Knowledge is a right – Education Week – 2011
THIS week I attended the African Education Week. This is an annual convention and learning expo and is hosted in Johannesburg. I again realised that the one thing that is…
Will Facebook meet its match soon?
FACEBOOK now has a reported subscriber-base of about 750 million. Never before has there been such an enormous uptake of any online service. On Saturday, I presented a short talk…
Make your voice heard
How many times have you pretended to be a dj on the radio? Well not on the radio, maybe just holding a beer bottle at a party announcing the next…
Get your news fix every day
DON’T read this if you have work to do today! Rather keep it for the weekend. Now that I have given you a fair warning, I can tell you about…
Welcome to the iCloud
IT ain’t cool until Apple decides to do it! This is the mantra of the very devoted Apple fans. As a Apple fan I can tell you that it is…
Get a Freelancer! Freelancer.com
Every now and again I find a website that can be a life changer. Freelancer.com is one of those websites. We are living in a world today that is changing…
How we say goodbye
People mourn in many different ways. I have noticed during the past few months how people have now moved their mourning to the social sphere. Let me first go back.…
Research and the Internet equals cyber scholar
Mr Nico Baird, CUT; Veronica Masenya, Anthropology (Hons), UFS; Nonini Makhothe Psychology (Hons), UNISA; and Prof. Johannes Cronjé, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Photo: Phelekwa Mpono How to harness the…
Cybersholarship made easy
The way we are doing research is changing rapidly. Going to a library to find resources may still be a common practice when doing your masters degree or your Phd,…