In a perfect world, the Internet would automatically shield children from contact with questionable content and dangerous people. Unfortunately, nobody exercises complete control over the online world in any centralised manner. What is considered illegal in one country may not even be considered an issue in another. This danger has been extended to free-for-all mobile…
This blog post was updated for some corrections in June 2012. Mandy de Waal, a freelance journalist, wrote this article on ITWeb, profiling top social media gurus in South Africa. When I first read it, I found it offensive not because it’s inaccurate, but rather because it is incomplete. The main reason I take issue…
According to an email from Chris Anderson, the curator of the TED Conference, TEDAfrica, due to be held in Cape Town at the end of September 2008, has been suspended. This news has also been posted on the TED Blog where I have already posted a comment,t and I encourage you to do so as…
I have never been married, so this post is completely biased. However, I’ve been to many weddings like most people have in their lifetimes. And in 3 cases I have been best man, twice to cousins and once to a best friend from school. I’m not sure if they were engaged,d but I assume they…
US socialite Paris Hilton is currently visiting South Africa with her boyfriend, Benji Madden. She has been on the local news, and some photographs have already surfaced of Paris playing with school children from the Jakaranda Kinderhuis school in Pretoria. Her boyfriend Benji Madden and his band, Good Charlotte, are to perform at My Coke…