In the run-up to the US presidential election, Twitter has announced and incorporated a range of temporary features and changes. The company made the…
High IQ equals low piracy rate, study finds, but SA bucks trend
A new study has found “strong support” that a high national IQ often results in low piracy rates. The study, titled ‘Intelligence and Crime:…
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…
Netocracy
If Karl Marx were alive today this is the book he would have written. This is the bold, if not slightly ambitious, claim of…
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….
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…
