Morgan Sowden

While most my friends are artists or writers, Morgan is an enterpreneur in best sense of that word - a creative and inovative one. Free thinker and hard worker.

Part British and part Italian, Morgan knew both these languages as a native and by the time we met in Prague, he could speak unusually well Czech. When he moved to the post-war Sarajevo to open an internet cafe, he "naturally" picked up Serbo-Croatian.

For a while, Morgan's cafe was "the only game in town" and among regulars were UN officials, students, mafia-types, businessmen, tech-heads and even a few grandmas who stopped for cakes and coffees. It was a funny mix of people and Morgan handled it all with his natural sense of humor - a rare ingredient in a country full of bulletholes and cemetaries. (See Sarajevo trip pictures in the My Travels section).

But a lot of things natural for Morgan are struggle for all the rest of us - computers for instance. Morgan wrote his first program when he was 8 and didn't stop since. He's the original co-founder of Ringo.com, a genius system for friend-networking which he built while he lived in San Francisco. Morgan initiates many such projects along with his work for major clients.

In another such fun project he teamed up with Ken Nash to create RudeMountain.com, as a response to the cute greeting card site BlueMountain.com - Ken's cards say it like it is under the motto: "Tell them what your really think about them." The contents of Rude Mountains were later merged with Morgan's new venture jokenews.co.uk

With Morgan, the only question is always: "What's next?" and I'm already looking forward to it, whatever it may be.