Updates

  • The iCommons Auction

    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

  • San Francisco 50 Parties Party

    Oh, so this is why I had a sore neck when I woke up on Saturday morning. Picture: Julie Melton on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

  • Jimmy to Jive in Jozi

    One of my favorite board members, Jimmy Wales, will be in Johannesburg in exactly 11 sleeps. Jimmy is in the country to launch the African Wikipedia Academies – a series of Wikipedia sprints, workshops…

  • Calling all South African bloggers

    This Monday, 24 September, is Heritage Day in South Africa. In celebration of Heritage Day, iCommons will be running a parallel real and virtual campaign where we invite South Africans to upload a photograph…

  • The Rising Sun Rock Festival

    Fumi and I are in Sapporo at the moment – working with the awesome team at the City of Sapporo to plan next year’s iSummit. Inoue-san took us to the Rising Sun Rock Festival…

  • Interesting pics

    Have a look at these great pictures taken for the September edition of Eslite Reader at the recent Wikimania conference. They asked me to do something ‘relevant’ with my laptop for the picture. So…

  • Gogo Hleba makes her grand appearance

    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.

  • Players love making stuff

    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.…

  • Simose

    Joi has kindly let me stay at the Lab in Meguro-ku, Tokyo this week while Fumi and I visit local companies to rally support for the iCommons Summit in Sapporo next July. I love…

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