Updates

  • While governments debate, people create

    My story about the local chapter of OpenStreetMap for Brainstorm Magazine is now online. It was so much fun to interview this awesome little community of dedicated volunteers – especially since geospatial data is…

  • What’s with all the crazy people?

    Bezerkeley, California. Today marks my first week anniversary since I arrived. In that time, I have been called a dunce by a woman shouting at me in the street, I have been jeered at…

  • Edit Wikipedia for Mandela!

    I’m a geek who loves words, so what better way to contribute on Mandela Day than by contributing to Wikipedia? Wikipedia is written almost entirely by volunteers from around the world. It is one…

  • The future of “the media”: What exactly are we trying to save here?

    Below is the first, unedited draft of an article for the next edition of the Rhodes Journalism Review. Chris Anderson’s new book ‘Free: The Future of a Radical Price’ has stoked the fire of…

  • Twitter made me do it – my thoughts on the .za Geek Retreat

    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…

  • Digital Open seeks a few more international stewards

    From now until and August 15, 2009, Institute for the Future, Sun Microsystems, and Boing Boing invite young people from around the world, age 17 and under, to join us as we explore the…

  • The ‘Digital Open’ is now open

    Friends Jess Hemerly and David Evan Harris have asked Simon Dingle and I (from SA, at least) to be judges in this awesome competition/community initiative from BoingBoing, Sun and the Institute for the Future…

  • Nerd merit badges

    Awesome nerd merit badges!, originally uploaded by ten safe frogs. From BoingBoing – now they can award themselves the badge 🙂

  • The underbelly of the SA web

    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…

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