I do get tired of the frantic "trending" that occurs at the beginning and end of every year. Hence, I tend to sit back, take it all in and try give a summarised, more considered view a month or so later. Call it cutting through the clutter, if you wi...
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...
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 ...
Talk Radio 702 has managed, despite various plummets in listenership over the years, to remain Gauteng's premier talk radio station. But isn't it merely peddling the stupid and pedestrian views of the idle middle class back to itself, as a way to gen...
My God, is it just me or is this crushing, pervasive near-religious rugby fervour downright depressing?
I know, it's just me.
I don't get sport. I mean, I get why people play it. Out there on the field in the sun. Breathe in some fresh air, kic...
A group of American and Iraqi reporters has launched a blog, website and YouTube video channel called Alive in Baghdad that "formed to counter the sound-bite-driven, ‘live from’ news model".
The videos on YouTube, predictably, have inspi...
Does Facebook play a part in politics (governmental, not corporate :-)? Of course!
The Sunday Times in South Africa released a front page report yesterday on the South African Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Over and above the fact ...
Ars technica has reported that Google news will be accepting comments from users. This is sure to fire up the already-simmering relationship between the big online publishers and the search engine behemoth.
Online publishers have a love and hate rel...
