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[Updating] In tweets: Irma, Jose and Katia now all Atlantic hurricanes

We just saw the last of Hurricane Harvey, a storm that broke US mainland rainfall records, finally dissipate over the northeastern portion of the…

This video shows how quickly Hurricane Harvey became a monster

Hurricane Harvey is a name you’ve probably heard a lot of this weekend, and for good reason. It’s the strongest storm to make landfall…

Solar Eclipse 2017: America’s doggos prepare on Instagram

In a few minutes, the Earth’s Moon will begin its rude obstruction of the Sun, covering much of the central United States in darkness…

Nelson Mandela helps Barack Obama to the most liked tweet in history

Former US President Barack Obama’s recent response to Charlottesville has become the most-liked tweet in history, Twitter today announced. Quoting former South African President…

Trump retweets someone calling him a ‘fascist’, deletes almost immediately

US President Donald Trump allegedly retweeted a tweet deeming him a “fascist” before deleting it swiftly from his account. Twitter user Mike Holden was…

Charlottesville: Twitter slams Trump’s response, lauds Obama and Clinton’s

It has been a landmark weekend for the United States. On Saturday at a “Unite the White” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a car ploughed…

Prisoners use peanut butter to escape Alabama slammer

All the great prison breaks of history and popular culture involved some degree of cunning and invention. But peanut butter? CNN this week reported…

Mobile publishing: A glimpse of the future with Asahi Shimbun

I always look forward to the presentations by our Japanese media colleagues about their mobile phone strategies. They are the undisputed world leaders in…

New Google head for South Africa

South Africa has a new Google boss. Stafford Masie, the former head of Novell South Africa and a relative unknown outside IT circles, has…

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…

Google joins fray to fight global internet censorship

Via an AP story on Wired.com Google, which hasn’t in the past got too involved in government affairs and advocacy issues, is now joining…

South Africa’s Exploding Internet

Received a press release from Nielsen//Netratings, who run the statistics and compiles readership of the major websites in the local Online Publisher’s Association. Whichever…

Online news will supplant TV as leading source

According to a World Association of Newspapers poll online news will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five…

Integrating the online & print news operations

I’ve never liked the word convergence. Integration is much better. Some great speakers spoke on this topic from the New York Times, Sydney Morning…

WAN LINKS: Media profitability, online content quality & media freedom

The 3 keys to media profitability in the 21st century A US executive says three words have led his newspaper company to success That…

War of the web

As United States and British forces push through Iraq towards Baghdad, another kind of war is in progress: a battle between TV, radio, newspapers and websites to be the first to bring their audience breaking news on Iraq.

Why SA’s Online Journalism is Rubbish

When will online journalism make a real impact in this country? Matthew Buckland says that until online starts to publish more original stories, it’s…

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