Heather Ford
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I set out for food and adventure after arriving at my hotel earlier today and passing out in the kind of drunken stupor only possible when flying half way around the world. Ramanashree Hotel is about 50m away from the renowned ‘MG Road’ (I don’t know much about it but it conjures up images of…
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It’s that time of the year again. Creative Commons and Wikipedia are working towards their fundraising goals for the coming year and asking users to donate to support the cause. I spent the last five years working on building a global perspective on the commons and will probably spend the next working out what I…
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We’re gearing up for the next GeekRetreat from 15-17 January in Stanford, Western Cape. I can’t wait! It’s going to be awesome 🙂 And, best thing is that we have 11/12 scholarships for people from non-profits/social entrepreneurship ventures related to education and the Internet! More below: If you’re working on or have an idea for…
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The biggest debates from the day was between those who think that this protest was ‘pointless’ and ‘stupid’ vs those who think that it is ‘important’ and ‘worthy’. I’m fascinated about this question – about strategies for bringing about change, and the enormous gaps between how the debate is framed by both kinds of people.
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Last night I went with friends to see Pomplamoose and others play at the Brainwash Cafe in SF. Brainwash is an awesome little place on Folsom Street where you can grab a beer while doing your laundry. We arrived at about 7pm in time to hear the awesome Danielle Ate the Sandwich playing her beautiful…
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_MG_6689, originally uploaded by btmoss. Went to the Mozilla Firefox birthday party in SF last night with DR and Dan Perkel. Loads of fun.
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As part of the new GeekRetreat at Stanford in the Western Cape, the fabulously talented Jackie Scala (Scala Designs) volunteered her time to develop a new shiny home for the GeekRetreat. Guy Taylor (Telamenta) took Jackie’s design and built a Drupal implementation around it (helped by Noto Modungwa and Skip). We’re slowly starting to find…
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My article on the city of Johannesburg’s closed GIS data policies is now available at brainstormmag.co.za. Also this month is a story that I wrote on technology incubators titled ‘Technology incubators: how successful are they really?‘
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I am without a credit card in the US which is very scary since it’s the only way for me to pay for anything here until I move it to my US bank account. Standard Bank has stopped my card (or have they?) because Mastercard said that it has been “compromised”. I’m documenting the comedy…
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I just found an email dated over a month ago from a representative from the agency Atmosphere Communications asking me to contribute to a project that they are working on ‘on behalf of the Economist’ in SA. According to the representative, the project aims to set up a temporary South African “microsite” called www.theunexpected.co.za in…
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