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I just wrote this as my letter in the iCommons Lab Report (to subscribe go here): Dear friends, Last week, the iCommons team had a short workshop session to practice the ‘Checklist on openness’ that we’re hoping to work with participants to develop at this year’s iSummit. We practiced by using an equally slippery concept
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There was no cake, no champagne – not even a speech. And it’s only now that I’ve been able to take a breath, that I can say this about my decision to hand over the public leadership of Creative Commons South Africa to Dave Duarte. In 2004, I came back to South Africa after an
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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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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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What a cool, chic chick. I’m in a Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board retreat in Taipei and have met Erin who is so incredibly clever, funny and – most importantly – loves dresses. Erin calls herself a “dictionary evangelist”. She thinks that dictionaries are misunderstood and under-valued – and does a lot of speaking about this
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I anticipated the Carte Blanche story about Wikipedia with great interest, but was highly disappointed when the program was finally shown on Sunday evening. Here was a wonderful opportunity to show how the Wikipedia community has developed a widely acclaimed free global resource – but more importantly, to show the democratic process by which the
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Over the past few months we’ve seen good and bad ways of running competitions for user-generated content on the South African Internet. Exhibit A: Apple South Africa’s ‘GetPodcasting‘ Competition. In March, some eagle-eyed bloggers caught sight of the draconian terms and conditions on the site which didn’t enable people to use other content (for example,
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