Heather Ford
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From 2oceansvibe.com: Hmmm. Great readers. This from South Africa’s Best Blog. Jane probably said it best:
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Ok, so this is my last post about the matter. There were so many wonderful ideas that came out of this little storm today that I can’t help put them forward so that something constructive comes out of this. Maybe this will mean that next year, we will have more input into the process, or…
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Anyone could have predicted it. Make a comment about the state of blogging in South Africa by refering the winner of the SA Blog Awards and you get this: – insults about my blog and how boring it is; – reaffirmation about why the blog in question is so incredibly fabulous by its gang of…
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I’m still trying to work it out, but perhaps its as obvious as the number of readers of newspapers with headlines about young women having sex with aliens. I think it’s an indictment on SA blogging when 2oceansvibe wins 6 categories, including ‘Best South African’ blog in this year’s SA Blog Awards. I mean, I…
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My dear friend, Rike Sitas: passionate-creative-urban-genius has just sent me some of the raw footage from the documentary that her Durban-based NGO, “dala” (verb to make / create in isiZulu) is producing. The documentary is about the recent decision by the Durban municipality to hand over land on which a fresh produce market has been…
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Photo by Joi Ito on Flickr licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license I just wrote this post for Rising Voices and thought I’d share it here too. In Paulo Coelho’s latest book, ‘The Witch of Portobello‘, the character Nabil Alaihi says: “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something,…
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We had such great interest from our iHeritage seminar attendees on a digital copyright course, that we’ve decided to hold an intensive full-day course in Joburg, Durban and Cape Town. The course is aimed at: “Information professionals working in museums, archives, libraries; web developers, designers and creators working in the heritage sector, historians interested in…
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I’ve been trying to buy an image from Getty Images for the last few days and it’s been a harrowing experience. I’ve spent at least 2 hours trying to login to the system on Firefox. My relief was short lived when I eventually moved over to Safari: it appears that South Africa is not on…
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Gil Hockman has started a rad project called ‘the joburg‘ – an open calendar for events happening in Johannesburg. It’s a total community-driven, non-commercial project – factors which I think will make it grow exponentially in the future. According to Gil, The way it works is a follows: Google have a very cunning online setup…
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I just did an interview on Radio 702 with John Robbie about Wikipedia. I felt like it was incredibly cringeworthy but I know that I’m my worst critic. Aside from my poor delivery, I feel like the fact that was have to explain the intricacies of Wikipedia in two minutes is a major problem. It…
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