SA web
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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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The past few months have been an important story in soul-searching for me. After being shoved gently out of the international non-profit I helped build for three very long years in August, I looked beseechingly to my fellow South Africans. ‘Tell me you’re not as cruel as the rest of the world?’ I seemed to
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Ziphezinhle Msimango has written a great article for the Sunday Times (‘Surf and Strange Turf‘) about some of the ‘underground’ sites in SA that cover things like ‘boer fanaticism, black pornography and infidelity’. I often hear people of my parent’s generation talking about how ‘evil’ the Internet is, but sites like this show how the
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From 2oceansvibe.com: Hmmm. Great readers. This from South Africa’s Best Blog. Jane probably said it best:
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Ok, so this is my last post about the matter. There were so many wonderful ideas that came out of this little storm today that I can’t help put them forward so that something constructive comes out of this. Maybe this will mean that next year, we will have more input into the process, or
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Gil Hockman has started a rad project called ‘the joburg‘ – an open calendar for events happening in Johannesburg. It’s a total community-driven, non-commercial project – factors which I think will make it grow exponentially in the future. According to Gil, The way it works is a follows: Google have a very cunning online setup
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Just started doing the ‘blog edge’ blogging update on Cambrient’s ‘the digital edge’ podcast. Please be kind – this is my first one 🙂 I really love the podcast – short (around 20 minutes), snappy and ever-so fresh.
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