I’m sitting in the audience of a Mozilla Japan seminar here in Tokyo at the moment — listening to Mike Schroepfer talk about what we’re up to. Just finished my presentation — was really interesting to do a talk with a simultaneous translator. Given that Americans pretty much can”t understand what I’m talking about half the time (part mumbling, part speed-talking, part incoherence), it was a surprisingly high bandwidth conversation with the audience of 100+ Tokyo-ers.
Like my last visit here, we’ve got contributors who have come from different islands here in Japan — and again, very humbling to be part of something that people love so much.
Here’s a picture of Mike, taken about 3 minutes ago:
And Takita-san, fearless leader of Mozilla Japan:
Note to self: need to buy a better camera with image stabilization — this Sony T7 takes junky pictures in low light.



Some followup thoughts on my SOPA post
Feb 3, 23:21 › Travis: Man, SOPA and PIPA just drive me crazy. I am shocked Jan 11, 17:22 › John Stack: Have you considered #OPEN? Personally, it is as far Jan 11, 16:51 › Brad Feld: Fantastic John. I couldn't have said it better myself Jan 10, 15:34 › Robert Kaiser: "What I think we really need to figure out is how