Kameraad Mhambi is so excited by the prospect of watching Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 movie.
Ever since I first saw his short Alive in Joburg I thought it would make a brilliant and topical subject of a feature length film. And I love Johannesburg. It´s a city with some much energy, so much pathos and such a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'technology'
District 9 – xenophobia racism & the red ants
August 24th, 2009 · 8 Comments · art & culture, history, technology, the power of identity
Tags: District 9
Social media monitoring Zuma vs Mbeki
July 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · technology
Kameraad Mhambi has been playing around with a wonderful piece of software called Radian6. It’s used to monitor ‘conversations’ or what is being said by whom on services like Twitter, Blogs, Youtube comments, Forums etc.
Using Radian6 is fantastic, but expensive. Entry level comes out at $600 a pop per month. I tested a few keywords [...]
Tags: social media·Twitter
British jobs for British workers
January 31st, 2009 · 5 Comments · economy, environment, politics, technology
“Welcome to 2009. This is a year in which the fate of the world economy will be determined, maybe for generations. Some entertain hopes that we can restore the globally unbalanced economic growth of the middle years of this decade. They are wrong. Our choice is only over what will replace it. It is between [...]
Tags: credit crunch
Birds of prey: Terror and Julius take to Twitter
December 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · politics, technology
Mhambi has been trying for some time to get into Twitter. The so-called ‘micro-blogging’ service which is really a Facebook-like status update minus the rest of Facebook.
I followed Obama’s amazing campaign all this year for instance.
But like Facebook, Twitter is only interesting if your following and interacting with interesting people. Obama fell silent [...]
