Online media

Koos Bekker predicts print media will be dead within 20 years

Former Naspers CEO Koos Bekker predicts that print media will be extinct within the next 20 years. Speaking in a video interview at the…

Want to start a digital magazine? Here are 9 of the best publishing options

So you did it — you wandered into the Newsstand section and fell face-first into the glorious world of digital magazines. Oh, how beautiful!…

Memeburn presents: the ultimate guide to promoting your content online

With the release of Google’s Hummingbird came a great change in the world of SEO. Although many digital agents consider that the changes were…

What lessons could the New York Times learn from Naspers?

LinkedIn Influencer Michael Moritz published this post originally on LinkedIn. Follow Michael Moritz on LinkedIn here. What happens when your business is threatened with…

Jawbone founder: the web hasn’t really empowered average people the way it promised to

Opinions are everywhere, pretty much everyone in the world has them. These opinions have a right to be aired irrespective of who you are,…

Could remnant ad sales kill online publishers?

Every week I’ll get an email from a random agency telling me they absolutely love my site and they’d like to advertise on it….

Discover Digital VoD service acquires sports content, looks to make internet TV big in SA

Discover Digital is a digital entertainment business planning to launch an alternative Video-on-Demand (VoD) TV service in South Africa later this year. This recent…

Online music sales beat CDs for the first time in 2011, says Nielsen

Spend enough time on the internet and you would be forgiven to think that physical music sales died a long time ago. In the…

Whistleblowing, transparency and the future of journalism: Q&A with Ira Stoll

Ira Stoll is a man with a pretty unique idea — putting media credibility into the hands of the online public. His weapon of…

9 web series worth watching

The internet is practically heaving with top-quality “webisodes”. As such, selecting the best from a seemingly infinite bunch could be something of a Herculean…

Facebook’s 40 most shared articles of 2011

What do the Japanese tsunami, zodiac signs and a giant crocodile have in common? No, they’re not the subject of a bad bar joke….

Five tips for reporting with Twitter

Real-time communication over the web through Twitter has had an enormous impact on journalism. Twitter is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for reporting. It…

Internet innovation failing in Africa, Europe, and here’s why: Koos Bekker

Where are the world’s next internet entrepreneurs and innovators going to come from? This question was posed by Koos Bekker of Naspers, a global…

On aggregating and rewriting: It’s all a steal!

Gabe Rivera, founder of the excellent TechMeme is irked that the term “aggregator” is being misapplied especially within the context of the HuffPost event…

A much needed (Song)kick to online concert bookings

South Africans may have noticed the influx of international acts venturing tours to their fair shores. Until now, we have generally had a poor…

Google News: Four-billion monthly clicks, and counting [Q&A]

It’s not easy to run an online content business in an age where everyone is a publisher. Everyone is doing it and there’s never…

The other WikiLeaks: 8 whistleblowing sites you probably don’t know about

Last year a website called WikiLeaks and a man called Julian Assange made the world’s most powerful governments quiver in fear. No army or…

Daily Maverick reveals ‘iPad-only’ daily newspaper

The proposed iMaverick iPad app. Looks very much like a magazine. For the past week, readers of South African upstart news and analysis site,…

Media piracy: You’re not as anonymous as you might think

Enforcing statutory penalties on intellectual property infringements in the media industry is moving up a notch. In the US, a federal judge recently agreed…

More on Techcrunch editor’s ‘conflict of interest’ disclosure

There is a widespread perception within the Silicon Valley community, that when it comes to the media, as long as everything is disclosed about…

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