What’s the whole buzz about WordPress 2.5?

As you may have heard WordPress 2.5, the much hyped upgrade from 2.3 skipping 2.4 has been delayed for more than the promised week. I don’t know much about what they’ll be doing with the new release and took a little peak at the demo site. So what is really different about WordPress 2.5 Admin [...]

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nomad-one.com nominated in SA Blog awards – Vote for me!!!

Today just keeps getting better for me, my blog has also been nominated in the category Best Blog about Design in the SA Blog Awards. Thanks to all those who nominated me, much appreciated, though the guys I am competing with make it really difficult to get past this point. So give me some help [...]

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WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Monday 18 Feb

Finally it’s here, something I’ve been wanting to organise myself but haven’t managed to get around to doing, an (un)conference style wordpress meetup, and hopefully only the first of many to happen in Cape Town. Callum Macdonald, nomadic web worker and travelling entrepreneur hailing from Scotland was responsible for setting the ball in motion after [...]

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SA Blog awards nominations to kick off soon – do I stand a chance?

Some of you might know that the South African Blog Awards group met to plan the event a few days ago at Cafe Neo in Mouille Point Cape Town. I tried to make it but missed the boat by about 30 minutes or so and caught Dave Duarte hanging around afterwards meeting with some people. [...]

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A few new tools in my belt

Testing, testing, windows live writer blog post no.1. I’ve just connected my blog to Windows Live Writer, a desktop application which allows you to write & posts from the comfort of your PC’s desktop. I’ve experienced problems writing and editing posts at times when my Internet connection is unreliable so I hope this little app [...]

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Web Guru Spotlight 2: Chris Garrett – Pro blogger and online media strategist

Today we will be speaking to Chris Garrett, professional blogger and online media strategist. Chris runs his blog www.chrisg.com which discusses among other things, blogging, internet marketing and new media. He also runs an internet marketing companies, omiq, which aims to help organisations achieve more through their online activities. Good day Chris and welcome to [...]

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I’m looking to “virtually” attend Podcamp Cape Town

I’m so disappointed to be out of town for this event that I’m thinking about attending virtually. How? Using MSN & a webcam and linking up with anyone at the event willing to do the same. I think doing so will be a great way to extend the attendance and show the power of online [...]

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Podcamp Cape Town – 20 October

Part of getting to know what’s new and who’s who in the new media industry and web 2.0 scene is attending events. The upcoming Podcamp event is one I’m very sad to be missing since I’ll be out of Cape Town on the day. I hope to be able to link up the the event [...]

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Chris Garret – on blogging and internet marketing

On the lookout for new tricks and techniques to get my blog and those of my clients more airtime I came across Chris Garret (a professional blogger and online media consultant). You might ask, what is a professional blogger, isn’t blogging just some kind of hobby or something someone does in their spare time. If [...]

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