# HG changeset patch
# User Atul Varma <varmaa@toolness.com>
# Date 1265321945 28800
# Node ID fa39ca3f856e87280dd1a21b04c08f4427a4b27f
# Parent  c590046d502c7ab4fcf3c15b6f15350384540ff2
Added script of narration.

diff -r c590046d502c -r fa39ca3f856e css/ff-herdict-preso.css
--- a/css/ff-herdict-preso.css	Thu Feb 04 13:51:16 2010 -0800
+++ b/css/ff-herdict-preso.css	Thu Feb 04 14:19:05 2010 -0800
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
     font-size: 24pt;
 }
 
+#script {
+    display: none;
+}
+
 #slides {
     height: 400px;
     width: 660px;
diff -r c590046d502c -r fa39ca3f856e ff-herdict-preso.html
--- a/ff-herdict-preso.html	Thu Feb 04 13:51:16 2010 -0800
+++ b/ff-herdict-preso.html	Thu Feb 04 14:19:05 2010 -0800
@@ -84,6 +84,61 @@
   <p id="license">
   <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/us/80x15.png" /></a></p>
 </div>
+<!-- This is the script for the pitch; eventually we should turn this text -->
+<!-- into live subtitles. -->
+<div id="script">
+Firefox's network error pages are familiar to everyone.
+
+But they're not very useful. Most people, if they're like me, see this
+wall of text and interpret it to mean "the internet broke and we have
+no idea why."
+
+The fundamental question users want answered when they see this is: is
+there something *I* can do to fix this?
+
+Now, the architecture of the internet makes it fairly hard to pinpoint
+why a network is down.
+
+As James Fallows explains in his article "The Connection Has Been
+Reset" from the Atlantic's March 2008 issue, some national governments
+even exploit this to prevent their people from seeing things that the
+government doesn't want them to see.
+
+All this means that a "server not found" error page could have been
+raised because the user's network connection got unplugged; or it
+could be because their local router is down; or it could be because
+their ISP is having problems; or it could be because their corporation
+is blocking access to the site; or it could be because their
+government has outlawed access to that particular site; or it could be
+because the site is actually down.
+
+Firefox should do its best to answer that fundamental question: is
+there something *I* can do to fix this and get where I want to go?
+
+Enter Herdict.
+
+Herdict is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
+Harvard University, a brainchild of Professor Jonathan Zittrain, that
+attempts to use crowdsourcing to generate a global picture of internet
+connectivity.
+
+Put simply, it uses the power of the internet itself to ask the
+question: can other people on the internet see this site? If so, who?
+
+Firefox can use the answers to these questions to help answer the
+user's fundamental question: is there something *I* can do to fix
+this?
+
+This Labs Experiment is an attempt at picturing what
+Firefox-Herdict-integration might look like. It's intended to be as
+unintrusive as possible to the user experience, so it only aims to
+improve upon the already notoriously unhelpful network error pages.
+
+Rather than being a final solution, this Labs Experiment is intended
+to build mindshare and catalyze discussion about what a better network
+error page might look like, following Mozilla's philosophy of creating
+things that do stuff to make the internet better.
+</div>
 </body>
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