Hi. I’m Chris Messina and this is my blog. I maintain a current bio as well.
I live and work in San Francisco on the Diso Project with Steve Ivy, Will Norris, and Stephen Paul Weber, among others.
I co-founded Citizen Agency with Tara Hunt, a consulting company focused on the effective and appropriate use of social media combined with open source values and practices.
I tend to futz a lot and upload lots of screenshots of interfaces, representing my interest in user interaction and interface design.
I find lots of cool links from across the web and share them.
I once worked on the Spread Firefox project, doing the design of both the site and the two-page New York Times ad, but that was a while ago now. I also helped start Flock (the browser company) but left that gig after nine months.
I been involved in getting the BarCamp, coworking, OAuth and microformats communities off the ground and am on the board of the OpenID Foundation.
I value openness, transparency, honesty, respect and passion.