Last night was a cause for celebration at the 10th annual SABC/Highway Africa Innovative Use of New Media Awards (broadcast live on satellite) where two of our 4th-year new media students, Gregor Rohrig and Carly Ritz won an award in the Non-Profit category for their excellent local journalism portal Jo’s Toolkit. I have spoken about [...]

So I’ve haven’t blogged in a while due to an insane work schedule as a result of the DCI, but I can assure you that it’s all been worth it because with under a week to go until the event commences, we have a brilliant speaker line-up and a full house of delegates. The final [...]

The Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) on Blogging is a 2 day conference that I am co-ordinating in association with Osisa and Niza which will take place in September, 14-15th straight after Highway Africa in Grahamstown. Vincent and I got the site live on Friday and officially launched it today. We are hoping to limit the [...]

This is a post bound to interest other bloggers. So my beloved Nokia N70 was recently lost/stolen/who cares etc. and I was faced with a very tough decision – one of those decisions you prefer having to make only once a year. What new phone to get. The N70 was on contract and cost a [...]

So what do you do if you’re the government of the world’s largest democracy and unknown terrorists have killed over 200 people in a spree of train bombings that occurred more than a week ago and you still don’t have any real leads? Ban the Blogosphere of course!!! This was the Indian government’s knee-jerk response [...]