There has been some great discussion recently within Mozilla about contributor engagement.  People like David Eaves and the Metrics team have been looking at this from a data-driven perspective, and engineers like Paul Bigger have been doing it at the level of our tools and processes.  It's a topic very…

Today Michael Geist tweeted that the Liberals have released their party platform [pdf], and with it a strategy for the Canadian Digital Economy. One of the issues they discuss is access to broadband Internet for rural Canadians. Here are the relevant sections: Rural Broadband Canada’s economy is increasingly knit…

On Friday Mozilla released our latest Audio API/WebGL demo on Mozilla Hacks, called No Comply.  We've already written a post about it, so I won't repeat all that now.  If you haven't seen it yet, please check it out.  We're really proud of it. What I wanted to mention…

I really like you.  It took me some time before I was willing to give you a chance.  I didn't 'get' you and your curt replies for the first few years, even though my friends raved about you.  I joined in order to prove myself right, and that you were…

Today is the launch of Firefox 4.  If you're using an older version of Firefox, you can simply ask it to Check for Updates, and you'll get a shiny new browser.  There's a ton of great stuff in this release, but three things in particular excite me. The first is…

Continuing to write about things for which I have no answer, I want to return briefly to the question of loss online.  The question asked by loss-online, if loss online is possible, is really what is lost; or, put another way, what is being online?  Many readers will recognize this…

A) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/glenn-beck-japan-earthquake-god_n_835573.html B) http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+19%3A11-13&version=NIV…

After days of #prayforjapan in my twitter stream, today I see many tweets calling for action instead of prayer.  @ozten provides a ready example: Hey everybody, if I'm in trouble and you have a choice between prayer and action. Please act! #writing_spirit_checks_you_cant_cash Implicit in this…

One of the questions I'm thinking about, and for which I have no answer, is whether loss, as experienced online, is something different or new.  It is a question that has been recurring in my mind over the past two months.  During this period I have experienced a fairly steady…

Yesterday one of my colleagues expressed how one has to watch the footage of the tsunami to really understand the scale and power of what just happened in Japan.  Up to that time, I had read about it, but not watched any footage.  I decided to do as he suggested,…