Back from DC and Toronto I’m feeling recharged and reinvigorated. The Gov 2.0 expo was fantastic, it was great to meet colleagues from around the world in person. The FCM AGM was equally exciting with a great turnout for our session on Government 2.0 and lots of engagement from the attendees. So, now that I’m [...]
Entries tagged as “firefox”
Canadian Governments: How to waste millions online ($30M and counting)
Some More Core-Periphary Maps
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 [...]
Searching The Vancouver Public Library Catalog using Amazon
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 [...]
5 Ways to get to the Next Million Mozillians
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 [...]
Will Firefox’s JetPack let us soar too high?
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 [...]
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