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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...
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Firefox 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...
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The 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...
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Asymmetric 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...
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Mozilla 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...
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Mozilla 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...
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Online 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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