bloggers

This is very cool. The city of Cape Town is currently hosting four international travel bloggers and their itineraries are being guided by Twitter.The initiative, which is the brainchild of Cape Town tourism, invited people to participate in the campaign by sharing tips for the bloggers' itineraries using the ...

One of the defining features of online writing, apart from the ability to include links, is the comments facility. Publishing an entry is only half of any blog; the rest evolves as comments are added and commenters argue amongst themselves.Reader response can be a source of invigorating debate, or it ...

Social media is touted by many as a way to get around the gatekeepers of media, the traditional old order of mass media setting the agenda for society has been tipped onto its head.Not really.A study from Yahoo! Research "Who Says What to Whom on Twitter | Yahoo! Research" found ...

Zimbabwe is a new addition to the list of countries where governments are arresting users of popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Bloggers and social media users in Egypt, Syria, China and Libya have faced arrest for statements seen as a threat to the ruling governments.Beware of ...

A Vietnamese blogger has been detained for "infringing on the interests of the state" after she criticised a security official and his family, reports said Tuesday.News of the arrest of Le Nguyen Huong Tra, 35, who blogged as Co Gai Do Long, came days after US Secretary of State Hillary ...

In June, blogging platform Posterous launched an all-out assault on other services, hoping to convince bloggers from WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr to switch over. At the time, the move was considered by some to be overly aggressive, even “preposterous,” but the move appears to be paying off.Rich Pearson, VP of ...

For some this may be a bit of a DOH!, but I'd thought share with you some little personal lessons learnt in the two years I've been blogging.The rules...GOLDEN RULE 1: THE HONESTY POLICY It sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised. Be honest, direct, transparent. Do not try and bullshit ...

This popped into my inbox this afternoon. I know Jovan Regasek well and have big respect for the man, ITWeb and the other publications his company puts out. For those of you wondering, ITWeb survived full on through the dot.bomb crash and was one of the few online publications that ...

Interesting article spotted in the Guardian."After a quiet start they revolutionised the web; now one is born every second. The first entry on Scripting News effectively ushered in the first blog 10 years ago. In the intervening years these online diaries have been touted as the future of media, labelled ...

I'm a gadget freak. Need the latest with most buttons. Gotta have Gotta have... you know how it is. It's an expensive little vice I have, so it means I got a great phone in my pocket, but my T-shirt and shoes have holes in them. I was doing a ...