Paul Jacobson

Category: People

  • What an awesome photo of Max Kaizen

    M in b+w a photo by cscott2006 on Flickr. This terrific photo of one of my favourite local thinkers caught my eye when I loaded Flickr a few minutes ago. The colour photo is also awesome! Wow, great photo! Updates: I forgot to credit the photo, thanks to Max for reminding me! (Got so carried…

  • Familiar Light – a great kids photography resource

    Jennifer Stein writes about kids photography on her blog, Familiar Light, and includes technical information about how she takes her photos. It’s a great kids photography resource for photographers interested in taking photos of kids (it’s no coincidence that some cameras have a setting for both kids and pets!). As Jennifer explains: I am a…

  • Twitter's amorphous value

    Your tweets are of little significance to anyone other than your “closest family and possibly a tiny handful of employees”, according to Howard Rybko, Syncrony’s CEO (Syncrony is a Sandton-based web development company in case you haven’t heard of the company). According to Rybko, speaking to ITWeb and quoted in an article titled “Tweeting is…

  • Love @lea083's Twitter bio – funny lady!

    Occasionally I’ll see a Twitter profile bio that is smart and funny. Today I found another one: I’m NOT the girl your mother warned you about. Her imagination could never be this good. Random, complicated & serious Bulls Babe. Lethal combo. Dare to care? Here is another gem from this morning: You, too, can follow…

  • A powerful post about our paramedics

    I was planning to just mention this post on the Love.Cybelle blog when I flooded Twitter and took my blog down for a bit. It is a powerful post about what it is like to live with one of the heroes we see each day and, perhaps, too easily take for granted. The post is…

  • A message for despondent LGBT youth: It Gets Better

    I came across a campaign called the It Gets Better Project which is intended to give despondent LGBT youth hope for their future. It seems to have been created after a rash of gay teen suicides recently and its a project I thought I’d mention on this blog: Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their…

  • The Daily Maverick: an example of how to do online journalism right

    I just picked up on an article in Mail & Guardian titled “The site your mom warned you about” about The Daily Maverick (I got the link in today’s First Thing newsletter, of course) and thought I’d throw in a few cents of my own. If you haven’t read The Daily Maverick or receive the…

  • Moving towards a more open and social Web

    Chris Messina presented at Google I/O recently about the open and social Web and I just watched the video of his presentation. He takes the audience through many of the technologies which are adding a very interactive and social layer to the Web itself, potentially obviating the need for dedicated social platforms on the Web…