Wangari Maathai died today. I heard her speak in 2005 at the Clinton Global Initiative. She was a lady who planted trees. Like Jonny Appleseed. Or the man who planted trees. She was certainly a hummingbird. A special woman who’s best was pretty darn impressive. Thank you Wangari. Thank you. The world thanks you. ps [...]

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I’ve started to write again. Well I’m sprouting really. It’s chick lit. A bit of a surprise for me too. But it seems working so why not. And I’ve decided to have a full first draft by end of this year. My Aunty added that it would be published within the new year. Amen. image [...]

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

I happened across Iranian artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat via the Financial Times this week. There was an image from her Women of Allah series – and I had to find out more! Below you’ll find some of her achingly beautiful disturbing and challenging images. She also her first feature film out “Women without Men” – whose [...]

I caught this on the anthropologist and it has to be one of the nicest uses of multi-media storytelling I’ve seen: photography, writing, print/typography & film…by photographer David Eustace about his road trip with 16 year old daughter Rachel. At 2:07am on the 9th of October 1992 my life changed forever. My daughter Rachael was [...]

Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) by Stephane Masse-Bidal via new blog crush it followed me home Check out Stephane’s whole set here!

It’s valentine’s day tomorrow, but I’m more excited that it’s also Chinese New Year, and for me this year, the start of my 2010 (seeing as Jan 1st snuck up a weeeee bit fast). So as I / we enter into a new year of sorts, I thought I’d share a story that never ceases [...]