Tag Archives: Blog

7 Tips to Becoming a Better Blogger: The Nigerian Perspective

The word ‘blog’, ‘blog­ger’ or ‘blog­ging’ come into exis­tence with the advent of Web 2.0. Web­sites such as www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com pro­vided a free means (e.g. www.spiritofjesus.blogspot.com or www.charmingff.wordpress.com) for peo­ple who are gen­er­ally referred to as blog­gers to have a blog (an online jour­nal) where they can share their thoughts or knowl­edge (blog­ging) almost …

January 5, 2010 – 4:18 pm | By Adesoji | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Nigeria: Can we engage politely?

When Nige­ri­ans com­ment in pub­lic forums, what are the odds that the dis­course will be polite, respect­ful, con­tex­tual and useful?

January 4, 2010 – 5:26 pm | By Akin Akintayo | Posted in Culture and Society, General, World Affairs | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Let’s Talk about Web Baby!! – Naija Emerges

What do I want to dis­cuss on the Blogeria-sphere this week? Let’s talk about Nige­ria as an emer­gent mar­ket for web. To say it is ripe is an under­state­ment and to my immense plea­sure Nige­ri­ans them­selves are respond­ing and gen­er­at­ing their own grass roots prod­ucts and web-services. I read blogs across a lot of top­ics and I’m increas­ingly inspired by the blogs that feed my desire to see the Naija geek brigade devel­op­ing and push­ing for­ward prod­ucts not just for Nige­ria but for the world.

May 4, 2009 – 12:36 am | By lolobloggs | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Of femininity and feminism

By Uduak of Noll­yarts When Loom­nie asked me to do a review of blogs, my first ques­tion was whether it must be on a seri­ous topic as I had been fol­low­ing the entries on the blog. He said no, but was quick to add that a seri­ous topic would be pre­ferred. In my head I …

April 20, 2009 – 9:50 am | By nigerianstalk | Posted in Culture and Society, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | View Comments