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JavaScript: It's a Language, Not a Community 7 Apr 2012 | 03:10 am
There's nothing like jsconf for bringing out the meta! Since the conference ended two blog posts have created a lot of buzz, at least within my own twitter bubble. First, Rebecca Murphey's JavaScript...
Webmaker Scrapbooks 2 Feb 2012 | 01:51 pm
My colleagues at the Mozilla Foundation want to "create a web literate planet" and "educate a generation of web makers". Some are working to figure out just what those phrases mean. While others are j...
Mozilla and Web Literacy 26 Jan 2012 | 02:24 pm
Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, has proposed that as part of Mozilla's mission ("to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web") we should work to "create a web literate ...
TeamJS Wrap Up 13 Jan 2012 | 07:01 pm
The Mozilla Firefox Challenge celebrity fundraiser contest has ended, and the JavaScript community's entry, TeamJS did amazingly well: We raised $25,000 for Feeding America, a US charity that collect...
Who Stores all the Lovebombs of the Writable Web? 6 Jan 2012 | 01:56 pm
I've been thinking a lot recently about Mozilla's mission to promote the open web. Part of that mission, a part I'd like to be involved in, has been described as "educating the next generation of web ...
Subscription Music Services: Who Owns your Playlists? 28 Dec 2011 | 08:20 am
I'm a big fan of subscription music: I love the model of being able to listen to whatever you want whenever you want. Its all out there on the web and I don't have to be bothered with actually owning ...
If You Weren't Paying Attention on Friday 20 Dec 2011 | 05:29 am
If you weren't paying attention to the #teamjs hashtag on Twitter on Friday, you missed out on a lot of excitement and a great JavaScript community moment. If you were part of the fun, then you probab...
TeamJS Update and What's Next 20 Dec 2011 | 04:58 am
Friday was a lot of fun! We went from nowhere to first place with $12,000 in donations for Feeding America. But we were so successful that we actually have a chance to win, which means that we can't j...
Read This or I'm Switching to PHP 17 Dec 2011 | 07:51 am
(If you don't live in the US, you can skip it.) The US Census Bureau calculates that in 2008, 15% of US households were "food insecure". A slightly older version of that data is broken down by county...
Geeks vs. Celebs: The Mozilla Firefox Challenge and TeamJS 15 Dec 2011 | 08:37 pm
Mozilla is sponsoring The Mozilla Firefox Challenge, a celebrity fundraiser. Mozilla has donated $5000 to the favorite charity of 12 Hollywood celebrities and will donate $25,000 more to the charity o...
