My face is purple, Gerry’s is dark pink, we both have issues with muscle pain and are just getting to bed now. Why? The Boks are back in town. We spent most of today in the company of some of the nicest guys in the country. They also happen ...
Urban Trash, the home-bred comic strip from the pen and mind of Jeremy Nell, announced today that they’re turning all Rocky Horror on us. Jeremy’s creating a new character for his strip and to make it more interactive for his readers, ...
He’s a genuinely nice guy. Down to earth, in touch with technology and just as excited as the rest of us to take South Africa to the next internet frontier!
Today’s just proved what an awesome country South Africa really is. On the one hand, we have some super sharp minds shaping our collective online future at PodCamp. On the other, we de-flower the Roses and snatch the Rugby World Cup trophy....
Podcampers from over 60 companies / walks of life / backgrounds have converged under one roof at The Wild Fig for Podcamp Cape Town 2007, an un.conference that’s attracted the majority of the new media community in Cape Town. Looking aro...
Still live blogging from PodCamp Cape Town 2007 - and it’s going brilliantly. It’s like an extra-long, super-concentrated 27 Dinner, with a room filled with some of the sharpest, most creative and most excited minds in the industry...
Dave’s grabbed the microphone and is shooting around the room, all fired up to share his thoughts on the Attention Economy. What’s that? Basically it’s about attaching value to eyeballs. It’s about idea snacking and chi...
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 Fest...
Llew Claasen from KeyJam.net (a web training academy) had some theories upfront. And some serious theories later on. Between balancing loops, reinforcing loops and limits-to-growth-systems, not to mention Metcalfe’s Law. A little above m...
Glen took us through a live podcasting session, using Audacity - an open source audio editor. Seated with a microphone/headset combo, it was clear that this is where Glen’s in full control. His knowledge on podcasting, from audio comment...
Political and journalistic structures in this country have hit another dip in the rollercoaster. Just when you thought that Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and the paper’s deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker were off tronk toe, out come...
Nine and a half days from now, we’ll be seated comfortably at the country’s first Podcamp UnConference, where we’ll be co.giving of our co.selves to co.create and co.mmunicate about all things wild and digital We can’t wai...
What a terrible week in the lives of some magazine publishers. At least Media24 came clean about the irregularities in their circulation figures. We were there to cover their Cape Town press conference with Bizcommunity and the tension in the room...
