Closing DCI party at olde65

Delegates get down at the closing jol at olde65. Thanks to all the organisers for a practical conference that we’ll all leave with new ideas!

The camera doesn’t matter

(mmm, picture isn’t showing on IE. Give me a moment while I try to figure this one out. I don’t think this fits into the rules for photoblogging :)) Thank goodness, it’s showing!
I’m attending the blogging in pictures workshop with Andrew Heavens, photojournalist and blogger. He has two rules for photoblogging:
1. The camera doesn’t matter
2. [...]

A thousand words

See the DCI’s moments in pictures on their Flickr moblog (mobile blog).
They’re much better quality than the ones I’ve been posting from my cellphone, of course.

Fascinating stuff from Ethan Zuckerman

I’ve taken notes during Ethan’s presentation but I can’t seem to bring it all together and I’m presenting in a couple of minutes, so bear with me. The picture is just one of the fascinating insights he voiced - that if you can’t sit at a computer, then it doesn’t work for you. And as [...]

DCI’s first words

Colin Daniels kicked off the indaba by thanking the sponsors - Osisa, Niza and the Highway Africa team - and his assistant, Carly Ritz (also of Jo’s Toolkit fame) who “diverted stress” and for her “heaps of attitude”.
Chris Kabwato, HA director, tried to understand why delegates have this “amazing level of interest” in the blogging [...]

Let the bloggers begin

Thirty minutes before the DCI Blogging Indaba starts, and my cellphone is telling me no data packets available. So no pictures from the conference for the time being. Disappointed!
I arrived at about 8am, lucky enough to have received a lift from Gregor (of Jo’s Toolkit fame) and Paul.

I have access from my cell again, and [...]