SA media loves Malema

Wikipedia defines Julius Malema as follows: “Julius Sello Malema… is a South African politician, and the president of the African National Congress Youth League. He is best known for his controversial statements and speeches, and vociferous support for African National Congress president Jacob Zuma.”
Controversial statements, indeed. Hardly a day goes by that Julius is not in [...]

Obama communicates with Africans on MXit

MXit has once again broken barriers by giving its users the opportunity to send in questions that they would like to pose to US president, Barack Obama, according to an article on itweb. The South African social networking service collated and delivered the questions to Obama via the US embassy, during his first African trip [...]

Warning: curate the news you source online!

Today’s Business Day featured an article by Anton Harber, the Caxton Professor of Journalism at Wits University. Titled ‘The story of citizen journalism, as it unfolds’, it provides a word of caution and emphasises the need to curate (love this term!) all news you access from websites and social media sources, such as Twitter; Facebook; [...]

Oh, the online search blunders we make!

Inspired by the fact that South Africa is a new swine flu hot spot, I decided to look up the ‘hot topic’ out of personal interest, and stumbled across an interesting post on the Pop Hangover site.
Titled ‘Swan Flu? Susan Boil? Farrah Faucet?’, it is a shortened version of a Yahoo! Buzz list of the [...]

Could you live without being connected?

In today’s culture, where we have become accustomed to being connected to a network of people and information at the touch of a button no matter our location, it seems that the tools required to maintain that connectivity are viewed as more important than items which, in the past, we vowed we would never live [...]

The US government sets a great online example

Search Marketing Gurus last week blogged that President Obama (in his 50 days in office) has been changing the way that the executive branch of the government does business online.
SMG goes on to list how America’s ‘first Social Media president’ got his team to revitalise the official US government website, whitehouse.gov, which is regularly updated. [...]

“Yes, we can” prank Julius Malema!

94.7 Highveld Stereo’s prankster Darren “Whackhead” Simpson this week caught ANC Youth League (ANCyl) leader Julius Malema off guard and added Malema to his list of pranks.
Whackhead phoned Malema under the pretence of being US President Barack Obama’s assistant, saying he was setting up a conference call between Malema and Obama. Malema seemed pretty nonchalant [...]

Follow Obama online

 
What with yesterday`s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America, interest in all things Obama has dramatically increased. 
Print and online publications are analysing every detail, from how to`Obamafy` your siteand providing updates to the inauguration twistori, to commentary on the inaugural balls, the ridiculous Obama memorabilia that`s hit the shelves, and whether [...]