Heather Ford
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I’m doing some research on defamation cases against bloggers in light of the blogger Donn Edwards being sued by Quality Vacation Club for complaining about the lack of transparency in the company’s direct marketing efforts, and have found a great resource in the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa‘s ‘opt out’ register. According to the…
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goes to the incredible people like my beautiful mom who volunteer for Hospice to care for the people who we’ve abandoned. Health-e news has a great article on the Dream Centre Hospice in Pinetown.
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Very excited to have gotten iHeritage up today. Really looking forward to the seminars and photo walks that we’ll be doing in the new year. If anyone is interested in helping out, please email me or join the Jozi mailing list.
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If you don’t get excited about the iSummit after watching this, then I want to know. And if you’re excited enough to want an iSummit in South Africa next year, join the African Commons Project mailing list here.
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I love the first issue of Pangram called ‘Babylon‘ and I love the reader/publisher tool they’re using called ‘Issuu‘ (great page-turning action and pretty design) and I love this great pic of Jason called ‘what-a-yummy-icky-eye-you-have-there-in-your-hands’ (actually that isn’t the official title). I like what Jason says below about getting stuff done: There are many other…
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I’m doing some research on what museums and cultural heritage institutions are doing to put their collections online and make them more accessible. A wonderful resource is Flickr Commons (wish we’d had it for our Heritage Day project!) with the goals of 1) increas(ing) access to publicly-held photography collections, and 2) providing a way for…
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‘We are helping make the Internet a place… where you and your neighbors build the world you want. that generates not only economic value, but also civic and social value. that is optimized for multiple languages and locales. that is trustworthy and has minimal risk for users.’ (Mozilla Foundation site) Two weeks ago, Mark Surman…
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Last Christmas, I read Barack Obama’s memoirs: Dreams of my father – an autobiographical narrative about his life growing up in the U.S., trying to make sense of his identity as the child of a black Kenyan father and white mother from Wichita, Kansas. Reading about his experiences as a community organiser in Chicago helped…
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I wanted to look up the article that was written in Brainstorm this morning. I have the mag somewhere but wanted to read the online version. This is what ITWeb expects online readers to pay to read articles online. I still don’t understand the logic and can’t believe there are still magazines who block stories…
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Woices is a beautiful little site ‘that allows people to create, share and consume echoes, audio records which are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object. Woices ultimate goal is to extend reality by creating a new layer of audio information, what we call the echoesphere, that will make the world…
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