Blogroll updates
Adding a couple of newbies to the Blogroll tonight - and laying claim to both of them as blogoffspring, or blogsiblings, or something.
There's an eerie whistling noise and a few tumbleweeds blowing through this blog at the moment, but I have high expectations of it starting up again in earnest some time soon. "Adding Value" is the malformed lovechild of Jeff Roman, Robert Manne, and Chris Wood - three smart young chap I had an absolute blast working with for a while at the last gig. Doesn't look like much yet, but trust me - if they put their minds to it this could be a thing of beauty.
The second new addition is one I'm especially proud of.
Just about every work day, if I'm around the office, I find the time to wander down to the ground floor to buy a cup of coffee and shoot the shit with Salim Essop who runs the little convenience store in our building.
Salim's a lovely bloke. Whip smart, funny, well-read, well-travelled and positively brimming with anecdotes and insights into just about any topic you can throw at him. He's worked all over the place in all sorts of different jobs - including what must have been a fascinating gig as an adviser to the Government of Vanuatu. He's also one of the founders of the Cabbagetown Bike Club - the prototype of the Community Bike Network, a growing movement of community workshop projects across North America.
Now, however, Salim keeps me and a few hundred other people in the building supplied with caffeine, muffins, gum, smokes, pop, and Miss Vickie's crisps.
I've been raving on at him about the power and importance of blogging for months now, and I'm completely delighted to see he's finally gorn and done it. A hearty blogosphere welcome to da store guy.
You have to admit: this is pretty cool.
In certain circles it's already getting so that you almost expect everyone in the room to have a blog - techies, reporters, flacks, squaddies - anyone.
But for the variety store guy to start blogging, we must really be approaching tipping point. Send him some traffic...
