Media

When joy comes to town

Cape Town parties on the opening day of the World Cup (Valerio Veo) There were many things I was unprepared for when coming to Africa’s World Cup. After... 

It’s lekker bru! A guide to South African lexicon

While I can’t take credit for this piece it’s a surprisingly useful guide to South African words and phrases. To be honest I thought the ‘howzit... 

A visit to Blikkiesdorp

While the World Cup promises riches and ongoing social benefits to South Africa’s fledgling democracy, all it takes is a 30 minute drive from the centre... 

Cape Town banks on the FIFA hype

Considering the world’s eyes have been cast on South Africa, you could be forgiven for thinking that Cape Town has been left off the World Cup map. Cape... 

Putting my money where my mouth is…

I gotta admit, I’m one lucky son-of-a-bitch. I’ve been given the enviable job of heading to Cape Town in South Africa for the duration of the... 

Five ways paid content can work

A couple of days ago I outlined five reasons why the paid content model will fail in response to plans by Rupert Murdoch to lead the charge consumers... 

Five reasons why the paid content model will fail

Will newspapers survive the paid content experiment? Let the great paid content experiment begin. After months of hints, guarded comments and innuendo... 

What paid content might look like

Since Rupert Murdoch recently threw his support behind the paid content model a few months back suddenly a few news organisations seem prepared to give... 

The Guradian’s crowdsourcing experiment

Yesterday at the University of Melbourne’s Future of Journalism conference I used the Guardian’s experiment to use their audience to investigate... 

The politics of blogging

Edit: been wanting to write this for a couple of weeks but its been crazy … so as they say ‘better late than never’! Last week’s...