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Cape Town’s drought makes international news on CNN and Facebook

If you live in Cape Town, chances are you forgot what rain actually is. With the city still battling one of the worst droughts…

CNN’s Facebook accounts briefly breached by OurMine

CNN’s Facebook accounts were briefly compromised this weekend by hacking collective OurMine, Mashable reports. The group, now infamous for gaining access to accounts to…

CNN faces trolls after ‘unnerving’ ISIS flag coverage turns out to be just dildos

This weekend was a rather colourful one: from Facebook profiles to Uber car requests overlaid with rainbow colours. But it was on the streets…

CNN pre-recorded this marching band in case of the apocalypse [video]

According to a former CNN intern, the American news corporation’s archives contain a pre-recorded Doomsday video, with the status “HFR [Hold For Release] till…

How the web looked the day Nelson Mandela died: 55+ top sites transformed

The world is in mourning following the death of Nelson Mandela. The former South African president and renowned statesman passed away in his Johannesburg…

CNN to buy Mashable for $200-million [Rumour]

Rumour has it that international news giant CNN is in possible talks to buy popular tech news site Mashable for upwards of US$200-million. The…

‘IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers’ story revealed to be a hoax

The BBC is reporting that a story which claimed that Internet Explorer users have a lower average IQ than users of other browsers is…

The hope and horror of Oslo as told on YouTube and Twitter

There was little the rest of the world could do but sit back and watch in shock as the events in Oslo unfolded on…

Mobile web content in East Africa [Report]

Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this…

‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented,’ says Assange

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit…

Piers Morgan vs Rio Ferdinand: The Twitter catfight

The media loves Twitter. The media loves celebrities. The media really loves celebrities feuding. The media really, really, loves a feuding celebrity being told…

Could that really be your next tweet?

Twitter has become a great resource in today’s journalistic landscape. In fact Twitter is a great resource in general. However at its basic core,…

Google’s Schmidt to get $100-million, possible TV talk show

Google’s outgoing chief executive Eric Schmidt, who is set to step down in April for co-founder Larry Page, is set to receive US$100-million in…

CNN launches iPad app

CNN has launched their new iPad app which the broadcaster says is designed to provide users with an “immersive and visual news experience” that…

Twitter and its impact on journalism

Nic Dawes is the editor of the Mail & Guardian, one of South Africa’s most respected newspapers. Memeburn sat down with him to discuss…

CNN launches iPhone news app for international audiences

Following the launch of CNN’s app for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the United States last year, the news giant has announced the availability…

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,…

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…

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…

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