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Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who unafraid of the sun. An honors in English at the same institution failed to curb this. An MA in South African Literature, only made it worse as it gave him even more hours to spend in front of a computer screen. He hopes to go viral one day.
This is interesting. It turns out that something as simple as whether or not your tweet has an exclamation mark in it can determine how many retweets it gets.At least that's according to research conducted by social media scientist Dan Zarella. The research, he says, was conducted in response to a tweeted question from search guru Rand Fishkin and looks at the relationship between exclamation points in tweets and retweets and clicks.Zarella used a dataset of more than two-million ...
The internet has been waiting for this moment for a long time. The first trailer for the new series of Arrested Development has surfaced online.When it was first announced that Netflix was resurrecting the acclaimed series, there was excitement, followed by understandable apprehension. Would it be as funny? Could the cast recapture their old chemistry and would Netflix allow the show's scriptwriters the kind of freedom they never had with the networks?If this trailer is anything to go by, ...
Kickstarter's founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler have taken to the company's blog to address controversy surrounding big-name projects on the platform such as the Veronica Mars project and Zach Braff's latest film.The massive amount of money made by the celebrity-led projects has generated some serious angst about who the crowdfunding platform is really for. Anyone who could conceivably get funding elsewhere, the doubters say, should not be on Kickstarter.The founders say the aim of the ...
We recently told you about a South African team's bid to make the fastest feature film in history. A week later, that film now has a name and a trailer.The team, comprising members of Johannesburg-based production houses Team Best, Localala and Ghost Sheep will attempt to beat the current record, held in India and go from script writing to screening in 11 days, 23 hours and 45 minutes.The restrictions of the project meant that it didn’t have a name ...
Google, Time Magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have teamed up to create a portal showing how much the planet has changed over the past 25 years.The interactive timelapse portal uses photos from NASA's Landsat programme collected over the past quarter of a century and highlights the impact humankind has had on places such as Dubai, the Amazon, Las Vegas and the Columbia Glacier.Each section serves up a little information on the area, with ...
LinkedIn has made another step toward being a serious player in the online media space with the revamping of its news section.The refreshed look on LinkedIn Today sees it take on more of a magazine feel and comes with the introduction of channels, which allow people to follow broader topic areas that cross multiple industries and professional sectors.The sectors covered by the new channels include Your Career, Economy, Social Impact, Big Ideas and Innovation, and Higher Education. Once you ...
TV whitespaces are playing an increasingly important role when it comes to providing broadband to emerging market countries. The latest project to use the technology sees Microsoft partner up with the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) and UhuruOne to provide wireless broadband access to university students and faculty in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.TV white spaces technology provides wireless broadband by tapping into unused portions of wireless spectrum in the frequency bands generally used for television. Although Africa ...
It's the kind of thing usually reserved for geek fantasies or bad fan fiction, but in the world portrayed by a new Audi ad Leonard Nimoy (classic Spock) and Zachary Quinto (Spock in the JJ Abrams Star Trek films) hang out and have a massive competitive streak.In the ad, Nimoy beats Quinto at chess who then challenges him to a round of golf, adding that whoever gets to the club first has to buy lunch. Quinto has an Audi ...
Today's Google doodle is one of the best we've seen in a while. It's a video celebration of graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass on what would have been his 93rd Birthday.Bass's 40 year career saw him work with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese and make some of film's most famous title sequences. Among those sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man ...
Apple has been out-Appled. The HTC One is a triumph of design and functionality and if you want your next phone to make you happy for a while yet, this is the one you should get. Scrap that, it's the phone everyone should get.It's funny that, at a phase when it's in financial dire straits, HTC has managed to cook up something so astonishing. The Taiwanese giant is supposed to be dead and buried, one of the more significant casualties ...
