blogging
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I just found an email dated over a month ago from a representative from the agency Atmosphere Communications asking me to contribute to a project that they are working on ‘on behalf of the Economist’ in SA. According to the representative, the project aims to set up a temporary South African “microsite” called www.theunexpected.co.za in
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Friends Jess Hemerly and David Evan Harris have asked Simon Dingle and I (from SA, at least) to be judges in this awesome competition/community initiative from BoingBoing, Sun and the Institute for the Future where they work. As always, the devil is in the detail, and I really love the details of this competition –
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Awesome nerd merit badges!, originally uploaded by ten safe frogs. From BoingBoing – now they can award themselves the badge 🙂
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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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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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Just started doing the ‘blog edge’ blogging update on Cambrient’s ‘the digital edge’ podcast. Please be kind – this is my first one 🙂 I really love the podcast – short (around 20 minutes), snappy and ever-so fresh.
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Great news from Tectonic about the Independent Electoral Commission’s website now being open to non-IE users. Congrats to everyone who made this happen. The hundreds of emails, blog posts and complaints to the South African Human Rights Commission has done the trick. I love the comment by Friedel Wolff from translate.org.za below: Writing a feature on
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