Archive for the 'New media' Category

Last Thursday, 28 May 2008, according to the Mail &Guardian Online, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said that the corporation viewed the news site’s posting of the uncut version of the so-called Zapiro show on its website as “unprofessional” and that the posting had undermined the public broadcaster. Today, Chris Moerdyk poses the question SABC vs [...]

Tonight, Thursday, 13 November 2008, is the very first Bookmarks, an award engineered to benchmark the best in creative digital media in South Africa, launched by the Online Publishers Association, SA’s independent representative body for online publishers, in association with Lowe Bull.
Bizcommunity.com’s very own founding director, André Rademan, has been nominated in the category [...]

The first Wordcamp South Africa was successful held this past Saturday, 23 August 2008, in Cape Town, with Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of blogging software platform Wordpress, as guest speaker.
For coverage, go to: http://www.zoopy.com/wordcamp08, http://afrigator.com/search/blogs/wordcamp, http://www.muti.co.za/hot?tags=wordcamp and http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wordcampsa.

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Having set benchmarks in online publishing and web development and innovation in South Africa in the last few years, making the local blogosphere and social networking in South Africa a very exciting place to be, sources confirm that GM Matthew Buckland and strategist Vincent Maher are both leaving the Mail & Guardian Online, the former [...]

Are you digitally relevant? Or do you feel as obsolete as your video machine? Does your six-year-old help you work your DVD machine and do you give your latest cellphone upgrade to your kids, preferring to hang onto your old brick as at least you still know how to make calls on that one? Are [...]

The new public Mail & Guardian Online test site has just gone live! And only 26 minutes after deadline, according to strategist Vincent Maher on twitter. Bizcommunity.com got the scoop this morning on some of the new features: Exclusive sneak preview of M&G Online
Well done, team M&G! We know what a mammoth job it is!
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Whether you call it multimedia or massively multiple media, Nic Haralambous of SA Rocks was at yesterday’s Million Man March against crime. While he reports that there weren’t even close to a million marchers, “there were over 15 countries with media representation at the march and broadcasting in one way or another. That is good [...]