Tell Me How The Spark Caught Flame
I want you to tell me the story of how you got started with the Net.
Tell me how your passion was sparked and why it keeps coming to full flame.
Tell me why the Net matters to you, even after all of the long days, short nights and wrecked weekends.
I've been writing my story because I [...]
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Hitchhiking the Information Superhighway
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"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I like beginnings. This is a constant. In primary school, I tried to re-invent arithmetic. My D&D characters were be obsessively re-rolled [...]
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Back to the Beginning
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"When a job went wrong, you went back to the beginning. And this is where we got the job. So it's the beginning, and I'm staying till Vizzini comes." — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride [...]
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Settling in for a Winter's Blogfest
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Christmas is nearly upon the Christian and Consumerist parts of the globe. Along much of my latitude, snow is piling up in record quantities and weather warnings abound. Even in oft-green Vancouver, there is a foot or so of the [...]
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The Baden-Württemberg Brief
Two days in Frankfurt, two days in Munderkingen and two days in Heidelberg between December 5th and 17th. Mostly just ordinary working and travel days.
Visited Sandro Groganz of Init Marketing in Munderkingen. Worked from Sandro's house after a nice dinner on Sunday.
Caught up with (and was interviewed by) Rory MacDonald of Init Marketing while he [...]
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Externalities Win
Earlier this year, I gave a presentation at Münchner Kreis' Leadership by Open Innovation in the Telecoms, IT and Media Industries event. What follows is a rough transcript of my presentation. I recognise that it has flaws, but may still provide some useful neuron twiddling for readers. :) I'm happy for feedback and suggestions.
Externalities Win: [...]
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The Paris Brief
Spent from December 7th until 14th in Paris.
Attended the AFUP Forum PHP.
Provided opening keynote for event. (Slides here.)
Well-attended, well-run event.
500 people over two days.
Some excellent sessions - including a security session by Damien Seguy that needed to be given twice to meet demand.
Small exhibition hall with a mix of local (like Anaska) and international (like [...]
Terraforming the Earth (but for who?)
Scientists from the Zurich School of Applied Sciences have built a video simulation that displays the flight path of every commercial flight in the world over a 24-hour period. Data for the simulation was gathered from FlightStats and the team reportedly found the simulation rather simple to put together.
On one level, it is fascinating how [...]
Running MozCamp+ in Vancouver?
Over the last year, Gandalf, Surman, Mary and bunch of the rest of us have been jamming on ideas for Mozilla events that will engage a broader audience of Internet users. I took an overly abstract kick at the can with FOSSCoach earlier this year (and missed :) A week or so back, Surman worked [...]
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 [...]
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