FT.com: Silence about the silencing of South Africa’s press
Saturday, 21 August 2010, 09:48
Gideon Rachman: "[A] proposed law in South Africa that would go a long way to muzzling the press … is a major threat to South African democracy. Yet, I have been struck by the almost total silence of the British press on this subject. Papers that devoted acres of space to the success of the World Cup cannot be bothered to follow up with a report of what’s going on in South Africa now."
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 14:45
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"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.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 14:31
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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.
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 19:42
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"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"
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 10:16
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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.
