WhatsApp has delayed the deadline for users to accept its new privacy policy and terms of service, following backlash. Previously, users had until 8…
Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?
Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…
Nitin Desai from UN wants a combined, killer new media and old media combination
Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, had a few original words to say on the new wave of “We Media” sweeping the globe. He says that the key challenge – and this is the original part of what he said – is that we face a challenge in finding a business model that can combine the professionalism of the traditional, established media (fact checking; sources; trained journalists; ethics codes and training etc etc) with what we have on the web – the power of collaborative communities, citizen journalism, blogs, collective intelligence, number power etc etc…
Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich?
net savvy Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich? Some say “Web 2.0” is just the latest meaningless buzzword in a long list of internet hyperbole….
What’s a Wiki?
net savvy What’s a Wiki? It means “quick” or “informal” in Hawaiian. Matthew Buckland explains the latest form of web-based “open content”, which has…
Mine’s bigger than yours, I think
It’s billed as the most measurable medium in the world, yet ironically, for a long time internet measurement in South Africa has been in…
