Showmax has debuted a first-look teaser for its upcoming telenovela, The Wife, scheduled to debut on the streaming service next month. The show is…
Netflix has announced price increases for some of its streaming plans in South Africa. The company says that these are the first changes to…
Ookla has published its performance report for Q3 2021, revealing the mobile operator with the fastest internet speed in South Africa. The report uses…
Lagos-based and founded automotive tech startup Autochek has expanded its operations and launched in Kenya. The expansion forms part of the tech startups’ pan-African…
Lagos-based e-Commerce tech startup Sendbox has raised $1.8-million in a seed round of funding from 4DX Ventures, Enza Capital, FJLabs and Golden Palm Investments. With participation from Flexport and YC Combinator. Sendbox secures $1.8-million…
South African student accommodation marketplace DigsConnect has partnered with global site Student.com to expand its presence globally. The partnership will let the local startup…
Nintendo has announced its last free update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well as a new paid expansion pack called Happy Home Paradise. The…
The premium HUAWEI Watch 3 series has launched in South Africa, bringing a host of advanced smartwatch features to local consumers. But if you’re…
Samsung has announced that its AirDresser, a smart wardrobe that freshens and sanitises your clothes, is now available in South Africa. According to the…
The Renault Sandero was a great local success. It proved excellently-suited to local driving conditions with the mix of potholed roads and gravel. Replacing…
South Africa is a strong-demand market for high-performance SUVs. With many venues having at least 10% journey with gravel roads or driveways, it makes…
The South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced the winners of the 2021 Car of the Year awards. The winners were announced…
I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google,…
It’s been easy for some to dismiss the blogosphere as a fringe publishing phenomenon. Publishers, who have had a monopoly on mainstream publishing since…
The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere….
Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet. It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking from their websites to the “outside”, especially when there’s a competitor involved. It’s a protective, “walled garden” mentality, prevalent in many traditional media businesses, which doesn’t translate particularly well on the wild world wide web. It’s pretty silly, because linking is the whole point of the web.
This where the blogosphere could teach online publishers a thing or two…. read on
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