dinner with digital demigods

23 April 2007 3 Comments

OMG I had dinner with Jimmy Wales & Prof Lessig .. and partied with them afterwards! (thank you iCommons team) I am such a geek groupie :-P

The hunter of genius was stopped in her tracks when confronted with deep genius ..and was mostly just in goofy awe.
I’ll post through the week on the funtimes and fundamental techtonic-shifts these internet icons brought our ZA way.

1st @SARocks! on how both slammed the telecomm’s stranglehold in South Africa

2nd :’-D Justin Nurse of Laugh It Off from his intro at the iCommons conference (where Justin certainly laughs something off! LOL)

I LOVED meeting more of the online crew like the Muso’s, the brilliant Buckland, the Apache founder fellow from SF, it was FUN and educational … more edutainment to come in the week >>

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Matthew Buckland said:

Nice to meet you too, Max. :-)

# 23 April 2007 at 6:50 pm

carls said:

Justin’s vid is great! so far I have only heard good things about the weekend and I hope the impact/influence is felt deeply – and by that i mean beyond the blogosphere |(no use preaching to the converted ;) – one can only hope that such a prestigious visit has some influence over government and other key players who keep the information gates tightly locked at the moment – and boy I am bleak i missed the partyjie!

# 24 April 2007 at 12:12 am

Jonathan said:

Your post reminded me of my first visit to San Francisco, and my wide eyed stares from the car as we drove north out of the bay – passing the offices of Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Autodesk and co…

These days I pick away at open source projects from time to time, but mostly on corporate .NET stuff, and read the news stories of the Web2.0 parties and launch events with a certain wistfullness.

# 24 April 2007 at 10:19 pm

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