TEDxJohannesburg @ Arts on Main — 7 Nov 2010

Good morning. The crowd is trickling into the rather interesting warehouse-style building on Main Street where this year’s TEDx Johannesburg is about to kick off somewhat late. After a catastrophic computer failure, I’m on a borrowed MacBook Pro. I have no idea how to work an Apple, but at least I’m connected, so that’s a start.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #TEDxJhb.

This will be a single-post live blog. Reload this post regularly for chronological updates. Any regular text is (roughly) direct reporting or quotation. If I insert my own comments, I’ll put them in square brackets.

Hope you enjoy not being here as much as I expect those who are here will enjoy it.

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