Over Christmas I’d spoken to Wladimir Palant of the Adblock Plus project, Adblock (you guessed it…) strips ads from within Firefox.   Some of his users had trouble understanding how the plug-in worked and how to get it installed.  We offered to do some open-source advocacy where we’d explain how to get started and find help for Adblock Plus in just over a minute.

Richard and I put time into developing a brief, scripting, storyboarding, animating and screencasting this short tutorial and we’re really rather happy with the result.  A higher quality version is listed on our usual Examples page, we decided to go with YouTube since it makes it easy for a viewer to embed it in their blog for advocacy.

Wladimir has a nice entry about our work, I’ve also covered it as has Richard.  This screencast is our 3rd for open-source advocacy after Django in Under a Minute and IE8 vs Firefox 3.  The open-source advocacy effort builds upon the fact that I’m a co-founder of ShowMeDo and have created over 130 tutorial screencasts about open-source.

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