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 run Citizen Agency, a consulting company focused on the effective and appropriate use of social media combined with open source values and practices.
I maintain a gallery 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 am no longer involved in that project.
I helped start the BarCamp and coworking communities, and am involved in the development of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, microformats, Portable Contacts and activity streams.
I am on the boards of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations and advise TarPipe, Urban Airship and Perpetually.
I value openness, transparency, honesty, respect and passion.