Summary: Mozilla is releasing a Evangelism Representative program and I’ll be coaching Mozillians to become public speakers. Five years ago a few well-meaning web folk in the UK were ready to start a program called “make me a speaker”. I blogged about it and there was a Wiki at http://www.makemeaspeaker.com/ which is now defunct (Wayback [...]

A wise man said that the only constant is change. Personally I found I wasted a lot of time lately. Reasoning with myself, I came to a few conclusions. I need to stop concentrating on the open web. Learning this was tough, but it makes sense. Free software and open systems are stifling. Open means [...]

Things that made me happy this morning: Man dressed as batman caught speeding by police – turns out he is frequently going to the kids’ hospital to inspire the cancer patients to fight. This is a real tear jerkerNine Inch Nails performing at Dance Party USA – someone found an old VHS recording and Trent [...]

This is a small preview of a new thing we are working on in Mozilla. The Evangelism Reps program involves Mozillians getting help, mentoring and training to become public speakers, start blogging and running local events. All of this will be open and available on the Wiki. So here is a sneak peek. How to [...]

Lately there has been quite some debate about “free services” and what they mean to their users. A lot of it started with the excellent article “Don’t be a free user” by Maciej Ceglowski which described a few unpleasant truths: When you use a free service, you are the product that gets soldThis means in [...]