This is the first in what will be a series of blog posts for the Mozilla-Knight Journalism Challenge. This week we heard from Aza Raskin, former creative lead for Firefox and head of user experience for Mozilla, talking about the power of prototyping for understanding problems and building momentum behind your solution.
Category Archives: Nerdy
World leaders delay climate agreement beyond Copenhagen Summit
Today at the APEC summit, President Obama announced that top world leaders would not form a binding, global agreement on CO2 emissions reduction at the Copenhagen Summit this December. They didn’t give any firm dates, beyond saying that such an agreement is not likely before the second half of 2010, which basically means 2011. ThisContinue reading “World leaders delay climate agreement beyond Copenhagen Summit”
Laughmageddon II: The Copenhagening
Over the last few months I’ve been gradually putting together a new comedy show. This will be my biggest ever, at a huge two-story venue at Trades Hall, Melbourne. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Laughmageddon II: The Copenhagening. Fundamentally, it’s a bunch of top comics performing standup and a version of Al Gore’s “AnContinue reading “Laughmageddon II: The Copenhagening”
Shifting the bar for Fabulous
Seth Godin claims the Internet is “raising the bar for fabulous” globally. I tend to agree. The increased competition to stand out in a global online community should produce “higher highs” of creativity. There’s a conundrum here, though. Is this phenomenon purely due to the network enabling us to find more things that are “cool”,Continue reading “Shifting the bar for Fabulous”
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Experience importing an existing Drupal site to Aegir
(Cross-posted from the Aegir group on Drupal.org. Aegir is a brilliant new framework for managing web sites built in Drupal – upgrading, migrating, enabling, disabling and so, SO much more.) Hi all, I just wanted to share my experience migrating an existing site to Aegir, in the hope that others will find it illuminating andContinue reading “Experience importing an existing Drupal site to Aegir”
The Number One Hit for “Arsehole”
(Cross-posted from Tawtof) Ah Google. Any company that can have three copies of the Internet just kind of lying around is awesome to behold. And Google Image Search is a modern marvel. All the speed and power of Google Search, now with the nerve-rattling immediacy of images. However, despite the best efforts of thousands ofContinue reading “The Number One Hit for “Arsehole””
Mah Finance Sector Is Too Big
[Note: Credit for these ideas must go to many people, particularly Joshua Zeidner and Matthew Slater, both of whom are working on mutual credit, LETS and other alternative currency systems. Check out the Matt’s Complementary Currencies module for Drupal and, shortly, Josh’s JUNO API for connecting these systems together] I’ve kind of tuned out ofContinue reading “Mah Finance Sector Is Too Big”
A Gentle Reminder
As I’m gearing up for Laughmageddon, the climate change comedy event, my research continues to depress me. Sometimes rediscovering facts you already knew can hit you almost as hard as when you first heard them. We are currently in the midst of the 6th great extinction of species. While the “background” (or typical) rate ofContinue reading “A Gentle Reminder”
I work in New Media
One of the funniest things I saw last festival was a song by The Bedroom Philosopher called “I work in New Media”. It completely deflated the hyped-up bubble of “new media” language-mangling and revealed that, ultimately, none of us can describe what we do, let alone in 140 characters or less. Well, someone has finallyContinue reading “I work in New Media”