Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

James Nachtwey, one of the world’s greatest photojournalists and winner of the 2007 TEDPrize, received “one wish to change the world”.

“I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”

Head on over to Nachtwey’s TEDPrize page and watch his moving presentation, it is worth every second of the 23.41 minutes out of your busy day. If you are too busy to even click on that link just watch it right below. Now you have no excuses… (more…)

On Saturday I went to the movies. By myself. Something I haven’t done in a long while. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, some quality Mark time.

The movie I saw was RocknRolla, directed by Guy Ritchie:

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London’s criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice…

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Today is a pretty exciting day for me and the Afrigator team as we can finally announce something that we have been working passionately towards for the past 2 years now – that being an investment partner who can help take Afrigator to the next level with a reach of a much bigger African audience.

MIH Print Africa, a division of Naspers, have secured a majority stake in Afrigator. The exciting news is that Justin and Stii will be relocating to a much trendier Cape Town (or as some prefer to call it Silicon Cape) working from the swanky new Afrigator headquarters with our first official employee, Product Manager Lester Hein, whilst Mike and myself will still be working very closely with the Afrigator team. Expect to see lots happening over the coming months. (more…)

At 19h30pm (South African Time) tonight I will be chatting to Naye Lupondwana on SAFM (South African FM) about what exactly it is that I do and what projects I am involved in. The interview will be part of the “After Dark” programme that showcases personalities you most probably haven’t heard of :)

International readers, if you have any interest in hearing the interview it should be available streaming off the SAFM website.

If you are visiting my site after listening to the interview please let me know via a comment below. Us bloggers love comments :)