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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

If a conversation takes place online and hear or see it, did it actually happen? you’re not there to

This is a question asked by Brian Solis of the PR 2.0 blog, who recently wrote about how he worked with Jesse Thomas of JESS3, to “create a new graphic that helps chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web”. The conversation prism is [...]