South Africa has crossed one of its biggest economic milestones of the decade, officially surpassing pre pandemic international arrival numbers and positioning itself for…
Don’t like Facebook? Build your own social network
Social networking has become a huge phenomenon, with a couple of big players dominating the market. Yet if one looks around the web you’ll…
Activism or slacktivism: Is the web making it too easy?
When Sipho Hlongwane (@comradesipho), a writer and political and social commentator, proudly accepted the ANC Youth League’s disparaging moniker of “Desktop Activist” in March…
Facebook showing real potential as a search engine
With the recent improvements to Facebook’s analytics via the new Insights Dashboard, I did a bit of research into the current search volume on Facebook…
Getting from the vital few to the viral many: Social media hype or hope?
Why are some people conservative and some liberal? Is there a connection between political perspective and intelligence, as new ‘evidence’ seems to suggest? And…
