Heather Ford
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I’m really serious about these ones. 1. Eat more icecream 2. Take a day off every week 3. Be silly I’ll be reviewing my progress in quarterly installments. Thank you, Juhie Batia from Global Voices, for the inspiration.
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1. Most days: Waking up with my beautiful boys. 2. Feb: Sapporo with K and laughing ’til my stomach ached. 3. March: Fun with Tash in Jozi – fun like in the old days fun. 4. April: Driving 15 hours to to spend 24 hours soaking up the Northern Province bush. 5. August: The close…
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I arrived home last night after three weeks in the US of A. I’m happy that I got to finish my application to the Berkeley iSchool. A week before I left, I realised that I had to write the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) and send in my results by the application deadline of 7 January.…
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CC has just celebrated its 6th birthday in San Francisco. I’m sad I couldn’t make it. Jetlag had me asleep at 6pm. But this photo of Lessig at the party makes up for it. Pic: Happy 6th Birthday Creative Commons! by felicity redwell CC BY NC SA
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I’ve had an idea brewing to write a blog next year about facing up to fears. The idea would be to do something that I’m afraid of every day for 100 days and write a daily post about the experience. Being in America brings it gushing to the fore. I realise how much I’m afraid…
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I can’t believe I missed this. A year ago, Zoopy announced Creative Commons integration enabling users to retain copyright and choose their own licenses and sharing conditions. Very cool. (Belated) congrats, Jason and the team 🙂 One suggestion, though: doesn’t look like there’s any explanation of CC in the drop-down menus or the terms. Probably…
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It’s always so great when you can see how the little you can give can make a huge difference. This from the fabulous folks at AfriGadget, a new project called ‘The Grassroots Reporting Project‘ that aims to find, equip and train more AfriGadget reporters in the field throughout Africa. As this is our pilot project,…
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So glad that David Sasaki had stirred the pot a bit with his recent post about the South African blogging community not being nearly diverse enough. I know that it’s frustrating when you feel that you’re only trying to help, but I’ll put this out there: how much are we as a blogging community really…
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A very limited release. Order here.
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And how to rebuild. Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech on Vimeo.
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