@BOOKSA Twitter Weekly Updates 2009-12-20

December 20th, 2009 by Ben - Editor

Jack Parow – Cooler as Ekke – “ek is ‘n flash drive, jy is ‘n floppy” – must watch musiekvideo: http://bit.ly/8nko7n #
@KevinMcCallum It was very painful to watch. Hopefully Biff will now go on to play like Swann. Tks for yr tweets. in reply to KevinMcCallum #
Ja, but @KevinMcCallum, would Harris have got his 5-fer if the bitches had pitched it up? (Aaarrrrgggh!) #
2009: Nigeria’s Year of the Short Story (Plus: a Report from Lagos on the “Macmillan Literary Night”) http://book.co.za/jNtq #
E-reader Technology: E Ink, SiPix, Bridgestone http://book.co.za/qNf1 #
Michelle Magwood Reviews Daddy’s Girl by Margie Orford http://book.co.za/qGVc #carrot #
RT @LondonBookFair: Author’s e-book deal to change publishing industry? #stephencovey http://bit.ly/7s5nx5
#LBF #
@KevinMcCallum All five… Pure bliss. @NicDawes #testcricket (Unrelated aside: nice piece on Invictus, Kevin.) in reply to KevinMcCallum #
@NicDawes (Best of all, of course, is when you have all four running simultaneously) (@KevinMcCallum) #testcricket in reply to NicDawes #
@NicDawes Radio is best, CricInfo’s ball-by-ball is 2nd, Guardian’s OBO is 3rd, Twitter is 4th #testcricket (@KevinMcCallum) in reply to NicDawes #
So that’s what happened to Twitter this morning: it was hacked. I mean, SERIOUSLY hacked: http://bit.ly/6Wb7vB (via @mashable) #
RT @HuffPostTech: Wikipedia Is A ‘Pro-Obama,’ ‘Tax-Exempt SCAM’ Senate Candidate Claims http://bit.ly/7S9Gof <- What a kook! #
RT @langaa_rpcig In Memoriam: Mbella Sonne Dipoko – The [Cameroonian] Bard Who Dared To Be Different http://bit.ly/8UHJ24 #
Vicensia Shule Reviews Married But Available by Francis Nyamnjoh http://book.co.za/Jquv #
Petina Gappa: Don’t Call Me an “African Writer” http://book.co.za/oBYo #
Patrick Bond on cap-and-trade in Counterpunch http://bit.ly/5oSUWJ #cop15 #
@Anatinus Maverick, Iceman, Goose, Viper, Stinger… Charlie in reply to Anatinus #
RT @arthurattwell @macslocum Waiting all my (Web) life for something like Google’s Browser Size tool. http://bit.ly/5cM4Q1 <- Great tool #
@Anatinus ‘You can be my wingman anytime.’ ‘Bullshit. … You can be mine.’ in reply to Anatinus #
Charlotte Bauer Reviews Festive France: Reflections and Recipes from the French Countryside http://book.co.za/dH9Z #
Deal Watch: K Sello Duiker’s Novels to be Translated into German, French, Norwegian and Arabic http://book.co.za/o72q #
RT @comedybot: [Referring to a glass of water] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don’t trust anybody. — Steven Wright #
RT @RandomStruik: Bill Branch Uncovers Pygmy Chameleon in Mozambique http://book.co.za/llPq <- Pretty cool story #
RT @langaa_rpcig: Decolonizing the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiong’o http://bit.ly/7shAFc <- Excerpt #
@esterl Thanks for reading in reply to esterl #
Ugandan Publisher to Expand to other African Countries http://book.co.za/8bGA #
Digter Diana Ferrus oor haar Winternachten ervaring in Turkeye http://book.co.za/ZAxm #
RT @JacanaMedia: Mangcu vs Zapiro: A Locking of Horns over President Zuma http://book.co.za/OMx3 #
Lindsey Collen’s Mutiny Africa’s “Best Unread Book” of the Decade? http://book.co.za/EFIK #
Link Love: Helga’s Big Splash by Matthew Kalil and Archie Collier http://book.co.za/h88b #
RT @PanMacmillanSA: Video: Interview with Peter Magubane on CNN http://book.co.za/3rfp #
@Mimi0 @VictorDlamini Jani knows Barcelona backwards, give her a shout if you’d like any tips. #
Heindrich Wyngaard gesels met André P Brink oor dáárdie beurs http://book.co.za/NDWi #
Meneesha Govender Reviews Perfect Weekend by Dominique Herman and Brett Florens http://book.co.za/mrwT #
RT @laurenbeukes: Want to pay your respects to #Manto? Buy a copy of Touch, SA short stories, all proceeds to TAC. http://bit.ly/4Dhh6V #
