It’s that time of year again for us southern-hemisphere folk. Beer, braai and beach are singing their sweet tune and I’m humming along. If this sounds too cryptic then I will put it more succinctly. It’s been a long, hard year and it’s time for me to take a break—mostly away from the digital realm [...]

USA Today: The ban follows the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by four male students at a school on the island of Evia in October, and the alleged videotaping of the incident on a cellphone of a fellow student. Back in the day when I was in high-school, I remember the first wave [...]

OJR has created a Wiki of *mostly* free tools and web services that journalists can take advantage of to improve their storytelling and multimedia skills. The Wiki is divided into several subsections including multimedia, blogs/CMS, picture & video services, forums, RSS, newsletters and HTML/CSS references. Although I’d say that in its current state the Wiki [...]

This takes it to a whole new level. With competition in the mobile phone sector increasing all the time in South Africa, it’s not uncommon to find phone contracts bundled with ‘free’ gadgets like digital cameras, mp3 players, televisions and even Xboxes; but a quad bike? Maybe it’s just my warped understanding of economics, but [...]

Residents of the extremely popular MMPORG ‘Second Life’ have been up-in-their-virtual-arms since last week, after an in-game ‘tool’ was made available for download which not only threatens their virtual identities but also potentially their livelihoods’ reports InformationWeek. CopyBot, which was initially designed as a debugging tool for the game’s developer Linden Lab, was reportedly modified [...]