MTN South Africa has once again emerged as the country’s top-performing mobile network, securing the highest score in the Q2 2025 MyBroadband Network Quality…
One-on-one with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
UPDATED: Here are some excerpts of an interview I did with Jimmy on Thursday afternoon. I posed questions from myself and relayed some questions…
'Beware the power of social media'
This popped into my inbox this afternoon. I know Jovan Regasek well and have big respect for the man, ITWeb and the other publications…
Blogs mark the first 10 years
Interesting article spotted in the Guardian. “After a quiet start they revolutionised the web; now one is born every second. The first entry on…
Linklove: what big media can learn from bloggers
The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere….
Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet. It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking from their websites to the “outside”, especially when there’s a competitor involved. It’s a protective, “walled garden” mentality, prevalent in many traditional media businesses, which doesn’t translate particularly well on the wild world wide web. It’s pretty silly, because linking is the whole point of the web.
This where the blogosphere could teach online publishers a thing or two…. read on
