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...
It’s taken me more than a little while to get round to breaking the seal on this blog. For openers, I'm taking the easy way out and plumping for a rant about two South African business sectors whose digital incarnations leave a lot to be desired.
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One of the primary goals of any serious journalist is to take whatever they are writing about, and cover it in plain, simple English so that anyone, regardless of prior knowledge, can understand the story. Journalists are, after all, communicators, a...
I'm grateful for search engines, but I still find it hard to accept living with Dead Text. Letters and figures on a screen. Not able to be mined, found, unlocked, extrapolated into meaning. What irks me in particular is tables of figures, especially ...
In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html)
This is a less-confusing name for what is also called 'free software'. It...
Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig’s imminent retirement opens up one of the most sought after executive positions in the country. Speculation suggests that Vodafone wants to appoint a new CEO as a matter of urgency, fuelling the debate as to who will t...
In article one and two I made the case for identity-management (IdM) and how an IdM solution can address the everyday problems experienced in organisations. In this article I'm bringing things back to reality and I'll be highlighting the aspects that...
Mr Stupi Tidiot is hell bent on boosting his page views and unique visits to his site. See, he's got Google Ads plastered all over the show and depends on it. He writes a bunch of crap, but he sure as hell don't care as long as he gets them visitors,...
One of the sections in my recently updated free social media primer highlights some questions that I think need answering before diving head first into the social media landscape. There’s probably many more questions that I could add to this list. ...
Many people involved in the South African (and global) social media industry will agree that, if anything, these past few years have taught us a lot about web-based content and copywriting, online communities and networks, and marketing and communica...
