Canada

Twitter to delete 1.5 billion accounts here’s why

Twitter will soon start freeing the namespace of over 1.5 billion accounts due to inactivity. Twitter head Elon Musk said the accounts were spotted…

Canadian town takes up the ‘Cape Town Challenge’ to reduce water usage

A small town in Canada is taking up the “Cape Town Challenge” inspired by the latter’s recent struggle with water. According to a report…

Update: the Boeing 737 MAX 8 is now effectively grounded worldwide

Update, 13 March 10pm: The FAA on Wednesday “ordered the temporary grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft” — that’s the 737 MAX 8 and…

Canadian college offers new qualification in growing cannabis

You can soon leave college in Canada with a qualification in growing cannabis. Yes Elon, weed. Ontario’s Niagara College, CBC reports, recently debuted its…

Uber-rival Lyft goes international, expands to Toronto

For the first time in its history, on-demand ride-hailing company Lyft will expand to a city beyond the United States. On Monday the firm…

Cape Town, think your water is bad? Onoway, Canada wants a word

Cape Town’s suffering from a bit of a water crisis at present. With less than 32% capacity remaining in our dams, the city has…

Canada says no to Bitcoin as legal tender

If you’re planning a trip to Canada any time in the near future, don’t expect your Bitcoin to be treated as legal tender. The…

Looks like Lenovo really did want to buy BlackBerry

Looking back at BlackBerry’s rapid descent into ignominy, there are plenty of could have beens. The biggest of all them all — interest in…

Lenovo’s RIM acquisition not on the cards

Last week, a Bloomberg report suggested that Chinese electronics giant Lenovo was interested in acquiring struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM). Apparently that…

BlackBerry sued over global service failure

In the latest twist of the tale of BlackBerry’s woes, the smartphone’s maker Research In Motion (RIM), is now being sued in Canada and…

Look mom, I’m rioting on YouTube

It’s June 16th 2011 and the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team loses Game seven of the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins. A…

Social media governments: Iceland, Nigeria, Rwanda & South Africa

An increasingly crucial part of our daily lives, social media is changing the way we interact, work and live. As a truly people-oriented medium,…

Guess who owns facebook.co.za? Not Facebook.

It looks like Facebook doesn’t own facebook.co.za, its South African domain? I’m surmising this from the fact that: 1. it appears from the co.za…

Citizen journalism, let's keep our heads shall we?

Did this interview with Herman Manson of Media Toolbox a popular media newsletter. Here are the questions:

To what extent is the M&G planning to make use of citizen/participatory journalism?
What are people writing about on your blogging service and how does this influence the content of your website and the paper edition?
Do you think participatory journalism will grow beyond community newspapers (for which it does seem perfect) to national news organisations locally? Internationally the BBC recently announced a move to integrate more citizen generated content into its services.

My answers over the page

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