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Six months ago Elan Lohmann gave up his top corporate job as head of digital for Avusa (now known as Times Media Group) and went solo with Sleekgeek – inspired by his own journey to healthy living. In Part 3 of our series of journalists and media people striking out on their own, Grubstreet … Read more
Six months ago Elan Lohmann gave up his top corporate job as head of digital for Avusa (now known as Times Media Group) and went solo with Sleekgeek – inspired by his own journey to healthy living. In Part 3 of our series of journalists and media people striking out on their own, Grubstreet … Read more
By Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) The innocuous looking case of H v W which was handed down in the South Gauteng High Court on 30 January 2013 is anything but. Judge Willis’ 30 page judgment recognises the harm a Facebook post can do to a person’s reputation and throws the weight of the Court behind the … Read more
[box]By Katy Pearce, an assistant professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Communication. This piece was published first on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[/box] Governments and policy pundits frequently cite technology-penetration rates — Internet, mobile phone, or social media — as meaningful proxies for deeper concepts. Despite this, in fact, penetrations rates are futile. Why … Read more
Last week I came across Wry Republic, a very lekker local website covering politics, art and culture, when its enterprising publisher and editor, Candice Holdsworth, asked to interview me about my views on the rise of online media. Ever keen to snap up an opportunity myself, I said we could interview each other in the … Read more
The R201m Nkandla security upgrade story is trending heavily on Twitter today so we put together another interactive showing the influencers in this online discussion. A bit different to our earlier National Press club rhino newsmaker interactive and the FNB/ANC advertising row ones as we see the mainstream news organisations taking centre stage this time round.
Our experiments in media interactives continue with this timeline showing Twitter tweets minute by minute in the immediate aftermath of the Sasolburg protests. One of Grubstreet’s missions is to bring serious coverage to non-traditional and emerging media in South African which is why we are dipping our toes into interactives like this involving social media and citizen commentary on unfolding affairs. Earlier projects this week looking influential players in the National Press Council rhino debate and the FNB v ANC drama.
Grubstreet is very please to bring you extracts from data-visualisation expert Andy Kirk’s recently published book, Data Visualization – A Successful Design Process. The UK-base Kirk travels the world doing data-visualisation training and I came across him last year when he was in South Africa for Media24. I followed up with an interview when he … Read more
Grubstreet is very please to bring you extracts from data-visualisation expert Andy Kirk’s recently published book, Data Visualization – A Successful Design Process. The UK-base Kirk travels the world doing data-visualisation training and I came across him last year when he was in South Africa for Media24. I followed up with an interview when he … Read more
This may be a little hard on the heels of yesterday’s interactive feature by this was too interesting to pass on. Below, see how the Twitter action unfolded around First National Bank’s advert series showing young South Africans apparently giving their own views on the future of the country and which so annoyed the ANC … Read more