Updates
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“I met the walrus”
‘In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years…
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What happens when a (female) blogger complains
From 2oceansvibe.com: Hmmm. Great readers. This from South Africa’s Best Blog. Jane probably said it best:
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The (new) blog awards
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…
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The real conversation
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…
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The blog awards
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…
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“Shopping Mall vs Market”
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…
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How (and how not) to teach blogging
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…
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Training on digital copyright and access for the heritage industry
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…
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Gatvol with Getty
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…
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