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Hilarious... and too true. See myself in this video. (Received via Facebook from a friend.)

The Democratic Alliance (DA), a local opposition party, has impressed with their new online strategy. Clearly inspired by Barack Obama's web innovation, the political party has launched two websites, although only just squeaking in two months before national elections kick off. The sites are: a social media-type campaigning site, "Contribute ...

One of the key viral elements of content websites, such as news sites, are the "email to a friend" links you see on many articles. Personally, I don't use these, but I know they're valuable: there's a type of user that religiously use these links as a way of sharing. ...

Synthasite, the site that creates sites, has just received $20-million more in funding. It's been the worst kept secret in the industry, but now it's official. The site is also about to undergo a name change to secure a much shorter, four-letter .com domain -- but this is yet to ...

The local Times launched their elections play today. It's pretty basic (although I'm lead to believe this is just phase I), but here's what I think is really clever and innovative about it:1. They've launched it on a completely new domain called "SA elections". That says, "we own election coverage", ...

It sounds crazy, but it's true.There's a famous philosophical phrase that goes along the lines of "The more I know, the more I realise I don't know". I first came across it in my Philosophy II class as a freshed-faced student at Rhodes University. It speaks to the realisation that ...

Just got a release from YFM, a Joburg radio station, that says its "the first radio station in Africa and among the first in the world" to release a custom application for the iPhone. (By "among first in the world" I presume they mean amongst radio stations.)This is due to ...

Here is a list of the top 100 sites from Alexa. Today, I count three traditional media sites (BBC, CNN and NY Times -- just squeaking in at number 100). The web of five years ago would have shown a different picture all together. It begs the question: Will there ...

Um, received this rather surreal press release yesterday. Not sure I would have sent this out as a piece of public relations, myself. It's likely that Google will respond, either with a polite phonecall or a legal letter. Or in all likelihood, they just won't care. Be interesting to see ...