This morning at the opening session of the Firefox Plus Summit I showed this image, which has been in the works for a while. It’s my current approach to finding a good metaphor to explain the complex nature of Mozilla. There’s a fair amount of explanation needed for this image to make sense, and I’ll [...]
I’ve received a couple of emails from people saying it’s hard to comment on the data issue without some idea of where I’m heading or what I’m thinking. So here goes. I’ll come back to some of the topics I’ve written about already. And I’ll continue with the other posts as well; I think we [...]
In my last couple of posts I’ve described why I believe Mozilla must pay attention to data in order to help individual people deal with data about them.
There’s a lot of data about people being created. I’ve listed below some of the basic kinds of this data that I think we need to be able [...]
I’ve said in a previous post that I believe Mozilla needs to pay attention to the amounts and types of data that increasingly define the Internet experience. I’ve even created an outline of different topics relating to data that I think should be part of the discussion. Why is this?
Principles 3, 4 and 5 of [...]
Here’s my starting framework for the data discussions.
Outline the different reasons data is important/ different ways in which understanding data is important to building the type of Internet we want to live with.
Develop some shared, reasonably specific terms about the kinds of data that related to people.
Develop some shared, reasonably specific terms about other kinds [...]
Our online lives are generating increasing data about us as individuals and about how groups of people are using the Internet. At the dawn of the World Wide Web 15 years ago people “surfed” to websites and viewed information. Today Internet life is more participatory and people create more information. In addition, a range of [...]
I’m thrilled to report that we’ve identified the person we believe should lead the Mozilla Foundation into a new stage of activity. That person is Mark Surman, the role is Mozilla Foundation Executive Director. “We” in this case is the Executive Director Search Committee, the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors, Mozilla Foundation staff, plus a [...]
One of the great things about Mozilla is that periodically I’ll be thinking about how to get something done and then I’ll look up and find someone else has already done it, and often gone further with the idea than I would have. Dave Eaves’ post today about “The challenge of Mozilla’s magnetism” is an [...]
In a post last week I talked about concentric circles of community, noting that I actually think of Mozilla as concentric spheres of community. That’s because each community (practice, action, interest, user) is made up of many different sub-groups.
For example, the Community of Practice is that set of people who are sharing resources and using [...]
A while back Dave Eaves suggested that the open web is a social value. This may be true. I’d like to explore a different approach to the Open Web/ Open Internet. Not opposite, because the two approaches might fit together, but distinctly different.
One can think of the Open Internet as something very specific and very [...]