Hblog
A blog by hfordsa
Blog description:
Heather Ford's blog
Blog Rank:
Hblog ranks 271 in Africa and 168 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 926, and 1012 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 236 and 548 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Twitter made me do it – my thoughts on the .za Geek Retreat
The past few months have been an important story in soul-searching for me. After being shoved gently out of the international non-profit I helped build for three very long years in August, I looked beseechingly to my fellow South Africans. ‘Tell me you’re not as cruel as the rest
Digital Open seeks a few more international stewards
From now until and August 15, 2009, Institute for the Future, Sun Microsystems, and Boing Boing invite young people from around the world, age 17 and under, to join us as we explore the frontiers of free and open innovation. The Digital Open: An Innovation Expo for Global Youth
The ‘Digital Open’ is now open
Friends Jess Hemerly and David Evan Harris have asked Simon Dingle and I (from SA, at least) to be judges in this awesome competition/community initiative from BoingBoing, Sun and the Institute for the Future where they work. As always, the devil is in the detail, and I really
Nerd merit badges
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Awesome nerd merit badges!, originally uploaded by ten safe frogs. Originally from BoingBoing - now they can award themselves the
The underbelly of the SA web
Ziphezinhle Msimango has written a great article for the Sunday Times (’Surf and Strange Turf‘) about some of the ‘underground’ sites in SA that cover things like ‘boer fanaticism, black pornography and infidelity’. I often hear people of my parent’s generation talking about how ‘evil’ the Internet is, but
“I met the walrus”
‘In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as
What happens when a (female) blogger complains
From 2oceansvibe.com: Hmmm. Great readers. This from South Africa’s Best Blog. Jane probably said it best: Heather picture-24 picture-25 picture-26 picture-27 picture-28 picture-29 picture-33
The (new) blog awards
Ok, so this is my last post about the matter. There were so many wonderful ideas that came out of this little storm today that I can’t help put them forward so that something constructive comes out of this. Maybe this will mean that next year, we will have
The real conversation
Anyone could have predicted it. Make a comment about the state of blogging in South Africa by refering the winner of the SA Blog Awards and you get this: - insults about my blog and how boring it is; - reaffirmation about why the blog in question is so
The blog awards
I’m still trying to work it out, but perhaps its as obvious as the number of readers of newspapers with headlines about young women having sex with aliens. I think it’s an indictment on SA blogging when 2oceansvibe wins 6 categories, including ‘Best South African’ blog in this year’s
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