The Case for Google Reader

11 March 2013

UPDATE: Wow, was this post prescient or what! I posted this on 11 March. 2 days later Google officially announces the closure of Google Reader. And, just as I predicted below, there’s a virulent backlash amongst current Google Reader users. Hey Google, you wanna hire me for strategy brainstorming? ORIGINAL POST: The “RSS is dead” […]

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Submit

6 February 2013

The submit button. We come across it every day. Yesterday I was doing a revamp on some of the pages on my business website and I came to the submit button. And stopped. And thought about it… Its a weird word – Submit. Here’s the directory definition (screenshot of my iPhone Dictionary App):   So […]

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Hometown

14 December 2012
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The day the Atlantic Ocean Occupied Wall Street

2 November 2012

  Today’s announcement by NY Mayor Bloomberg that he is now backing Obama for the election is huge. I’ve been following Bloomberg closely for the past year, especially after the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is a huge shift for mayor Bloomburg who has a Republican background and has always been a staunch supporter of […]

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My Rastafarian Insperience

1 November 2012

I was invited to go to an Extreme Sports movie festival this past weekend and joked that I couldn’t because I was going away for a weekend of extreme culture. Man, it didn’t disappoint. Nestled in the hills surrounding Knysna in the midst of the township – Khayalethu – is the largest Rastafarian community in […]

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Back to our roots

2 October 2012

“Doctor, I have an ear ache” 2000 BC      “Here, eat this root” 1000 BC “That root is heathen, here say this prayer” 1805 AD “That prayer is superstition, here drink this potion” 1940 AD “That potion is snake oil, here swallow this pill” 1985 AD “That pill is ineffective, here take this antibiotic” 2012 AD […]

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Voluntary Ignorance

21 September 2012
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Where is this? Machu Picchu?

12 August 2012

…no, its actually much closer to home – an aerial view of the Cable Way Station on the top of Cape Town’s Table Mountain. (original pic from FCM mag)

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Out-the-box thinking

8 July 2012

I’ve gotten into a new medium recently – Graphic Novels – and I’m lovin them.  I’ve had Reader’s Block for quite a while now and found that Graphic Novels are easier to get into. They live at that exciting intersection between Word & Image and can often convey stuff that could never be conveyed in […]

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The Outernet

19 June 2012
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