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Day2 Blogging Conference Online Activism Panel

ByRamon Thomas 15/09/200614/06/2025

The activism session started on an okay foot with Ethan Zuckerman, hosting the panel discussion. Next to him were two leading online political activists: Alaa Abd El Fattah, the Egyptian blogger who has been jailed for his activism and Ory Okolloh from the Kenyan Pundit blog. Ory’s session was to the point and highlights the…

Events

South Africa's first Blogging Conference

ByRamon Thomas 14/09/200612/06/2025

The conference has been a long time coming. And being a blogger myself, I just had to attend. Because it is such an excellent niche topic, “blogging”, this conference will grow in popularity in the coming years. I applaud the people from New Media Lab @ Rhodes University’s School of Journalism & Media Studies who…