Heather Ford
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Last weekend, at Lou and Mike’s wedding at Gwahumbe in KZN, I reconnected with old friends, the Takis brothers from Swaziland who I last saw about eight years ago on one of my very best holidays to Kariba and Sodwana. My cousin, Tash and I were planning on going to Mbabane but the Takis’s were…
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7pm, Elton Place: Anna B, me, Lara and Steph 10pm: Melrose Arch, The Venue (which venue? the venue) midnight: 4am: The Bohemian 10am the next day: I’ve never felt so special. Thank you to all my dear friends for making it a night to remember! Especially to my brother Quinton, my new friend, AnnaB and…
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Where else can you get the most beautiful, geeky stuff to hang on your office wall but at the iCommons Auction. We’re raising money. Help us 🙂 Picture: Free Culture Doll by Hannah Upritchard
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Oh, so this is why I had a sore neck when I woke up on Saturday morning. Picture: Julie Melton on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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One of my favorite board members, Jimmy Wales, will be in Johannesburg in exactly 11 sleeps. Jimmy is in the country to launch the African Wikipedia Academies – a series of Wikipedia sprints, workshops and boot camps to encourage the local celebration of Wikipedia as an amazing tool for education, culture and enterprise in Africa.…
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This Monday, 24 September, is Heritage Day in South Africa. In celebration of Heritage Day, iCommons will be running a parallel real and virtual campaign where we invite South Africans to upload a photograph or two to Wikimedia Commons under a free licence so that others can build on and share our memories. So, if…
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Fumi and I are in Sapporo at the moment – working with the awesome team at the City of Sapporo to plan next year’s iSummit. Inoue-san took us to the Rising Sun Rock Festival yesterday. It was a truly awesome experience. 37,000 people, 6 stages, loads of artwork (by kids, professionals and amateurs), tree stump…
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Have a look at these great pictures taken for the September edition of Eslite Reader at the recent Wikimania conference. They asked me to do something ‘relevant’ with my laptop for the picture. So I tried to eat my laptop. I guess I was trying to talk about the fact that information can feed people…
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I nearly wet myself laughing at the amazing Gogo Hleba’s first column in the iCommons newsletter that has just come out. Brilliant. Download the newsletter and the beautiful cover (thanks, Loftwork!) from icommons.org.
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This is another great video from TED – and not just because it’s about toys. Will Wright makes an interesting comment about his experience in designing the Sims near the beginning of the movie. I think this perfectly encapsulates the world that we’re navigating and trying to make sense of in the free culture space:…
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