I have had a slight break from teaching and the festival and have managed to get a few things done:

• Completed the alpha version of the Digital NewsRoom (DNR) workflow management system. testing begins soon at Grocott’s Mail.
• Did an interview for Enjin magazine about the status of web user interface design. I said I like Georgia and Flickr
• Wrote a feature for RJR discussing net neutrality, privacy and DRM
• Wrote a article for The Convergence Newsletter, which is a joint publication of the University of South Carolina and Ifra Newsplex about HSDPA and mobbile video in SA
• Wrote the data migration plan for The Namibian (approx 160 000 articles in badly formatted HTML), who will be the first major metropolitan newspaper to run on DNR
• Designed the corporate ID for a new project supported by Telkom
• I spoke at the SANEF AGM on a debating panel about media convergence
• Finished a lot of little bits a pieces that have been nagging me for months

But, as with every hungry todo list, new things got added:

• Colin and I got the green light for the first Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging to be held just after Highway Africa this year, so web sites need to be built etc.
• I agreed, maybe foolishly, to write a chapter for a book we’re publishing on ICT and knowledge management in 7 African newsrooms
• I am doing an interview with South African Computer Buyer Magazine about citizen journalism some time this week
• I am the guest speaker at the Reporter.co.za cocktail party on 1 August. This is going to be a blast, and the next morning I speak to journos at the Sunday Times about platform convergence, liver allowing
• I am delivering a paper at a Symposium on the Africa Digital Public Sphere held here in September, just before Highway Africa
• Matthew Buckland and I are doing a double-header combat presentation at Captivate (the student media conference) where we will probably debate something like blogging and citizen journalism
• In November I give a talk (don’t know what on) at the anniversary of the school of journalism in Utrecht, and probably lay a smack-down on Amsterdam while I’m at it.

Phew, and there is more but its boring stuff. Colin has posted something very cool called So You’d Like to Buy a PSP?.