media world

IBM Chairman Thomas Watson famously predicted in 1943: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." In the same decade the magazine Popular Mechanics also weighed in, predicting that "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Even Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicted ...

Richard Sambrook who is a new media head honcho at the BBC has long been somewhat of an expert in user generated content and citizien journalism in the media context. I often hear intelligent and succint quotes from him in the international media world. So I was happy to see ...

The media world is undergoing profound change. We know the great catalyst for these changes has been the onward march of the digital age and the arrival of the internet.This changing mediascape is often incorrectly portrayed as a battlefield, with two main skirmishes on the go. In the first “battle”, ...

Thanks to Bush Radio for alerting me to their cool blog project by their trainees. It's not quite opinion and comment, which is what we are used to getting on blogs -- but they are using the blog format to publish their written news stories. A blog can be anything you want it to ...

Ok play is over. Need to do some business here. Conference is tomorrow where I'll be chatting about online journalism vs traditional journalism.This is often how today's changing media world is portrayed:1. online journ VS print journ; online newspapers VS newspapers ; ...

Convergence got a bad rap from the troubled AOL Time Warner merger, but the phenomenon is making steady progress. Matthew Buckland looks at some of the local successes.Somewhat of a quiet revolution appears to be taking place in South Africa’s media world. Late last year News 24 launched their 24-hour ...

Somewhat of a quiet revolution appears to be taking place in South Africa’s media world. Late last year News24 launched their 24-hour interactive news channel 59 on DSTV. It’s not quite a TV channel and not quite a website. In fact it is something in between.What we are seeing here ...