>When you own a domain you’re a first class citizen of the web. [Adrian Short](http://adrianshort.co.uk/2011/09/25/its-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it/) For the last few months, I’ve been in a blogging slump. Like presumably a lot of people, the sheer number of communication channels has both overwhelmed and satisfying the urge…
A schweet new site. We want MOAR! *Update* And here’s the RSS feed: [http://michellethorne.cc/feed/](http://michellethorne.cc/feed/) Thanks, Christopher!
A fantastic initiative from Wikimedia Germany: an idea competition, “Wissenswert”, calling for projects that further Free Knowledge. Winning submissions can receive up to €5000. I’d love to see projects in the spirit of the “School of Open“, an idea Jane Park (@janedaily) proposed during the…
The Mozilla Festival, which kicks off Nov. 4 – 6 in London, will be a three-ring circus of brainstorming, collaborating and hacking. It brings together 500 journalists, open web developers and media educators to learn and make the web they want. Following a series of posts by…
Prompted by a filmmaker’s uninspiring suggestion to “crowdsource” footage, we had a good round of spontaneous chatter at ODC about: what motivates you to participate? Given how participation is now the metric driving all Mozilla Foundation projects, the topic of motiviation certainly deserves some reflection.…