SA Rocks

Cool idea, nice execution. I like it.

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This video was created by the incredibly talented Mike Scott.

Another rocking production by Goldfish and colab with Mike. Fantastic work.

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The guys at Goldfish seem to be working themselves silly.

The latest video release from them is great and provides a bit of insight in to the video itself. These guys just keep getting better and better.

Courtesy of 2OceansVibe.

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My absolute adoration for Plush has just grown in leaps and bounds after watching their new music video. These are socially aware gentlemen.

Have a look and a listen:

This video is astounding and moved me. I sincerely hope that they youth will get the message and get registered and vote in the upcoming elections.

Get the picture dammit. You need to vote, it is YOUR democracy and with your one vote you can help to improve the state of our democracy. One vote.

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OpenSA! launches in Johannesburg today with a pilot project to make South African heritage more accessible for remixing and re-publishing by online creators. In collaboration with SA Rocks and the African Commons Project, OpenSA! is collecting, tagging and managing donations from people who are willing to make their material freely available online. OpenSA! will also be helping to coordinate outreach to South Africa’s young creators to enable them to learn more about how to find open content that they are free to remix and share.

As access to the Internet grows in South Africa, so too does the range of creative activity by a new generation of active online citizens. Internet publishing in the form of blogging and citizen journalism, online publishing of photographic, video and music publishing are all part of a wide range of democratic speech that we as a young nation are trying to encourage and nurture.

There are some moments in the history and culture of South Africa that are part of our shared heritage – such as Nelson Mandela’s speech when he was released from prison in 1990 or Thabo Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ speech. For the first time in history we have the means to make those moments available to more than just the professional journalists, filmmakers and researchers who were traditionally authorized to re-publish them.

OpenSA! is a pilot project dedicated to the growing number of young South Africans who are finding their voice online. The project was started in order to nurture this creativity by making it easier for young creators to find and share media about our heritage safely and legally.

Gregor Rohrig appears to be one of the first to contribute to OpenSA!. This is a great move for us as Gregor’s photography is some of the best that I’ve seen of South Africa and its people.

One of the main concepts around this project is the public domain. To find out a bit more info about public domain, what it is and what it means check out the blog post on iHeritage.co.za.

For additional information, please contact Heather Ford
Phone: 011 327 3155 or 082 872 7374

Email: heather@africancommons.org

The African Commons Project is a non-profit organization based in Johannesburg with the goal of mobilizing communities through active participation in collaborative technology (www.africancommons.org).

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Wow I haven’t thought of, seen or heard of this ad in AGES. What a cheese-ball-filled-ripper!

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This might be american-centric but it’s relevant to the post that I wrote yesterday. Vote, register, have a voice, believe in something and if you do, then vote.

YOU HAVE TO VOTE.

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Here’s the new Prime Circle video directed by Morgan Dingle.

Nice.

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I am glad that the guys at Braaiday are trying there hand at the web eventually! They have redesigned their website and I think they might have created this video:

I am not 100% sure that the Braaiday mense created this video. If you know the truth, set me free. Whether they did or not it’s still spot on and in true braai spirit!

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Believe it or not one South African is raking in the views on his stand-up comedy video on YouTube.

Khaya Dlanga is making a seriously funny name for himself online. His comedic approach is intelligent and funny with a local twang to it that strikes home. He has a massively animated face that tells his story for him while he tells the jokes.

Please take some time, do yourself a favour and watch this video:

His incredible videos have been viewed over 1.2million times since the end of 2006.

Brilliant!

Thanks to Dave for this cool post.

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