Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Tim O’Reilly on the future web wars

I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100 characters to express myself!).  Tim explains well what the new battlegrounds for the future of the web [...]

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Downtown East Side: one week in

We’ve recently moved the Mozilla Messaging offices, for a variety of reasons, to our cool new digs. Partially so I have something to look back in a few months, I thought I’d write down my thoughts about the new space and neighborhood.
The office itself is pretty much what I was hoping it would be. [...]

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Positive Energy for Change, for a Change

Change is hard. I spend a lot of time trying to enable, encourage, foster, stimulate, provoke, change in software.
Part of that is because it feels like it’s that most plastic of human endeavors. That, of course, is only true to the extent that the people involved in the creation of software [...]

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What’s Mozilla’s scope? What should it be?

A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting.
For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]

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