Advertising and Media

Traditional SEO copy: is it still feasible?

“For those of us who aspire to be original, predictability can be the worst kind of banality.” – James Spader, as Alan Shore, in…

A view-through focus could stop the anti-banner ad freakout: here’s how

There’s been a lot of bad blood about display ads flowing through the marketing industry of late. Some are misguidedly dismissing display advertising’s relevance…

Twitter inks deal with ad giant WPP

Twitter has just signed a deal with global advertising giant WPP, which will apparently see the two collaborating more closely in future. The deal…

PR’s digital makeover means it’s more crucial than ever

For a while now PR has moved steadily towards securing a seat on the board. The fact that reputational damage is a huge business…

Beyond wearables: brands could capitalise on the Internet of Things

“The Internet of Things” as a term dates as far back as 1999, but it is only recently that we have started to see…

Plant real (and virtual) trees with BOS’s new augmented reality app

Yep, the innovative organic iced tea company is at it again. This time, it’s not a tweeting vending machine: BOS is allowing its customers…

Thought Leader named in international Webby Awards

Well, well, well, it seems to be the month of awards. The news came in lastnight that our very own political blog, Thought Leader,…

Another SA online ranking site launched

A newly formed website umbrella body, Website Association of South Africa (WASA), has launched a brand-new web metrics and rankings system for the country….

Redesigning & rebuilding the Mail & Guardian Online

Redesigning the M&G Online, the country’s oldest news website. Pics below of the first meeting with myself, Vincent Maher (Strategist), Riaan Wolmarans (Editor) and…

The local web: The year that was 2007

It’s been a cool year for the Web in South Africa. Year of the blog? We saw the arrival of two blog aggregators Afrigator…

Blogger covers another side of ANC Polokwane conference

Of all the news reports I’ve read on the African National Congress (ANC) Polokwane conference so far, the live coverage from our blogger Ndumiso…

SecondLife, another graphic World Wide Web?

At the beginning of this year I blogged about the amazing work that Adam Pasick was doing with Reuters in Second Life, the virtual…

Social Networking is Online Publishing 2.0

I’ve recently changed my mind about some of the smaller niche, trade, business-to-business websites that are on the online scene. These are often trade…

German blogosphere waning, bloggers quitting, says Ifra blog

I’ll be heading off to Dublin, Ireland around the beginning of November to speak at IFRA’s Beyond the Printed Word, the world’s leading association…

The converging media company

Who would have thought newspapers and magazines would start producing their own radio and TV programmes? Who would have thought radio stations would become…

Convergence heralds the age of the reader

This was the presentation that never was at Highway Africa. My session got turned into a panel discussion because it was to be broadcast…

Business of online media and blogosphere

At the Digital Citizen’s Indaba, I presented on the business issues of online media and the blogosphere, from my own experiences as a blogger…

First picture of local blogosphere emerges

The country’s leading internet analyst, Arthur Goldstuck of World Wide Worx, has published some interesting statistics on the local blogosphere. If you haven’t seen…

South African journalists take to blogs

Chaos broke out on the South African blogosphere recently, and it was all caused by a journalist. Columnist David Bullard devoted not one, but…

South Africa's web traffic not that bad if you consider…

Here is a thought and it starts like this: So what if internet penetration is below or around the 10% mark in this country….

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