During a recent meeting, discussing the design and architecture of an upcoming product, we drifted into a brainstorming session with a great many big ideas floating around (the best kind of meeting!). The conversation led me to an insight into why Twitter and similar micro-blogging platforms should be used by everyone. First – let’s take [...]
Category: Society · Technology · Web
Lindy and I were invited to dinner recently. We had a great evening – great food and company. But we broke one cardinal rule … we got distracted into discussing politics. Normally this would not be a problem. I expect, especially in the South African context, that discussing politics would be a fairly heated and [...]
Category: Politics and Religion · Society
The news feeds, and the subterranean regions of the blogosphere are abuzz with the “news” that a man has been beheaded on a Greyhound bus, in Canada, with a hunting knife, in front of 37 other people, by somebody who apparently did not know him, at all. Here’s one of the links : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054295/posts I [...]
Category: Society
