JWZ considered disruptive
I’ve previously thought of Jamie Zawinski not just as an excellent hacker but also as a marketing talent, creator of the original mozilla.org “brand”. (Imagined conversation: “You know, these open...
View ArticleFirefox and innovation
In a previous post I discussed Clayton Christensen‘s disruptive innovation theory (as popularized in The Innovator’s Dilemma and other books) and how it applied to the rise and fall of Netscape. In...
View ArticleThe Firefox value network
In previous posts I discussed the basics of Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory and considered whether Firefox is a disruptive innovation. In this post I try to describe the “value...
View ArticleAsymmetric competition
In previous posts I’ve discussed the theory of disruptive innovation (sometimes referred to as disruptive technology) created by Clayton Christensen and his associates, whether Firefox is a disruptive...
View ArticleMozilla and the future of education, part 1
[This is part 1 of a two-part post; part 2 is here.] Lately there have been a flurry of posts and associated comments discussing possible future activities that the Mozilla Foundation (and by extension...
View ArticleMozilla and the future of education, part 2
[This is part 2 of a two-part post. Part 1 discusses the future of education and the possibility of customized online educational offerings as a disruptive innovation that might eventually grow to...
View ArticleOnline competency-based education
Following up from my previous post on my experience with Coursera, here are a few links of interest (mostly) relating to online education, with a focus on “competency-based education”, i.e., education...
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