In the mid-2000s, Matthew Buckland took over the M&G’s website, and gave it a new lease on life. First, though, he had to fight an ownership battle
A little blog out of New York called Africa is a Country has become a loud voice for the continent, whether it likes it or not.
VIDEO: Meet Malibongwe Tyilo, a creative who is putting local fashion and design in the multimedia spotlight. He is an M&G 200 Young South African.
Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform.It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn’t hear often enough.
China has shut down websites, made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumours of a coup linked to a major political drama.
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups’ agendas.
The knives are out in the food writers’ kitchen with the new media giving the established press indigestion.
The Vatican on Monday invited 150 bloggers from around the world to a first-ever blogging summit, increasingly aware of the importance of blogging.
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/ 21 January 2011
Hundreds of bloggers write about their illness or trauma every day. <b>Sue Eckstein<b> explains why.
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/ 13 September 2009
Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
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/ 26 November 2008
There’s SlowSex (apparently; first I’d heard of it), SlowCities, and SlowFood. Now, the New York Times reports, there is also Slow Blogging.
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/ 20 October 2008
The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.
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/ 16 September 2008
For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.
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/ 13 September 2008
One of Thought Leader’s most popular bloggers has been named winner of the "innovative use of the Internet" award at the Highway Africa conference.
There is new freedom on the internet as Olympic athletes can talk about the restrictions and other issues on their own blog.
China’s Olympic security operation makes the country look like a police state, according to the artist behind Beijing’s spectacular new stadium.
For the Games, the digital revolution is armed with a double-edged sword — it has lured the younger generation away, but brings new opportunities.
Everyone knows <i>Sunday Times</i> columnist David Bullard has enough vitriol to run a small vehicle for a month.