Twitter: a tool for tracking criminals, or to stretch the truth?

News24 reported that the web was literally ‘atwitter’ this week when TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com) discovered that a serial killer, known as dinner_guest, was tweeting about his murderous activities on Twitter. Speculation was rife as to whether the killer was for real; whether the tweets were part of a marketing campaign; or whether it was some type [...]

A glimpse at some of the world’s media records

I recently saw that Strictly Come Dancing made it on the most-watched reality-television show globally and drew in millions of viewers, making it a global world record, according to the Guiness World Records. This intrigued me into carrying out a quick search of other interesting media facts and records that we could have simply overseen.
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Recycling old media hardware – good for the environment, good for you

The Cape City Green Week and the recently held Brands and Branding for Good Conference are examples of the fact that ‘green awareness’ is spreading to beyond merely forming part of corporate CSI, to becoming wiser about the issues of green computing and green IT in a media sense.
Green computing can be broken down into green [...]

Newsclip expands on social media

This morning, Newsclip hosted the final leg of it’s quarterly seminars at the Bryanston Country Club. Amy Linnell of the Marketing Strategy department gave attendees insight into how to engage with the social media space properly. The key lies in both the quality and quantity of your efforts – one needs to be actively involved from [...]

Are today’s mobile phones too complicated?

As we are constantly bombarded with news of the latest mobile phone or smartphone offering even more amazing features from GPS navigation to social networking to enhance our lives and make them easier, Martin Cooper, credited as being the lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the mobile phone, has said that today’s phones [...]

Virtual living offers escapism – but where to?

The shift to online has not only meant efficiency and faster communication, but an array of options that seem to have begun to offer online users the option to withdraw from their realities and escape into an online world. Newsclip’s Analysis team thinks that we might be on the verge of losing the human touch. [...]

Virtual worlds set to enter reality?

In an article titled ‘Virtual cities get real bustle’, New Scientist magazine of 3 October 2009 states that: “While virtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird’s-eye views of urban landscapes, they show ghost towns – empty streets free of traffic or people. Now, a system that can draw on real-time [...]