April Fools Comes Early This Year
April Fools` has just now swept over the Eastern coast of North America and already hoaxes and jokes are spread thick and heavy across the web. Of course, it makes sense that European websites are already posting April Fools' jokes, but I'm not sure if what seems early to me is just an indication that [...]
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Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain
Back in the misty reaches of time — just before the last millennium turned, to be precise — four smart people got together to write about the growing gap between companies and markets. The result was called "The Cluetrain Manifesto", a cogent and plainly-written set of theses about how the Internet changes some of the [...]
For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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Adventures in Experimental Cooking: Vobla Soup
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Vobla, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Early last week, I ventured out to our local German and Eastern European deli. While picking up the regular assortment of cured meats, [...]
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Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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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 [...]
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20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2
… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]
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Lab with Leo Laporte: Demoing Firefox 3 and an (Emulated) Trip Down Memory Lane
Some ways back in the haze that was 2007, I was a guest on a few episodes of the Lab with Leo Laporte show. When I was visiting, I did two brief segments – one on Hiveminder and another on Free Software/Open Source.
I'll be going back next week to record another few segments. This time, [...]
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Life on the Lagging Edge: Greasemonkey Rocks!
I've been doing some interesting work (though, perhaps only to me) on the OSI mailing lists over the last week (which I'll be writing about later). A lot of it has involved far too much manual processing of data from mailing list archives. In particular, I've found that I'm doing the following over and over [...]
Keynoting linuxdan.si: Great Food, Mild Discomfit & a Castle
LinuX dan Slovenia was held in Ljubljana castle (which, as one might guess, overlooks Ljubljana from a hill called Castle Hill.)
Conference organizers: Want to improve the next conference that you host? Hold it in a castle - everything is more interesting in a large stone building that has arrow slits. Also, when if the wireless [...]
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