Ismail Dhorat

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

Tag archive for ‘Social Media’

Why @NMS_ZA (Nokia Music Service) Fails on twitter


So i have been tweeting about @amawheelies project for the last few days, and they just hit 100 followers and i won a voucher for Nokia music services. Now i must say i really appreciate it, and would like to say thank You.
However, out of integrity i have to call out an issue i see [...]

How do Google Reader Recommendations work?


Google Reader, has a feature where it recommends new feeds. It continues to surprise me (as well as freak me out) at how good the recommendations sometimes are.
Previously, it recommended people from the local SA blogosphere, that i had been following on twitter.  This morning, it recommended me the twitter stream of Umair Hague who [...]

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 [...]

Investigating Twitter & Blogs impact on the Xenophobia issue


I have decided to do a quick study on what the impact of social media has been on the recent Xenophobia issue. I believe if we know how it impacts on a situation we can make use of that knowledge to actually make a difference a whole lot quicker.
Stii was kind enough to provide me [...]

Free Album from Nine inch nails, The future of music


Today Trent Reznor announced on the official Nine Inch Nails website that he would be giving his new album album “The Slip”, free of charge under a creative commons license.
From their web site:“We encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give [...]