Dave Duarte

Kelele, an annual African bloggers’ conference, was announced yesterday at BarCamp Africa at the GooglePlex in San Francisco. This exciting event will be held in a different African city each year and run by an organising committee in that city. Kelele will be held for the first time in August 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. Daudi Were is producing the event, along with an organizing committee of bloggers from ....

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Some of the regular visitors to this blog may have noticed that I have posted progressively less over the last 6 months. Recently my posting has almost come to a standstill. There’s a lot behind this, which I’ve been trying to make sense of. In short, it comes down to a sense of frustration I’m having with the amount of information I seem to have to deal with before ....

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Creative Commons licenses are built on traditional copyright. They may be free, but they are proper legal documents and are enforced using the same proceedures as traditional copyright law. They are simply a way to allow creators to easily communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators. There are some basic clauses that enable this: Attribution. You let others copy, ....

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Congratulations to the Quirk team who have just released the first edition of their eMarketing textbook. Just before it was published I was sent a digital copy to review, and I found it to be thorough, well written and full of good examples and explanations. Furthermore, the book has been published under the Creative Commons. This means that if you download or buy the book, you can copy, remix ....

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An interesting quote from “A-list blogger” Jason Calcanis, who yesterday announced that he is retiring from blogging: Bloggers spend more time digging, tweeting, and SEOing their posts than they do on the posts themselves. In the early days of blogging Peter Rojas, who was my blog professor, told me what was required to win at blogging: “show up every day.” In 2003 and 2004 that was the case. Today? ....

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I thought of this concept when my friend Tim emailed me about nvohk  (pronounced “envoke”), a crowdfunding and branding initiative applied to clothing. In theory it’s a great idea - 30 000 people each put forward $50 for a year’s membership in nvohk inc. For their $50 they get a “founders t-shirt”, get to vote on stuff like logo design and advertising decisions, get discounts on nvohk t-shirts, and ....

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In this short interview, Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at The New York Times, talks about the natural interoperability of Print and Mobile content. He also explains how comprehensive metadata annotation of content can make it “smart,” freeing it to become “device independent media.” This is the promise of the Semantic Web as The Times sees it. The Semantic Web will be critical to search and ....

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