This Friday night, I start a vacation and will be mostly offline till August 14th. I'm going to be in the north of England; if you live nearish Manchester and want to meet up around …

I've now seen the film and the stage versions of Cabaret. Some thoughts: Our leads are basically Kermit and Miss Piggy. In fact, I am now reinterpreting the Meet Cute from The Great Muppet Caper …

Today I taught someone how to use the command line, showed him whoami and ls and nslookup, showed him Wolfram Alpha, and explained DNS, IPv6, hexadecimal, and WikiProjects. That was nice.

I'm home from Wikimania, where one of my presentations got someone "legitimately excited!" And what else can you ask? Home for two weeks before I take a nice long summer vacation. A few random thoughts: …

Video interview with me about Wikimedia's openness on multiple levels.

This weekend I:took a capoeira class for the first time went to the top of the Empire State Building for the first time saw open culture and open source friends, old and new caused about …

A few links for the weekend. This video is probably only of interest to Arrested Development fans and people who want to hear an Australian imitating a US accent. By the same creator: "...It’s much …

I'm getting very positive reviews for my opening keynote from Open Source Bridge. Video (starts around 6:00), speaker's notes (text that needs updating to match the audio).

You know you're traveling too much when you completely stop updating the "where I'm going to be" feeds (example). Regardless: I'll be in San Francisco starting late today, and then in Portland on Monday the …

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a leader for volunteer software testing. I have ideas on what this person should do and how to do it* -- indeed, this position reports to me -- but more than …