly legal) for the using, if you only know a few little things about using Terminal and Darwin Ports (or Fink). This segment teaches you how to easily find and install industry-grade Open Source software on your Mac.
- Online forum management: It’s 4am. An innocuous-looking thread on your community mailing list has grown into a 500 message flamefest. The good, the bad and the vulgar are mixed together - often even in the same message. There are pleas for sanity, demands for moderation, off-topic rants and paranoid accusations.In short, it is just another day on the net. Who could have thought that a model train mailing list could get so heated? In this segment, we'll cover the basic best practices for keeping community mailing lists sane and teach some essential survival tactics for those who would venture into the flames.
- Don't be a Phish: Every day, online scams trick people out of money, sensitive information and peace of mind. This segment focuses on ways to detect online scams and protect yourself from phishing.
- Squashing Badware: Someone anonymously sent you an electronic card on your birthday. You opened it and now your computer seems to be running really slowly since then. What's going on? This segment provides tips on how to detect and protect yourself from badware (aka viruses, trojans, malware, etc.)
Anyone have any suggestions? I'll keep working up rough ideas until I have five or six that I am happy with.
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February 4th, 2008 at 17:44
[...] on the show. Many thanks to the Mozilla Corporation team for their help. Additionally, I worked up a set of pitches for the Lab with Leo that focus on key aspects of the Mozilla Manifesto, as well as Free Software and Open [...]