Ismail Dhorat

Peering over the Edge of Tech,Life & Politics….

Tag archive for ‘Global Voices’

Stop Drawing racial lines in the Sand, Take Action


Recently Mandy Dewaal wrote a post entitled “Who’s who in the web 2.0 zoo”, and she concluded that web 2.0 was a “whiteboys club”. Something you would bound to agree with given the people noted in the article. However, Ramon Thomas responded with “Who’s who in the non-white Web 2.0 South African Zoo“.
I asked [...]

Analysing SA Blogs, Where are the black readers/bloggers?


Amatomu a round up of South African blogs has just passed their one year anniversary and the stats are quite interesting to note. If you happen to follow the SA blogosphere you can be forgiven for thinking majority of South African are huge rugby fans.
Take a look at the screen shot of [...]

Will the South African Media ever get over the MXit Issue?


Recently IOL ran a story called “Lost girls in MXit drama”. With Mxit being a South African mobile IM service i have gotten used to these stories. With all the radio shows discussing the issue to the concerned parents constantly calling into radio stations to complain.
But seriously now, ENOUGH! These headlines and articles, radio [...]

Twitter banned in Dubai?


I was pretty surprised to find waiting in transit had a post on twitter being blocked in Dubai. He basically questions the authenticity of a post at techtree.
I personally just logged on to twitter this morning and as you can see i have been posting tweets regularly. However my internet is provided by Du and [...]

Free zones now face censored proxy


The run of uncensored internet enjoyed in UAE free zones is over. Today being the first day that the du proxy was switched on i wondered how long would it be before i received the dreaded error message for visiting a ‘Questionable site’.
After a ton of frantic sms this morning from friends with ‘Is (insert [...]