Ken Robinson at TED
For those of you who spend any time with me in the “real world”, you’ll know that my Big Dream is to open a “school for the future” in South Africa.
So when I came across this video of Ken Robinson at the last TED conference, I felt as if he was speaking directly to [...]
A local gem with global potential
You’ve heard of Mark Shuttleworth, you’ve heard of incuBeta. Now hear this: Gareth Ochse and Craig Corte have finally released their new baby BuzzFuse* to the market.
Created in South Africa, BuzzFuse* is a very nifty, very clever and very needed application that
allows content creators (think music, cartoons, blogs, photographs) to spread their wares
allows [...]
Forget spam, it’s bacn time!
Have you noticed how your email box is full of messages that aren’t spam exactly, but also are not a one-to-one meaningful communication? Notifications from facebook are a good example, as are comment links for blogs I have commented on myself. As Andy Quale from Techburgh puts it: “Notifications you want. But not right [...]
What do you do?
The Dalai Lama answers “Nothing”. I love it.
Personally, I dread this question.
First of all, because there is no all-encompassing answer. What I do almost depends on what day of the week it is.
Second, the complexity of the answer also depends on who is asking it. If you are my hairdresser, the chances are you don’t [...]
Web 2.0 scams: 419?
I received this in my email box recently. Stinks of some sort of scam, but I cannot prove it. Some warning signs are:
Even if I wanted to help out, South Africa isn’t on the PayPal list either
The email from which this was sent is not the email to which they want you to reply
And [...]
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