Summaries by Steve Shipside Innovative uses of digital media Rob Curley, Vice President New Product Development, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, U.S.A. Self-styled “Internet punk” Rob Curley listed the top “strategies that we better not be afraid of”: – You must dominate local breaking news. If it happens in your town you’d better feature it, or people will [...]

Once again WiFi shows its temperamental colours by keeping me offline for the past couple of days. A summary of what’s happened over the last couple of days: Arrived in Amsterdam 4 days ago with the Marlin and kept things relatively sane Flew to Vienna, Austria 3 days ago to speak at Ifra’s 14th Beyond [...]

Well in just a few hours time, the exciting but inconvenient ritual of the long slog to the Port Elizabeth airport en route to Johannesburg begins for Vincent and I! for the very last time. We are travelling together, once again, to one of our favourite places on earth — Amsterdam. Vincent is running a [...]

Below is the transcript of my interview with Duncan Alfers which will feature in an upcoming article in Intelligence Magazine. What is your opinion on using blogs as a platform for advertising? Blog and online ad spend for that matter, have grown tremendously over the last couple of years and we’ve seen it start to [...]

For all those educators who are wondering what the best solution is for setting up simple, scalable blogs for themselves or their students, edublogs might just be the answer to your prayers. The site offers free WordPress blogs and Wikis for educators and students which they also host for you ad-free. Each blog you create [...]