Ok, it didn't actually save my life but I definitely felt something change this weekend. I was sitting at home in quiet, decidedly suburban Durbanville when I heard a tremendous bang and the front door shook like it had just been hit by something ve...
In a multi-platform world where the news waits for no man or network, traditional media would do well to heed the call of the Beowulf that would consume them.
When long time host of NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Tim Russert, collapsed and die...
The famous Australian based web community site Sitepoint, originally founded in a roundabout way in 1997, launched its "new look" front page this week. A pretty mixed response it has received, and as I often tend to do, I'll try to remain as unbiased...
Everyone knows that it’s about who you know and not what you know.. Being someone who is heavily involved in the online market, I’m continually dropping tweets, answering friend requests and plugging away at my keyboard on myriad instant messagin...
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...
A big chunk of the Internet is free. A very big chunk. But what if it wasn't? What if you had to pay for the services you consume (over and above what you pay for bandwidth)?
Let's ignore, for now, the slightly obtrusive fact that the Internet ...
The first thing I learnt -- and admittedly it took a fair number of months -- was that I should not have given up my day job. Alright, I didn’t give up the day job as I didn’t have one to start off with. But still. I would have starved if I had d...
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 has invested $240-million in Facebook, resulting in a $15-billion evaluation for the social network. I fear that this might be the beginning of the end of the Facebook mania.
Personally, I would have preferred to see an investment by Goo...
