This is the third time I am involved in coordinating the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa and this year promises to be the best so far. Not only do we expect 300 delegates, DCI is now also a two-day event! It takes place on 5 and 6 September. Our theme is ‘Digital [...]
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DCI for digital activism and social justice
This is the third time I am involved in coordinating the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa and this year promises to be the best so far. Not only do we expect 300 delegates, DCI is now also a two-day event! It takes place on 5 and 6 September. Our theme is ‘Digital civil society and journalism in Africa’ and you can follow our live updates on our DCI website.
Multimedia blogging at the National Arts Festival
Grahamstown is waking up. The gradual change from a sleepy student town to National Arts Festival mayhem follows a years-old tradition: the re-painting of the city centre road marks and affixing the brightly-coloured nameplates to the numerous venues. It’s that time of the year when B&B’s and shops repaint theirexterior and the lawns are put [...]
Grahamstown is waking up. The gradual change from a sleepy student town to National Arts Festival mayhe
m follows a years-old tradition: the re-painting of the city centre road marks and affixing the brightly-coloured nameplates to the numerous venues. It’s that time of the year when B&B’s and shops repaint theirexterior and the lawns are put in shipshape.
For me it is time to get ready for what is now publicly known as a circus. This one does not involve tigers, elephants or horses but just a whole lot of clowns, acrobats and jugglers. Its our own media circus in the African Media Matrix building at Rhodes University.
African blogosphere post in top most read ‘08!
What a pleasant surprise! My story “De Afrikaanse blogosphere: tijd voor een update” ended up in the most read stories of 2008 on ‘De Nieuwe Reporter‘ (a well-respected Dutch blog platform for journalists).
What a pleasant surprise! My story “De Afrikaanse blogosphere: tijd 
voor een update” ended up in the most read stories of 2008 on ‘De Nieuwe Reporter‘ (a well-respected Dutch blog platform for journalists).
CampusBlog.nl is (almost) up and running
What an awesome, enthusiastic group of fourth year journalism students! Which students? Those who will be multimedia blogging on CampusBlog from next week.
The journalism students are joined by eight media technology students who can help with the make-over and redesign of the blog. It’s a real life exercise in crossmedia journalism.
What an awesome, enthusiastic group of fourth year journalism students! Which students? Those wh
o will be multimedia blogging on CampusBlog from next week.
The journalism students are joined by eight media technology students who can help with the make-over and redesign of the blog. It’s a real life exercise in crossmedia journalism.
New Media Orientation week huge success
Before you realise it’s Friday and a whole week of publishing about fact checking is over. The first year journalism students in Utrecht were taught to work in a Content Management System, to phone journalists and sources to confront them with the facts from the articles, upload their post and multimedia onto the blog and [...]
Before you realise it’s Friday and a whole week of publishing about fact checking is over. The first year journalism students in Utrecht were taught to work in a Content Management System, to phone journalists and sources to confront them with the facts from the articles, upload their post and multimedia onto the blog and interview guest speakers.