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An interesting train of thought over at www.southafricandiaspora.org/, about a possible looming economic crisis.
Personally, my take is that if your growing midlde class spending power in a growing economy is coming from people in the goverment sector, financed by debt, and your education success rates are not growing correspondingly, then you’re in for a […]

I’ve been watching Newsvine for a while now, more out of interest and curiosity to see how it would develop than anything else (I’m not a user as yet), so this was good to receive:

Everything’s Faster –
From loading the front page to writing an article, performance improvements over the last few months have resulted in […]

Open Box Software are actively recruiting for people in their Cape Town office, so if you’re looking for something, or you know of anyone that is looking for someone, then please either get in touch directly, contact me directly, or forward this post on… Don’t be shy - they’re a stable, great company that […]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that made it to the BBQ on Friday night! - had a cool time and was great to meet so many new people! (If I met you for the first time, please send me your details so I can add you to the mailing list!)
The photo’s are on […]

If you don’t know already, there is a Web 2.0 BBQ happening in South West London tonight, open to all (not axe murderers please).
The weather is awesome, the can-can girls have confirmed their appointment, the fridge is cold, and the BBQ is ready to go…
Roll on the evening!
On a related note, I got an email […]

Dave has launched Poraqui.com… one less vertical to occupy, or alternately, compete with…

user generated content, niched verticals

Andy Budd has sent a heads up of the next d.construct conference:

Further to my hints a couple of weeks ago, I’m pleased to announce the official launch of d.Construct 2006.
If you’ve not heard of d.Construct, it’s a low-cost grassroots web development conference we run in Brighton. The conference is all about web applications and web […]

Just posted another piece over at Lemon Foundation on how businesses should be going about finding their digital suppliers… Here’s the intro:

It’s becoming apparent that the digital arena is starting to pick up, certainly much more than it has year by year over the last 4 to 5 years. Businesses are starting to […]

Mediatemple (mt) launches an ad network geared towards the design community…
Vantageous is an advertising network & site representation company focused on placing campaigns with influential creative industry web publications.
Which is interesting in 2 ways:
1. The design portal community seems to have slowed down a lot in the last year or two - why is that? […]

Just posted something on start-up questions to consider over at e-Consultancy, which looks at the things you should be thinking about when you’re doing a web 2.0 startup, or startup of any sort for that matter…
Here’s the intro for ya:
There’s a pretty great post on Particletree about the kind of questions VCs ask […]

I’ve been writing a bit on user generated content (waiting for editorial consent!) lately for e-consultancy and there seems to be a real thread moving around the blogosphere where the emphasis seems to be on real writing for real people, not writing for the sake of advertising clicks or for what you think your audience […]

Just a friendly reminder for this Friday:
The next BBQ is this Friday on the 23rd June, same time and place as the last one:
http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2006/05/23/geekbbq-tomfoolery-in-london/
Upcoming.org -> http://upcoming.org/event/80247/
Address is: (now withheld to protect privacy
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sw19&om=1 (also to protect privacy)
Open invite - everyone welcome. Please forward to anyone you know interested in Web 2.0, geekery, blogging, being […]

Added some photos to Flickr this morning, all from 2001 - some good wildlife shots, a solar eclipse taken from Johannesburg, some from the Otter Trail, a few from Graskop (nice old skool look), and from Pilgrims Rest (old mining town in SA).

South Africa, wildlife, solar eclipse, otter trail, PIlgrims Rest, photography