Updates

  • The Joburg

    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…

  • Oh jeepers

    I just did an interview on Radio 702 with John Robbie about Wikipedia. I felt like it was incredibly cringeworthy but I know that I’m my worst critic. Aside from my poor delivery, I…

  • The Digital Edge Podcast

    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),…

  • More translation, please

    The Publius Project (Essays & conversations about constitutional moments on the Net collected by the Berkman Center) has just published an essay from Ethan Zuckerman (originally written for the World Economic Forum Global Agenda…

  • IEC website now available to non-Microsoft users

    Great news from Tectonic about the Independent Electoral Commission’s website now being open to non-IE users. Congrats to everyone who made this happen. The hundreds of emails, blog posts and complaints to the South African…

  • Two-year old beaten to get his mother to confess in Zimbabwe prison

    This morning I woke up to a story on Global Voices about two-year old Nigel Mutemagau who was abducted with his parents three months ago and taken to Zimbabwe’s most notorious prison, Chikurubi Maximum…

  • Open Jozi!

    I need help with a new project that iHeritage has just launched. We’re going to be running a small pilot to put video, photographs, audio and text relating to Johannesburg online in the public…

  • The relationship between openness, competition and innovation

    Stuart Theobald has written a great piece for the Sunday Times yesterday on the leak of confidential sections of the Competition Commission inquiry into the South African banking sector on wikileaks.com (which neither I…

  • Open data please!

    David Sasaki mentioned the lack of open data in last year’s 24.com SA blogger survey in this post, but it was glossed over, I guess, because of his more controversial statements about blogger diversity.…

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