The Language of 2025 South Africa’s social feeds in 2025 are buzzing with new words and digital inside jokes. Slang like delulu, rizz, and…
Reinventing the @NewsCycle #Eugene
The murder of South African white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche early on Saturday evening is arguably one of the biggest news events in South Africa…
How people use social networks: an anthropological view
I recently read an article on Scientific American about the relationship between loneliness and depression and people’s use of online social networks. The scientists…
Are we becoming Firefox icons?
A few weeks ago in a very bizarre dream, I was a beautifully customised icon on my Firefox browser, adorned in bright colors with…
Google Buzz: Just too much noise?
So we have another social/microblogging/lifestreaming service, called Google Buzz. It is, without doubt, Google’s boldest social play yet. Despite dominating pretty much all the…
