The Times LIVE new-look website does not please

The Times re-launched its website, with a new-look and feel and has called it Times LIVE. The research into the design process was taken from Scandinavian countries, which have the highest internet penetration rates, as well as the highest number of online news consumers. It therefore made sense that the new-look would be successful in [...]

Multimedia’s growing appeal to Gen-Y

We recently published a story about the launch of The Times new-look website and noticed a few interesting trends based on our interviews with The Times Editor, Ray Hartley and Avusa GM, Elan Lohmann. The new-look website is using a new content management system that will integrate more multimedia content not only on the website, [...]

Generations’ criticism moves into the social media space

The Times reports that Durban pastor and prominent ANC member, Vusi Dube, slammed South Africa’s leading soapie,Generations, on Facebook earlier this week, calling the show a ‘disgrace’ to black people and accused the SABC of subjecting its viewers to ‘junk’.
Generations’ Artistic Director, Mark Graham, responded to the criticism by stating that the purpose of drama is [...]

Controversial Internet Explorer ad pulled

It’s been called ‘the blue screen of death of advertising’ by The Times website, and all the controversy piqued my interest, so I had to have a look and see what it’s all about.
The ad in question is from Microsoft, advertising Internet Explorer 8’s Privacy Browsing tool. It was online only, and titled O.M.G.I.G.P -“Oh [...]

Susan Boyle “dreamed a dream” and it came true

At the beginning of the week, I was asked if I’d heard about Susan Boyle, a contestant on the new season of British reality TV program, Britain’s Got Talent. Being slightly obsessed with all things reality TV-related, I decided to find out about this woman who seemed to have captured everyone’s attention.
Boyle is a 47-year-old, [...]

Suckered on April Fool’s Day!

I was driving to work this morning, listening to 94.7 Highveld Stereo, when the news came on. One of the stories was about Charlize Theron coming back to live in South Africa, after being offered a lot of money from Isidingo producers to play the role of Candy Kendel. The report claimed Theron had passed [...]

SA needs a blogopticon, too!

Gino Cosme commented on his blog last week that the blogopticon chart by Vanity Fair is ‘an awesome idea’. I agree. It’s often hard to tell whether a blog is based on news or opinion. VF’s blog chart basically divides America’s most widely-read blogs based on politics, the media and celeb gossip into four basic [...]