It’s an Invasion! South African Writers off to the 2010 London Book Fair in Droves http://book.co.za/Y3gE #
The New York Times Reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe http://book.co.za/7H5B #
RT @RonIrwin My online #creativewriting course is filling up. Have one sign up from New Zealand, another in Canada. http://bit.ly/48AWnR #
@brodiegal …or did you mean, open at 9pm? in reply to brodiegal #
@brodiegal Re Salvation Cafe: had lunch there last Wednesday. in reply to brodiegal #
“A petabyte of data is roughly equivalent to 799 million copies of the novel Moby Dick.” http://bit.ly/63qRzB #
“Things that will not save publishing” (incl the Unicorn), plus one thing that might, by Booksquare http://bit.ly/57bndg via @electricbook #
RT @NBPublishers: Nelson Mandela’s Favourite African Folktales Nominated for a Grammy http://book.co.za/NC6y #
André Brink for Author of the Day Slot at the London Book Fair http://book.co.za/Hd0V #lbf #
RT @StoryTimeAfrica: Next up fresh fiction from Masimba Musodza http://storytime-masimba-musodza.blogspot.com/ #
Tymon Smith’s Top Ten SA Books of 2009 (with Podcasts) http://book.co.za/m3Rb #
BOOK SA loves the Book Lounge… http://flic.kr/p/7o3qdo #
Kalk Bay Books’ Cornucopia of Xmas Book Recommendations http://book.co.za/1l6r #
Coetzee and Mgqolozana in Zvomuya and Accone’s Top Ten Books of the Year http://book.co.za/EzSK #
RT @ChrisRoperZA: The M&G Ministers Report Card – now for you to rate them. Give Zuma that B+, go on. http://bit.ly/61bq42 #
Miné Venter Reviews Till We Can Keep An Animal by Megan Voysey-Braig http://book.co.za/cqRs #stick #
Katharine Kilalea’s One Eye’d Leigh Shortlisted for the Costa Awards; Win a Copy http://book.co.za/49ag #
Adéle Dempers Resenseer Karoonag en ander verhale deur Deon Meyer http://book.co.za/VjnM #
Christopher Merrett Reviews Transient Caretakers: How to make life on Earth sustainable http://book.co.za/6nPl #
RT @brodiegal Williams Kentridge’s 2010 soccer poster, available from David Krut http://twitpic.com/ti3ag #
@brodiegal Excellent, thanks. You telling me that the original costs R5k x 2010?? in reply to brodiegal #
@brodiegal Can you post a pic? #kentridge in reply to brodiegal #
RT @Laughitoffblog: New blog post: FREE MALEMA http://www.laughitoff.co.za/2009/12/free-malema/ #
RT @parisreview: What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. -Mary McCarthy http://bit.ly/6w4pAB #
RT @LondonBookFair: Indian poet Dilip Purushottam Chitre passes away http://bit.ly/5iEHqV #LBF #
RT @Anatinus: Aussie doctor solves mystery of Charles Darwin’s debilitating illness: http://tinyurl.com/ydyommv #cyclicalvomitingsyndrome #
RT @electricbook: Shortcovers to carry 1.8m public-domain epub ebooks from the Internet Archive http://bit.ly/6somMe #
Notes from the k*kkest book luanch evre http://book.co.za/LVpk #
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus: Carrots 6, Sticks 0 http://book.co.za/7GXd #
Opvolg oor die Jan Rabie en Marjorie Wallace-skrywersbeurs: André P Brink kap terug http://book.co.za/6LMR #
Jane Rosenthal’s Xmas Gift Book List http://book.co.za/Cw45 #
RT @michelle_matt @Cherryflava: Scientists FINALLY prove that the crap we eat is making people sick – http://tinyurl.com/yd8vxq3 #fructose #
@KathrynWhite_za ’sup, narky in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
Chenjerai Hove: Exiles Won’t Return Until Zimbabwe is Released from Grip of Fear http://book.co.za/mkaS #
Caroline Hurry Reviews The Essential Guide to South African Wines by Elmari Swart and Izak Smit http://book.co.za/5mVC #
Matthew Burbidge Reviews Grow to Live by Pat Featherstone http://book.co.za/Z0OV #
Pinky Khoabane Meets Lewis Nkosi and Calls for Kunene’s Poetry to Stay in SA http://book.co.za/xv87 #
@Imagine_This Nice work! Tres formidable http://twitpic.com/td9q5 in reply to Imagine_This #
Alt alt Sunday Read is “Newromancer”, short story by Toby Litt http://bit.ly/54478L #globalwarming #