Those who’ve been reading my blog for a long time may remember one of my more popular posts comparing the Firefox 3 Pledge Map (locations of downloads of Firefox 3 back in June 2008) versus Thomas Barnett’s Map (published in The Pentagon’s New Map – his blog here).
A little while back a friend shared with [...]
A few months ago I posted about a number of civic applications I’d love to see. These are computer, iphone, blackberry applications or websites that leverage data and information shared by the government that would help make life in Vancouver a little nicer.
Recently I was interviewed on CBC’s spark about some of these ideas that [...]
Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation has been ruminating on:
“how Mozilla can actively encourage large numbers of people to participate on making the web more open and awesome.”
For a long time I’ve been a supporter of the idea that supporters of an Open Web are part of a social movement and that mobilizing [...]
Recently Mozilla introduced Jetpack, a Firefox add-on that makes it possible to post-process webpages within the web browser. For the non-techies out there, this means that one can now create small software programs that, if installed, can alter a webpages content by changing, adding or removing parts of it before it is displayed on your [...]
For the past several years now I’ve been talking about how community management – broadly defined as enhancing a community\’s collaborative skills, establishing and modeling behaviour/culture and embedding development tools and communications mediums with prompts that “nudge” us towards collaborative behaviour – is imperative to the success of open source communities. (For those interested in [...]
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A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice by Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma
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