Paul Jacobson

Category: Mindsets

  • DoC’s lip service to urgency

    It seems our communications minister has a very strange concept of urgency. Hitting the wire* has a post that reveals that the minister is really just paying lip service to her stated goal of reducing telecommunications costs in South Africa and unbundling the local loop (the connection from the network to each home/business, also referred…

  • Money for jam at JB’s in Hyde Park

    I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. I have had a couple breakfasts at JB’s in Hyde Park and they were pretty good. My current favourite is the Mediterranean breakfast (I think that is the name – it had eggs, mushrooms, haloumi cheese, grilled tomato and toast) and it is very tasty.…

  • The thing with censorship and freedom of expression …

    This was going to be a comment in response to Twylite’s comment on my post about Patricia De Lille’s call for censorship of bloggers but it started to develop into a full post instead. When the government starts telling us what we can and can’t say, we have censorship. I do agree with one aspect…

  • Its the stuff that gets the juices flowing …

    I had lunch with Heather today and we chatted about projects we are collaborating on, might collaborate on and we are working on on our own or in our own organisations and it struck me how much I enjoy being a digital socialist. I love the thought of working on a project that will make…

  • Fatigue

    Scoble has a post which mirrors my own feelings the last week or two: Louis Gray asks if leading bloggers are getting “blog fatigue?” It’s worse than that. I’m just really tired — I’ve spread myself too thin in too many different directions. A new kid on the way is staring me in the face,…

  • I could kick myself …

    … (again) that I wasn’t at this event: (Source: Lessig blog – thanks to Colette for the link) Technorati Tags:free digital culture, creativity is a right, lawrence lessig, jimmy wales, creative commons, icommons, whispa, could kick myself

  • David Bullard responds …

    … and the message is pretty clear really. We all did exactly what Bullard was aiming for. We, the bloggers, focussed so heavily on Bullard’s clearly inflammatory column so much that we drove a lot of traffic to it. All we did was feed the Bullard marketing machine. This has been a pretty effective case…

  • I’ll just write some drivel then, Bullard?

    David Bullard, Sunday Times columnist, has written a really unfortunate article titled “Name and shame offensive bloggers” which was published today. Vincent has posted a blow by blow review of Bullard’s comments and his responses to them so I won’t go through the same process. Basically this whole blogging thing is, according to Bullard, little…