Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

A couple days late, but just a quick note to point you in the direction of a recent interview I did with Nic Haralambous for his Mail & Guardian Techleader blog. In it I discuss my design work, business ventures and what it is that I really do.

If you are bored at work, or have no work to do, grab a coffee and have a read over here.

At 7.30am this morning I embarrassingly admit I was one of those sad wotsits sitting outside an O2 store eagerly waiting for the doors to open at 8.02am so I could get my hands on some Apple goodness – the iPhone 3G.

Apparently the first bloke in the queue got there at 4.30am!

I tried hiding behind the big geeky Afrikaans dutchman (who clearly didn’t get out much), in front of me when the schoolkids walked past us on their way to school, hurling abuse at the queue. I then overheard the big geeky dutchman tell the guy next to him how he camped the night outside a computer store in Dubai to get his hands on Windows 95 back in the day.

I really was start to feeling like quite a geek. (more…)

Well they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but when someone quite blatantly steals not only your design, but your idea it can be a little more insulting.

Regator, a new blog aggregator, has received quite some media attention today with articles in Read Write Web, Techcrunch and on Mashable.

None of the articles posted seem to mention its uncanny resemblance to our Afrigator.com. Perhaps because our service was developed and is focussed on deepest, darkest Africa they thought they could get away with it, without anyone noticing?

On Saturday we braved the masses of face-painted, flag waving, brandy and coke drinking South Africans living in London and congregated at Hyde Park for Nelson’s 90th Birthday Bash.

The party was not only packed with appropriately 46 664 screaming Mandela fans, but a star-studded cast of performers and supporters. Live music was provided by the Soweto Gospel Choir, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Razorlight, Queen & Paul Rodgers, Annie Lennox, Sugababes, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mabuse, Josh Groban, Jamelia, Eddy Grant, Loyiso, Andrea & Sharon Corr, Simple Minds, to name but a few!

Below are a few of my highlights of the evening, together with some of the clips of the official TV broadcast – which I hope will stay up on Youtube. (more…)