Updates
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Maker-Faire Africa!
I’ve been thinking for a while now how great it would be to have a Maker-Faire-type event in South Africa when Jess Hemerly from the Institute for the Study of the Future sent me…
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A kickass Internet super-event for SA
To kick off my research into what’s happening in the Internet space in SA, I went to see one of my favorite people yesterday and came back super-inspired. Mike Stopforth runs a company called…
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Zakes Mda a copy thief?
Interesting article in the Mail & Guardian by Stephen Gray about the similarities between Mda’s Heart of Redness and Jeff Peires’s The Dead Will Arise. Mda had thought that the reference to Peires in…
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Slack(er) apology
Michael Moore has released his film, ‘Slacker Uprising‘ for free download to residents of North America. If you try to download from the website, you get a message saying ‘the lawyers tell us we…
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‘David and GOLIATH’?
Gerhard Marx is suing Ireland Davenport and BMW for copyright infringement in the South African High Court on 9 October. Last night, prominent South African artists raised about $55,000 by auctioning off their works…
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Google’s $10 million for social entrepreneurs
I’m always interested in what Google does for CSI (corporate social investment). In this case, they’re going to be choosing no more than five projects that ‘help as many people as possible, in any…
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Getting crafty on Heritage Day
Kup Kup Brooches., originally uploaded by Kup, Kup Land. I’m spending my Heritage Day doing what I love best: checking out the online craft scene and making things. What a beautiful way to start…
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Mapping open
A couple of us have been working on trying to ‘map’ the ‘move towards openness’. This is my attempt – covering the different levels of openness in communication input – process – output. I’m…
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Phew!
The iSummit is done and dusted. Beautiful event. Starting to look like a festival. Now for some rest. Pic: by Kenji
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