i had high hopes for sas political parties and their use of the web. in an interview with sapa on iol my colleagues didnt share my optimism. in an independent electoral commission iec presentation in pretoria this year i urged political parties to take online seriously and demonstrated the barack obama websites innovative use of social media that was befo...... [Show More]
last month saw our very first venture up north for the first heavy chef session in the dark dangerous streets of johannesburg. fortunately we werent killed and the talk went swimmingly especially as we were situated in the opulent luxury of the twiice international showroom.
mike louis and i got the ball rolling with a presentation on smoke mirrors and social media which you can...... [Show More]
los bloggers africanos estan dispuestos a hacer ruido en la conferencia de bloggers africanos kelele 09 porque kelele significa ruido en swahili . el lema de este aao es toca tu tambor . erik uno de los principales organizadores explica que este lema conecta el matodo africano tradicional para hacer llegar un mensaje a lo largo de vastas distancias con las nuevas herramientas ...... [Show More]
publicado originalmente el 15 de septiembre del 2008.
la semana pasada 700 periodistas bloggers investigadores estudiantes y legisladores de mas de 40 paases africanos tomaron parte en los tres daas de discusian debates y entrenamiento en la 12a edician de la conferencia highway africa autopista africa en grahamstown sudafrica. highway africa es la mas grande reunian de perio...... [Show More]
i was on twitter reading this message from stormhoek anyone fancys an early stormhoek christmas present go to httptin yurl.coms tormhoek is v limited first come first serve . if you go to the link you can read what is about our cunning plan is to try see how fast and how far we can reach as many people as possible on multiple media platforms so we will be using blogging twi...... [Show More]
i had the pleasure of meeting temi kolawole at barcamp africa in mountain view last week. he recently launched a web startup called sturvs which could be described in short as nig eria8217 s answer to digg.com.
the word stu rvs is a nigerian slang for stu ff. so basically this is just a place for you to view and share all your internet stuff.
sturvs....... [Show More]
it has been one week since kelele was announced and were incredibly surprised and happy with the uptake within the african blogosphere around it. this is true also amongst sponsors as well.
harvards berkman institute for internet and society
a longtime supporter of blogging in africa the berkman institute at harvard was the first one that came on board. in fact they have...... [Show More]
1. in the past weeks 80 of videos accessed at you tube have given me the dreaded video is not available message. unless you tube remove the videos and leave all the metadata those damned videos exist. i spent yesterday trying to access a video i know exists. ed dale said so. i gave up in disgust.
2. youtube allows a max upload of 10 minutes or 10 mb zoopy allows 100mb and no time limit...... [Show More]
tomorrow i am training a team of loyal drug counsellors from impact direct ministries on how to use blogging to get themselves onto television radio newspapers or magazines all things i have done because of my blogging . they are learning fast and furiously about technology from marlon parker senior lecturer at cape peninsula university of technology . marlon is a ph.d candidate who ...... [Show More]
contrary to popular belief africa is not completely absent from the internet. in fact the continent at large is undergoing a connectivity revolution unlike anything it has ever seen. mobile phones in particular are propagating at an incredible rate with penetration ranging from 30 to 100. the average is 30.4 and there are 280 million subscribers in total making africa the fas...... [Show More]
nic and tyler headed out to the launch of the iphone in south africa . lucky fscks anyway they got some great pictures and heres the first video
im horribly jealous...... [Show More]
zoopy.com is running a competition giving you the chance to win 100gb of bandwidth a geek dream if you ask me
the process is simple
1. sign up at zoopy.com or login if you already have a zoopy profile
2. upload a video photo or podcast you have 200mb per file to play with
3. come back to the myadsl forum and post your zoopy profile url
at noon on frida...... [Show More]
the simpsons poker Post Source: playplaypoker.com Posted: Sep 18 2008 18:04:40
una de mis series favoritas no se podaa quedar fuera de una de mis aficiones favoritas. por supuesto en la serie de los simpsons tambian hay alusiones a los juegos de azar y mas concretamente al poker. si ya disfrutabamos con las andanzas de bart las ocurrencias de lisaa los disparates de homer etc ahora ya salo nos queda reirnos a carcajadas jeje
en uno de mis capitulos favorit...... [Show More]
la scorsa settimana 700 tra giornalisti blogger ricercatori studenti e policymaker di oltre 40 paesi africani hanno preso parte a una tre giorni di discussioni dibattiti e formazione nel corso della dodicesima edizione della conferenza highway africa in a grahamstown in south africa. highway africa a la conferenza pia importante dedicata a per giornalisti e addetti ai lavori del conti...... [Show More]
los ciudadanos de a pie que usan sus telafonos maviles e interneta para informar sobre acontecimientos relevantes estan teniendo un impacto importante en la polatica en muchas partes del mundo.
el mavil por ejemplo ha desempeaado un gran papel en la forma en que los resultados de las elecciones se han retransmitido en varias partes de africa entre ellas zimbabwe.
estos informes gen...... [Show More]
wordcamps are popping up everywhere in china japan australia israel utah toronto vancouver portland and more. are you tracking wordpress 2.7 development martha stewart now does wordpress and windows. super cache updated. wordpressmu upgraded. ozh wants your input on the next version of wordpress theme toolkit. and more wordpress news.
wordpress news
tracking wordpress development ...... [Show More]
next wednesday eve cape town will pingback after seeing so many of the blogger community from joburg for wordcamp more last week. at the sa business schools expo at the sandton sun epiphany the new baby in collaboration with huddlemind homebase is doing a transcity mashup of minds . on an issue that seems to be affecting all of us particularly if we work in new me...... [Show More]
wordcamp 2008 in san francisco videos should be out any time. lots of wordcamp news including last weekends wordcamp south africa and upcoming wordcamps in portland hawaii birmingham charlotte raleighdurham utah philippines and more. jeffro asks you to stop blaming wordpress. crazyhorse shakes the wordpress 2.7 trunk. how to switch from typepad to wordpress with only a little stress...... [Show More]
wordcamp was by far the best event i attended this year. the speakers list was phenomenal as was the turnout over 100 bloggers geeks and journalists attended wordcamp that was held at the wild fig in cape town.
the biggest highlight for most of us was matt mullenweg the founder of wordpress coming out to south africa to speak and mingle with us bloggers. as part of younique we som...... [Show More]
awesome to be here at wordcamp sa 2008 . i have charl norman live blogging the event so catch wordcamps updates as they happen.
wordcamp on zoopy
check out the custom channel of wordcamp sa on zoopy that mark from yellow llama designed and check out the uploaded photos and videos of the event.
twitter
how about all the tweets that are flying around check out anything tagged with...... [Show More]
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