Christopher Blizzard

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Month: January, 2009

why open video?

[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post.  I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog as well. ]
[ Update: There's a good note on ajaxian, the most important of which is [...]

evangelism work week

This week the Evangelism team are all in Mountain View to connect and plan for 2009.  A crazy bunch of people who care about a lot of different things – add-ons, documentation, community development and the open web.
One of the more important things we’ll be doing this week is working on making it easier for [...]

at FOSDEM 2009

For those of you who missed my brief note on twitter + identi.ca, I’ll be at FOSDEM this year to meet people from Europe.  Although I’ll mostly be at the Mozilla events for FOSDEM I’ll also be there to talk to other people in open source and hear what’s going on in the European community.  [...]

some great writing tips from joss whedon

I liked this enough that I thought it warranted an entire weblog post.  Joss Whedon has a top ten list of writing tips.  I’m always looking for good advice on writing and storytelling and I thought this was great: succinct, focused and very actionable.

streaming video in firefox

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead of stored as a file so you can watch an event in real time.  The [...]

howto: follow firefox 3.1 beta, trunk or final

Asa points out some incorrect information in an article on Wired about following different branches of development on Chrome.  We’ve been doing this at Mozilla for years and years but I thought it might be worth documenting how to do this for people who want to follow our final releases, beta builds, beta nightlies and [...]

on delicious

I post a lot of links to my twitter account.  I can imagine that it gets a little overwhelming for people.  So I’ve started keeping a lot of that on my new delicious account.  Feel free to follow me there or keep following me on whoisi.  I already added it there.

Seven (More) Things You May or May Not Have Wanted to Know About Me

Here’s your link back, O’Grady.
These things always have rules.  Here they are.

Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
Let them know they’ve been tagged.

And here’s my [...]