Last week I was in Barcelona, Spain for the Mozilla Foundation's Drumbeat Festival. The festival's theme was Learning, Freedom, and the Web, and attendees came to participate in sessions and workshops on a variety of education, open source, and open web topics. Together with Mozilla's Brett Gaylor, I ran the…
On Friday I gave a talk on the new Audio API in Firefox 4 at FSOSS. I was showing my youngest daughter some of the demos I presented today, and she said, "Dad, that song is so beautiful, draw some more of it." I really like this song…
It's FSOSS eve, which always puts me in a storytelling mood. Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk on Web Audio, and demonstrating a lot of the things that are possible with our new audio API in Firefox 4. I've been getting demos ready today, and I was reflecting tonight on…
The other day some of my colleagues were tweeting about gource, the amazing OpenGL SCM visualization tool. It allows you to visualize git, hg, bazaar (and possible CVS/SVN) logs as animated graphs. Building it on Mac was a bit of a pain, given the amount of crap I had…
Mark just pointed me at a post Tonya wrote this morning on the occasion of Rob Ford being elected mayor in Toronto. You should read the whole post. A couple of things resonated with me. So, Rob Ford is Mayor. I’ve been sitting on Facebook (my social media of…
I've had occasion recently to watch a number of professionals at work. I know them to be professionals because they made a point of indicating it, and in some cases, clarifying it when the fact might be in dispute. In each case these people had become engaged in some larger…
Recently I had a free evening and decided to build a little experiment to recast Twitter as a book, written by The Web, without any reference to individual people. I was partly inspired by Jay Hilgert's Anatomy of a Really Old Book, and started working up from there. Twitter is…
If you're a parent of children between the ages of 4 and 8, you are perhaps familiar with the stuffed animals called Webkinz. These are small toys--dogs, cats, sheep, birds, etc--and every purchase also brings with it an access code for a 1 year membership to the online Webkinz World.…
Last week Mozilla Labs announced its Game On competition, a contest "all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser." The open web platform has got a lot to offer game developers these days. I'm hoping that some people will enter processing.js…