This morning I was interviewed by Jeremy Maggs on the After 8 Debate (SAFM). The question on this debate is: are online social networking tools, such as Facebook, MXit & MySpace retarding our children’s ability to communicate? Lynne Cawood, director of Childline Gauteng and Steven Ambrose, director of World Wide Worx Strategy, were also on…
This month we discussed the importance of Social networking profiles and how to link it with your blog. For the last few months, since TEDGlobal and Henry Addo, a blogger from Ghana, and I have been having regular discussions via Skype on Blogging. Currently, Skype allows a maximum of 9 people on a Conference Call…
Early in 2006 I was featured in the now defunct Nova newspaper and about a week later the paper shut down. Back in 2004 I was featured on the front page of ThisDay newspaper and shortly afterwards it was also shutdown. Now if I was superstitious I would think those were bad omens for me….
Last Friday, I was interviewed on the Midday Report with Chris Gibbons. This is a very fast-paced show which addresses everything from business to politics and what lies in between. The topic was who’s editing Wikipedia, which has been driving up a storm of online commentary. A Caltech graduate, Virgin Griffith has developed an application,…
Earlier this month, I received an email from Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, following up on the conference in Tanzania. Several videos from the TEDGlobal conference I attended in Arusha a few months ago premièred online. My favourite is George Ayittey, who roused the audience, alternating from lacerating criticism of Africa’s “hippo generation” to…