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Interview with Award winning Journalist Remmy Nweke on use of blogging in journalism

Kwami: when did you first create your blog? Remmy: I started blogging after the WSIS preparatory Conference in Accra. Kwami : why create a blog? Remmy : I have this particular need : the ability access to my previous articles electronically online unfortunately, my newspaper does not have an electronic archival system. I saw creating a blog a free way of having my own electronic archival of my past articles Kwami : This is a cool solution, when do you post stories to your blog? Remmy: I usually post stories to my blog after my publication in our newspaper. In this way, I post all articles I have ever written since then. Kwami : what other applications do you put blog to? Remmy: I use content in my blog as background to articles which are similar plus recently I made use of my blog archival in my course work at school ends
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Day Two at DCI( Interview with Ethan Zuckerman)

At second day of DCI, I spoke to Ethan Zuckerman www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/ on his previous, current work and blogging ++++ Kwami : Tell me last time, I heard about you were at geekcorps www.geekcorps.org/ , what happen since then? Ethan: I left in Sept 2004, the reason being geekcorps merger with IESC http://www.iesc.org/ after this partnership, IESC Geek Corps wanted to focus on doing business with the US government and USAID. This means a change of direction with more focus on countries such Iraq and Afghanistan. The issues the organisation was tackling was no longer important to me so I move on to The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ethan_zuckerman and currently working on www.globalvoicesonline.org/ issues which are important to me. ++ Kwami : When you were going into the partnership, did you see the risk of drastic changes taking place as mentioned Ethan : well, we saw the risk but we thought we can do a be...
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Editors Forum at DCI

forgive me, I am not structuring my blogging well today hope do not feel disjointed when reading it Chris Roper & Byran Porter(24.com), Juanita Williams (IOL) and Ray Hartley Ray from the Sunday Times of South said that we need to we are still at the begining of blogging movement. what are the characteristics of the new media environment according to Ray, multiprocessing is crucial secondly, the attention span of most audience are now very short half of what is know today was not know 10 yrs ago INFORMATION NAVIGATION is a new literacy which required beyond text and image navigation literacy i find the concept of information navigation interesting, becuase in our current state of so called information overload, you can not survive if you do not have this literacy related to this is the ECONOMIC OF ATTENTION ( Richard A Lanham) i believe here we are talking about how the end user negotiates the information supply and demand landmine BLINK SORRY TOO LATE in this new environment, peo...
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web 2 porno ????????????

Since the organiser of DCI could not still not figure a way of providing internet at the main building that is Rhodes Fine Art building, i have to be moving from back and fro between Fine Art building and Africa Media Matrix, basically catching up with internet at Africa Media Matrix. On one of the my trips back, I heard Web 2 porno (as in pornographic), thinking this was a new buzz word, I was totally wrong the speaker was actually saying Web 2 dot oh is this word web 2 dot zero or web 2 dot oh ( as in the alphabet) ? I walk to Zuckerman's after theis presentation on web 2.0, he confirm that web 2.0 is the american way of combination numbers and alphabet at is web dot oh and nobody was saying web 2 porno of course, the english english would say you it have to be web 2 dot zero hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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blogger conference starts in south africa

a two day blogging conference starts at Rhodes University, South Africa from today 14th september to 15 september check at the conference blog at http://dci.ru.ac.za/blog/ the venue of the conference is the Fine Art Building, unfortunately does not have Internet something to do with the "conference WIFI" which provides access to conference delegates on the rhodes network is not working in the particular building in order for blogging conference delegates to get access in the fine Art building, they must be given access to "rhodes WIFI" which is not possible we see how this precious asset = internet is made available in the Fine Art Building so I am sitting at Africa Media Matrix, the new home of Rhodes Journalism and Media Studies department blogging instead of sitting in the opening ceremony though I would walk over there soon
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high way africa starts at Rhodes university

over 400 journalists from all over africa are attending a three day conference at highway africa SEE STORY BELLOW 12 September 2006 (AfricaNews/ HANA ) - More than 500 delegates from 42 countries have gathered in Grahamstown, South Africa, for the 10th Highway Africa conference, the biggest ICT conference in Africa.The conference will assess the state of African media, particularly with regards to harnessing new technologies as well as the crucial role that new media has played in democracy and development. This year's gathering of media practitioners, private companies and NGOs will no doubt be a reflection and celebration of the past ten years and a springboard for the future of the organisation.Addressing the delegates, director of Highway Africa Chris Kabwato said it was possible for African journalists to shatter the myths that dictate how issues should be covered and represented through the media."Let us dare to challenge the economic policies and issues of democracy in ...
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