The internet has a critical role to play in democracies. Likewise, it will play an important role in the country's upcoming national elections. This is now being recognised by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which for the first time had "...
I've often thought that many name change critics approach the debate with a certain intellectual dishonesty. Most of the time I hear that South Africa should not change a name of a city, road, river or geographic region because of the "cost" involved...
The official Google news blog has alerted us about a new feature on Google News that will help readers "quickly and easily" find original stories from news publishers.
This should be interesting to watch, particularly in the local context where th...
The existence of Facebook, the smash-hit social-networking site, may unwittingly kill off a host of other Web 2.0 start-ups. This is mainly because of Facebook's inclusive and all-encompassing nature. The site appears to be blogging (lite), Twitterin...
The Sunday Times story surrounding our embattled health minister has been a good example of integrated journalism. The newspaper broke the big story, yet the online presence went further than just plonking a repeat of the story on the web.
Nowaday...
So Google is not satisfied with world domination, but wants to rule the universe too. Hey, even space shuttles need search engines. Ok, at a stretch.
So it transpires that the new version of Google Earth now comes with sky imagery or a “virt...
It just had to happen. Someone had to "define" Web 3.0. And it wasn't just an ordinary someone. It happened to be Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google.
According to Read/WriteWeb, Schmidt "said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "appli...
Ars technica has reported that Google news will be accepting comments from users. This is sure to fire up the already-simmering relationship between the big online publishers and the search engine behemoth.
Online publishers have a love and hate rel...
Matthew Buckland is the GM of the Mail & Guardian Online and co-founder of award-winning blog aggregator amatomu.com and editorial blog Thought Leader. He has worked in the online medium all his working life literally from its inception in South Africa. He was one of the first new media graduates out of Rhodes University and has previously worked for iafrica.com, Carte Blanche (Interactive), Johncom (e-media) and the BBC Online (beeb.com) in the UK. He is a computer fundi and has had one since the age of 7 (ZX Spectrum 48k), where he spent most of his time creating computer games in BASIC. He has spoken around the world on online media issues, including New York, Germany, Kenya and London.
