Google arrives on white horse to save news publishers

The latest news from Google indicates that the online search giant will now begin assisting news publishers by helping them preserve content and start charging for it. Google said that the current first click free model will change, and readers who access a search page of a news site, will only be able to view [...]

Large-scale debate gets Facebook group removed

A short while ago, News24’s community reporting arm, MyNews24 published an article by one of its users regarding a group formed on Facebook.
The article, written by your average civilian, expressed strong concern about the formation of an elitist white, Afrikaans group on the social networking site, and also relayed the need for South Africans to [...]

Get closer – create a story together

“Stories are the currency of life, particularly within families. Parents entertain and educate their kids through stories. And kids contextualise and imagine the world through narrative. It’s how our brains work. For us, the goal was to design a service that made storytelling effortless.” This is the short paragraph explaining why Storybird (http://storybird.com/) has chosen [...]

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.
For [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

NASA broadcasts moon blast online

Thanks to the power of technology, people around the world were watching a live feed on NASA’s website at 13:30 South African time today. The reason for the sudden interest in the US space agency? NASA planned to crash a rocket into a crater near the moon’s south pole to kick up debris that scientists will then [...]

Finding balance in the online space

It would be an understatement to say that the online space is here to stay. It is growing at blinding speeds, and those caught up in its whirlwind must be able to keep up or be left behind. Whereas authors and musicians suffered from the web ‘phenomenon’ in the past, it appears that they are [...]

Tips to stop procrastinating (from an editor)

If you’re like me, you often find yourself procrastinating, or jumping from task to task without getting anything done. In an attempt to fix this, I usually write a list of tasks to get done by a certain time frame – but my lists often become too complicated, that I end up with lists about [...]