Elvira van Noort, from Holland originally, showed great enthusiasm for technology in Africa. She’s was a co-ordinator at the Digital Citizen Indaba this year and will be giving a new media angle to next year’s Grahamstown Arts Festival. She also took us through Africa News, an African-specific news portal with great breadth and reach, and will soon be starting her own business.

She’s looking for video editors to help grow that side of the business, so if you’re keen don’t hold back. Give her a shout!

Jeremy Nell, of Urban Trash and Ditwits fame, took hold of the microphone gangster-style and tried to come up with a definition for blogging in South Africa. He doesn’t have one, but guesses that it’s something about ‘complaining about using your own nick to submit on Muti’ or ‘talk about spending R30 000 on a boob job’. He’s not far wrong

Jeremy’s a straight-shooting kinda guy and makes for a fresh new style at PodCamp. Instead of trying to impress and get 500 links to his blog in a day, he just gets on with it. He calls himself a cartoonist and only writes blogs to fill the rest of the space on the page underneath his cartoons. But from reading any of his posts, he’s clearly got a lot to say (with brilliant wit) and, like any good cartoonist, he’s utterly and unashamedly self-deprecating.

But he gets serious for a second and talks about the benefits of combining blog posts with his comments. RSS feeds take his comics to users who subscribe and allow fans (or critics) to have their say. The more interaction, the better. And by the way, he’s unofficially trademarked ‘comic blog’ and ‘comic blogging’ - so no stealing! By this stage in his presentation, I’m having to stop to laugh inbetween typing. Jeremy could easily do stand-up. Something like a 21st century deadpan Basily Fawlty mixed with Conan O’Brien. Cooler, younger, smarter. But who else could end a presentation by telling his one offended reader that ‘their mother is kak in bed’?!

Last but not least, he mentioned a brand new Urban Trash character that he’ll be bringing to life soon, with a related competition being announced on Tuesday. We’re getting involved to some extent too, so watch this space next week.