At the Cisco Partner Summit in Boston in 2009 I was in attendance when the networking company revealed research it has been conducting into network traffic. Cisco predicted that by 2013 90% of all consumer IP traffic on global networks will be video. Cisco’s research suggested that a revolution is underway in video communications and IPTV. And that South Africa is missing out on it – because we simply do not have the bandwidth.

When Apple announced the iPad in January I watched live coverage of the event on my favourite online channel – TWiT. Presenter Leo Laporte and a group of US-based journalists did a better job of covering the occasion via online streaming video than any of the conventional news channels. It was raw, on-demand journalism and a clear indication of things to come. (more…)

Designer Stefan Sagmeister recently presented this talk at TED. In it he stresses the importance of productive time off. I like to think that I apply this thinking on a weekly basis, taking short productive and indulgent breaks at regular intervals as opposed to longer sabbaticals as such. Thanks to @craigrodney for sharing this with me =)