South Africa does not need the biggest computers in the world to compete globally. It needs smarter ways to use the computing power it…
4 reasons Twitter could one day be bigger than Facebook
Nick Bilton from the New York Times wrote a cogent piece on why he believes Facebook is more popular than Twitter. He believes that…
9 ways Twitter is good for democracy
We all know tweeting isn’t the same as voting and that most people on Twitter are observers rather than participants. I’ve long believed, however,…
The genie is out of the bottle, and he’s tweeting now
Six weeks ago I wrote a piece for one of South Africa’s Sunday papers, the Sunday Times, on the role that Twitter plays in…
Twitter community rallies to stop tweeted suicide attempt [Updated]
A Twitter community in South Africa rallied to prevent a potential suicide this weekend, as a Durban-based mother of two dramatically tweeted an attempt…
