Top 10 celebrity twitter feeds

TIME magazine has released a list of the top 10 celebrity twitter feeds.
These feeds are, in no particular order:
1. Britney Spears with 94 220 followers;
2. Snoop Dogg with 12 610 followers;
3. Dalai Lama: Currently with 234 followers (down from a peak of 20 000) – It took two days for His Holiness to garner more [...]

The Witness gets site upgrade

On 3 June, Ryan Calder from The Witness announced that a new-look Witness website, launched with help from the team at Bluebox.
The focus of the new site is now a graphic and picture-driven package to make news more accessible and more entertaining to read.
The classifieds page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.

What makes one death more newsworthy than another?

Friday’s papers were filled with the lengthy ‘breaking news’ articles of Michael Jackson’s death, while mentions of the passing of Farrah Fawcett were kept to a minimum.
I understand that Jackson was the bigger star, and certainly had a bigger influence on many lives, but what exactly determines the ‘newsworthiness’ of one death over another? [...]

Online platform boosts dialogue and exchange

News24’s community citizen journalism platform, MyNews24, is a local initiative that aims to bring ordinary people closer to journalism. The platform enables anyone to publish letters, opinion pieces, stories and photos or videos of an event. This is an attempt to bring journalism closer to those who previously didn’t have a chance to access this [...]

Has internet killed the video star?

With the increasing popularity of social media platforms such as YouTube, there has been a change in the way media is consumed. In the 1980s, MTV revolutionised the way the world saw music by popularising music videos, and being one of the few mediums making such content available. However, according to a story on The [...]

The etiquette of defriending

When social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, began their rise to popularity, users seemed to race to add as many friends as possible, in an indiscriminate manner, perhaps out of curiosity to find out what acquaintances were up to, or maybe just to be seen as popular online. In this way, the [...]

Is social networking communication limited to the communications department?

Cellular News reports that a new study says top CEOs should do a better job at managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter; LinkedIn; Facebook; and Wikipedia.
This is based on Fortune`s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs – Sharon Barclay of the UberCEO blog conducted research over several weeks and found a [...]

Milky moments online

Steri Stumpie is a big favourite in our household, so I was pleased to find that it has launched a blog! Atmosphere Communications is running a social media campaign for the flavoured milk brand, including a blog; handling communications with ‘online noise makers’ (love this phrase!); and a tongue-in-cheek search to find an “Official Unofficial [...]

How your Facebook connections are connected

WebAddict’s latest blogpost caught my interest. Titled ‘Show me your Facebook Social Graph’, it explains how the Facebook Application Social Graph clearly demonstrates how your facebook friends are connected with each other.
The graph shows clusters that can be zoomed into for a closer view. There are also nodes that can be highlighted, to show [...]

Tweet your say in full

ReadWriteStart, the Microsoft BizSpark-sponsored ReadWriteWeb channel dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs, has blogged about a new application for folk who simply can’t say it all in a 140-character post. If you need more space to get it all off your chest, you’re sure to love Write4Net, which automatically links to your Twitter account and [...]