Here are my thoughts on Murdoch’s broadside against Google and other online leeches, published today on South Africa’s top IT news site, ITWeb. I agree with him, feel for him, and wish him well, but I’m not convinced even he’s got the clout to recork the genie bottle.

Also, published on Tuesday on The Daily Maverick: Peace, love and schadenfreude. Why is being an advocate of free-market capitalism enough to get you damned? Poor people need the free market more than anybody else.

This story was great fun to write. It started as a humorous tweet on Friday night. By the end of the evening, I had my moon expedition all organised.

On Saturday, my plan to colonise the moon was published on The Daily Maverick. Thanks to the locals at Bosun’s in Knysna, and my friends on Twitter, for their contributions. The cherry on top was returning to Bosun’s to find that the people who though I was joking (or drunk) were muttering darkly about being left out of the story.