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Archive for March, 2006
18
Mar
Inagural Forum in JHB
Next week I will be in Jo’burg to attend the Inaugral Forum for Student Newspapers and Campus Radio Stations hosted by Unitech where I will be speaking.
My presentation is entitled “Overview of online publishing models and content management – demonstrating a free open-source software product for NGOs”. The “software product” in question is one that the New Media Lab are working on in-house, known as Digital News Room (DNR). DNR is basically a customised content management system, and soon to be complete work-flow system, for small news organisations and NGOs based on a php/MySQL platform.
The system has already been tested and used on some of our internal projects including Cue, Hana, and more recently Grocotts Mail.
Earlier this year we found out that NIZA, a Dutch-based NGO, had agreed to fund the project so that more developers could be put on the job and marketing and deployment would be covered.
This looks set to become a larger and ever more exciting project and no doubt I will be mentioning it more than once on this blog!
13
Mar
Best match ever
For those of you that didn’t watch the final ODI cricket match between South Africa and Australia or don’t even know what cricket is… shame!
It was by far one of the greatest and most entertaining achievements in sporting history, and a number of world records were set and broken on the day. Even an American guy I met who was watching cricket for the first time in his life told me “…this is much better than baseball…”.
Despite the fact that my team won, it was an absolute pleasure to watch the two top teams in the world fighting it out to the death and the whole series was phenomenal.
On a related aside, Mick Lewis, the Australian bowler who now has the infamous title of the most expensive bowling figures in the one-day version of the game (0-113 in his 10 overs) has already been added to Wikipedia.
‘Post-it-now’ culture has trully arrived!
M&G: Internet overtakes television in Britain
“The British now spend more time on the internet than watching television, according to a survey published on Wednesday by internet search engine Google.”
Well this is an unsurprising trend which I feel is likely to become the norm in most 1st world countries over the next couple of years. The major driving force has of course been cheap, reliable broadband which has impinged the same trend in South Africa for example.
With IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and DVD on demand becoming more viable services, it’s only a matter of time before all-in-one pc/media entertainment systems completely replace the static boxes in our living rooms… Well at least in some parts of the world.
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