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Blogging about Jacob Zuma not Malema

President Jacob Zuma dancing with Helen ZilleBlogging about politicians seems to be a sure-fire way to get extra traffic. Politicians like South African President, Jacob Zuma, is constantly in the news. All his speeches like those by Julius Malema feature heavily in the local news media and social media, sparking several fake profiles and debates in the last year especially. Back in 2007 someone emailed me a joke about Jacob Zuma and for some reason it remains one of the most popular pages on my website. Read More →

My first blog post

This is my first attempt at regular blogging. I began blogging on Blogger.com and eventually moved to my own domain, and after several hosting companies have now settled on Hostgator. The best movies out this week is obviously the swash buckling Pirates Of The Caribbean with Johnny Depp, one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. If you still haven't seen Jim Carrey's latest farce, Bruce Almighty, do yourself a favour and go and see the greatest comedic actor of the last 10 years! The book I am currently reading is The Art of Seduction by Robert Read More →

Jon Rappoport – What is a blog?

John Rappoport is a fascinating human being. Sharp critical thinker, informed, visionary, curious, precise, smart. He has all the traits that a successful news blogger should have today. on the other hand he himself doesn't classify himself as a "blogger" though he writes daily with great wit and passion at NoMoreFakeNews.com. His take on what blogs are, shot in Rome on May 21st 2005, goes a long way in showing his character and insight into the revolutionary world of grassroots media. For more on Jon please see: * The Future of News is for reality Producers * How Read More →

State of the Blogosphere Survey 2009

Over the years, Technorati has been tracking the State of the Blogosphere. Our annual study investigates how blogging is growing and changing, as well as its impacts on current events and the bottom lines of businesses and bloggers. Please share your perspective by participating in our survey. We think you'll find the survey interesting. It should take just 15 minutes of your time, and of course your answers will be completely confidential. Please feel free to send this link to other bloggers you know. And be sure to check back on Technorati in October for a summary of the Read More →

Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty

Last year I blogged about more efficient living in Johannesburg. This year I plan to blog about something my plan to solve poverty in Uitenhage over the next 20 years. All South African bloggers should get directly involved in Blog Action Day 2008 because poverty is the root cause of crime, health and all other social ills we face on the southern tip of Africa. Who needs politicians anyway? Stop voting while you are at it.


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PR 2.0 Blogging Workshop with Marlon Parker's Team

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 is doing his thesis on how technology can be used for social change and Read More →

Blogging Workshops at the 3rd annual Digital Citizen Indaba

This year I am attending the 3rd annual Digital Citizen Indaba, not as a speaker but a workshop facilitator on Tuesday, 9 September. I will be leaving from Grahamstown directly for two weeks in Johannesburg from 10-25 September. Anyway here's the event information directly from the hourse' mouth... The annual DCI is held at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September. The opening party in the evening of the 6th is at local pub Rat ‘n Parrot where Toby Shapshak (editor of Stuff magazine) will deliver a mind-blowing presentation as we mingle. - Read More →

27Dinner talk, Mutual-Aid between African Bloggers

Thank you very much to Dave Duarte and Max Kaizen who have both supported my drive to create stronger relationships between South African bloggers and those bloggers from the rest of Africa. This has nothing to do with with the Xenophobia attacks, although it will restore tremendous goodwill that has always been there in the blogging community - most South African bloggers may not have been aware of this until this talk at the bi-monthly 27Dinner event in Cape Town.

I delivered for me one of the most important messages since I began blogging in Read More →

Why blogging from your phone in South Africa is not there yet

A Question from a Reader: Hola Ramon! I got a few problems regarding my new blogging and email site, 24.com, which I struggle just to open my emails both on my phone, using Opera Mini, and on my PC, which I understand is way slow to connect to the 'net even when I use Opera(which is faster than Windows Explorer) because the phone I use(as a modem) to connect is not that fast because it's only 3G, not HSDPA. It was even slower when I was trying to open my emails at Gmail that it ate all my airtime up and Read More →

How healthy a blogger are You?

This is the full interview for a story published on Health24 on 12 May 2008. Questions 1: As we are a health website, the article is mostly focused on the psychology of blogging. Why do you think people blog and why do you think it’s so popular? People have an inherent desire to express themselves. The mainstream media is controlled by a few companies and bloggers, who tend to more educated, better access to the Internet, realise they don't have to play by society's rules to say what they want to say, when they want to say it and how they Read More →