"We built our own content management system from the ground up. The site was built using PHP5 and MySQL5, on a Fedora Core OS." Includes Calais-based Semantic tagging and lots of other interesting ideas.

Some interesting features on the new Mail & Guardian site: StoryPredictor suggests articles according to reader interests. NewsSwarm shows who is viewing articles. StoryHistory utility will save articles … Articles will be integrated with Google Maps.

"In September and October this year the Mail & Guardian newspaper hit the highest circulation in its history, so clearly print is not dead - at least in Africa"

South Africa’s blogosphere is reacting to the ignorant and offensive comments of a newspaper columnist who likened bloggers generally to the Virginia Tech murderer.