Netvouz / davidbrake / all http://www.netvouz.com/davidbrake?feed=rss&page=all&pg=53 All davidbrake's bookmarks on Netvouz African Communication Review http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=77&Itemid=28 journalism davidbrake Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:37:57 GMT African Internet Status http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/afstat.htm Updated: July 2002 The use of the Internet has grown relatively rapidly in most urban areas in Africa, in much the same pattern as the adoption of the mobile phone which followed shortly after. As an indication, five years ago, only a handful of countries had local Internet access, now it is available in every capital city. But although these are encouraging trends, the differences between the development levels of Africa and the rest of the world are much wider in this area than they are using more traditional measures of development: Of the approximately 816 million people in Africa in 2001, it is estimated that only: * 1 in 4 have a radio (205m) * 1 in 13 have a TV (62m) * 1 in 35 have a mobile phone (24m) * 1 in 4 academic davidbrake Sun, 14 May 2006 14:31:49 GMT After a half-decade, massive Wikipedia hoax finally exposed http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikipedia-bicholim-conflict-hoax-deleted/ teaching davidbrake Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:12:31 GMT Agencies ordered to pay $1.2m for photographs taken from Twitter http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/nov/26/news-agencies-news-photography davidbrake Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:24:19 GMT agoda.com http://www.agoda.com/ Discount Hotel Reservations - Smarter Hotel Booking! travel davidbrake Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:23:24 GMT AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx academic davidbrake Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:57 GMT Airbnb - Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night (global) http://www.airbnb.com/ travel davidbrake Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:33:09 GMT Airline Seat Guide for Airline Seat Pitch and Seat Information in First, Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/seat_intro.htm travel davidbrake Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:15:57 GMT AirSet http://airset.com/ Shared Online Calendars, Contacts and Lists for your Family, Work and Social Groups (seems targetted esp. at mobile phone users?) cool web services davidbrake Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:38:45 GMT Al Jazeera staff resign after ‘biased' Egypt coverage http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/al-jazeera-staff-resign-after-biased-egypt-coverage-1.1206924 GulfNews.com teaching davidbrake Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:20:41 GMT