For those of you who don't know, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and receive other users' updates, known as tweets. Tweets can be seen as text messages which move between users' computers r...
I found this interesting -- yet another example of social media being considered a viable facet of a marketing strategy.
Lenovo has sponsored this portal for athlete bloggers at the Olympics.
The site is well designed. Lots of bloggers wri...
I was in the hotel lobby waiting for my room to be ready and madly typing on my computer when a wide-eyed woman peeped around the corner, looked expectantly at me and smiled. I smiled back, and the penny dropped when I overheard her talking about her...
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to take part in a writing project, organised by Darren Gorton. His plan was to bring 13 of South Africa's most passionate bloggers together and have them each contribute a chapter to an online book / series. The t...
Of all the great things the age of social media has ushered in, let’s not be blinded to the emergence of the age old affliction which has plagued humanity ever since Kane took out Abel…Hate.
Hate speech was there ever since people could spea...
The South African blogging numbers for 2007 and the beginning of 2008 are in, and they tell a story almost as eloquent as do some of the blogs.
Just six months ago, blogging was the next big internet fad in South Africa. Seemingly from nowhere, in...
The "debate" about this year's SA Blog Awards has gone from irrational to hilarious to just plain stupid. Fuelled by a tiny community of self-proclaimed experts who doubtlessly feel left out of the action, the war of words has labelled the awards as ...
I've been pondering, recently, the rise of narcissism as a disease of our world. Depression used to be the problem, everyone swallowing handfuls of Prozac and eating chocolate cake in their pyjamas. Now, I believe, fuelled by our inherent egomania an...
Before we launched Thought Leader, its management team got together to discuss the invitation process. All three of us would have been classified as "white" by the National Party government and, indeed, we have benefited from the fact our parents we...
I’ve been terrified of naming these two guys as Bloggers of the Week. When the concept for this blog was first proposed, the biggest criticism was that it would simply line up the usual suspects of the Web 2.0 world, such as Justin Hartman and Mike...
