It’s like Radio, but more Clueful.

Radio New Zealand National is one of oldest and most respected radio channels in New Zealand. Colin Jackson is one of the oldest and most respected[1] internet geeks in New Zealand, and he does their “New Technology” spot just before lunch on Thursdays. It’s a good listen for anyone interested in well, new technology, and it’s often got something for the geeks as well as the more mainstream radio audience. For instance, in his show about Firefox today, I learned that Internet Explorer was originally based on the Mosaic codebase, because Microsoft didn’t have time to write their own after they suddenly realized that the Internet wasn’t going away and Marc Andreessen’s Netscape was a serious strategic threat.

Colin often talks about the state of the Internet, or Open Source stuff. Firefox, therefore, sits squarely in his domain, and he offers a well informed perspective, although he does simplify a bit in places (the story of Mozilla and Firefox takes a long time to tell with any detail!) He mentions the wide array of addons as being a primary Firefox selling point, which is certainly true. He also recommends Interclue as a great Kiwi made addon. We’d have to agree. ;-)

[1] He launched the first .govt server, and recently was president of InternetNZ.