Hblog
A blog by hfordsa
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Heather Ford's blog
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WikiWars and the politics of despair
Dror Kamir talks about the war of the wiki at WikiWars in Bangalore Last week, I was in Bangalore for ‘WikiWars: Critical Point of View‘, a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands). As our invitation letter outlined, ‘WikiWars
The power and the peril of self-congratulation
Justin Spratt, Elan Lohmann and Daniel Neville shoot the breeze in true GeekRetreat fashion last Saturday It’s exactly a week since GeekRetreat Stanford Valley and I’m sitting in my freezing cold Berkeley apartment collecting my thoughts and the countless pages of notes that I wrote on the plane
My first Bangalore adventure
I set out for food and adventure after arriving at my hotel earlier today and passing out in the kind of drunken stupor only possible when flying half way around the world. Ramanashree Hotel is about 50m away from the renowned ‘MG Road’ (I don’t know much about
Why I won’t support Creative Commons or Wikipedia this year
It’s that time of the year again. Creative Commons and Wikipedia are working towards their fundraising goals for the coming year and asking users to donate to support the cause. I spent the last five years working on building a global perspective on the commons and will probably spend
GeekRetreat scholarships available!
We’re gearing up for the next GeekRetreat from 15-17 January in Stanford, Western Cape. I can’t wait! It’s going to be awesome And, best thing is that we have 11/12 scholarships for people from non-profits/social entrepreneurship ventures related to education and the Internet! More below: If you’re
The “value” of “protest”
The biggest debates from the day was between those who think that this protest was ‘pointless’ and ’stupid’ vs those who think that it is ‘important’ and ‘worthy’. I’m fascinated about this question – about strategies for bringing about change, and the enormous gaps
Word on the (digital) street
Last night I went with friends to see Pomplamoose and others play at the Brainwash Cafe in SF. Brainwash is an awesome little place on Folsom Street where you can grab a beer while doing your laundry. We arrived at about 7pm in time to hear the awesome
Firefox 5th Birthday Party
_MG_6689, originally uploaded by btmoss. Went to the Mozilla Firefox birthday party in SF last night with DR and Dan Perkel. Loads of fun. Heather
GeekRetreat.co.za is live!
As part of the new GeekRetreat at Stanford in the Western Cape, the fabulously talented Jackie Scala (Scala Designs) volunteered her time to develop a new shiny home for the GeekRetreat. Guy Taylor (Telementa) took Jackie’s design and built a Drupal implementation around it (helped by Noto Modungwa and
‘Mapping the world class African city’
My article on the city of Johannesburg’s closed GIS data policies is now available at brainstormmag.co.za. Also this month is a story that I wrote on technology incubators titled ‘Technology incubators: how successful are they really?‘ Heather
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