If Facebook is revealing about individuals, it is no less so about countries. South Africa may have startled the world with the number of its people engaged in social networking, but now it can offer as much of a surprise about the quality of our bro...
The world of social media and social networking likes nothing better than an underdog. No, not to rise to its defence, but to gang up against it.
One of the most successful special interest groups on Facebook is called "I Dont care How Comfortable...
Last week I had the good fortune to be on the same kulula.com flight as the last five contestants in the Idols 2007 season.
I wouldn't say it was good fortune to hear them sing Happy Birthday over the intercom to one of the cabin attendants, even...
If we want to understand how communications could change in the next 15 years, we must look back over the same period -- to a time before the cellphone and the internet. Only then can we appreciate and prepare for the potential revolution that still ...
Scientists have found a 60 000-year-old neck bone that suggests Neanderthals were anatomically able to produce the speech sounds modern humans make … That implies that voice-production machinery has changed little over the past 60 000 years. ...
Meet Charl Norman. At first sight, he doesn’t look dangerous. You might even encounter him at business or social events, exchange business cards and not even think of contacting the authorities. “Hmm, nice logo, you might say,” as I did, and th...
Microsoft’s quarter-billion dollar investment in Facebook is a litmus test for the maturity of the social media and social networking world called Web 2.0.
While it was fun for some (like Thought Leader colleague Ivo Vegter) to join a group of F...
France and New Zealand may be out of the Rugby World Cup, but they have come up with a desperate new attempt to prove they remain a force on the international stage.
In just three weeks, France has doubled the size of its regional network on Faceb...
The first blogger I knew didn’t call himself a blogger, because the word hadn’t yet been invented. Once, in the dawn of internet time, Roy Blumenthal was at the helm of “a hare-brained art prank” called Dirty Laundry, in which he created a we...
An analysis of the names on the lips of the chattering elite who inhabit Web 2.0, or at least the world of blogs, Facebook and user-generated content, shows that it is really a one-horse race: Jacob Zuma versus not Jacob Zuma.
Tokyo Sexwale and Cy...
Arthur Goldstuck is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on information and communications technology (ICT), internet and mobile communications and technologies. Goldstuck heads the World Wide Worx research organisation, and has led research into ICT issues such as the effects of IT on small business, the role of mobile technologies in business and government, and the technology challenges of the financial services sector. He regularly provides strategic insights and guidance on trends at conferences and corporate events across Africa.
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Legends From a Small Country Revisiting and updating the urban legends that have appeared in Arthur Goldstuck's various books, and monitoring new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global.
Little Blog Little Blog is a 5-year old human being who exhibits all the characteristics of a blog. Very often, her worldview suggests a far more interesting world than that experienced by her Official Adults.
The Big Change The Big Change is a business strategy blog and newsletter published by Arthur Goldstuck.
