The South African Weather Service on Friday warned that citizens should expect another afternoon of stormy weather across the country. The service on Twitter…
The golden rules of blogging, according to…
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…
Citizen Journalism and the M&G Online
Vinnie beat me to blogging this post (just what does he do all day???). So I’m going to link to his blog about it….
Why can’t we all just get along?
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”, the soldiers have grown weary or just rather bored. This battle involves traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) versus online media. The second “battle” is a much more interesting to look at. This skirmish involves mainstream media (which in this instance includes online publishers as they mostly practise traditional journalism) versus citizen media, which includes bloggers, vloggers and podcasters….
50m bloggers, 6bn people — but who gets to speak?
Ethan Zuckerman, the founder of Tripod and activist site Global Voices Online, emphasised just how difficult it is to get news about Africa, especially…
