One Show: Gold for JWT, Silver for Jupiter
NEW YORK: The One Show and One Show Design winners were announced last night, Thursday, 8 May 2008, in New York, and JWT Cape Town scooped a Gold Pencil for its poster campaign for Jabula Hair and Braids, with The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town taking Silver in television for Musica. 9 May 2008 11:29

New study on digital magazine and newspaper editions: growth, trends, and best practices
CAMBRIDGE MA, US: The Gilbane Group announced the general release of Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, a pioneering and comprehensive study of the growing market for digital editions of periodical publications, earlier this week. 9 May 2008 08:38

Fireworkx unveil redesign of South African Red Cross Society's website - Fireworkx.com
The 8th of May sees World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, focusing in South Africa on a three-month emblem campaign, seeking to grow understanding of the organisation's symbolism, as well as to prevent misuse of these highly recognisable emblems. 8 May 2008 16:21

SA's fastest growing websites - Nielsen Online
LONDON: The fastest growing South African websites over the last year and the most popular sites today were revealed by Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, earlier this week. Right at the top is Creamer Media, producing three of the four fastest growing sites - Engineering News, Mining Weekly and Polity. 8 May 2008 08:52

Bullard speaks candidly on local podcast
Sacked Sunday Times columnist and controversial writer David Bullard appears as a special guest on this week's episode of ZA Tech Show - a weekly South African technology podcast. In the show, Bullard speaks candidly about his exit from the Sunday Times and presents his side of the story, while motivating his apology which was recently printed in Business Day. 7 May 2008 09:44

Editors optimistic about multimedia newspapers - survey
LONDON: The vast majority of newspaper editors world-wide are optimistic about the future of their newspapers, but they don't think of them as "print-only," having clearly accepted the multimedia revolution, according to a global survey released yesterday, Tuesday, 6 May 2008, that provides an insider's view of newsroom attitudes and strategies. 7 May 2008 09:03

SA artist designs for Google
Desré Buirski, the artist best known for designing Madiba's trademark presidential shirts, represented South Africa at the launch event of the iGoogle artist themes project in New York last week. Buirski was one of 60 artists from around the world to design her own theme for iGoogle. 7 May 2008 08:36

OPA membership grows, with agencies showing the lead - Online Publishers Association
The uptake from agencies who were recently invited to join the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has been very encouraging. The following leading online media and creative agencies have signed up as Associate OPA members: Acceleration, Group M, Longtail, Upstream, Catgraphics and Digivox. 6 May 2008 11:39

Podcasts make you new media smart
[Jon Bishop] The new media space can be quite a daunting arena to enter, filled with big ego gladiators thinking they own the arena, ever-changing developments to keep you on your toes and a Colosseum full of new terms and abbreviations deserving of their own dictionary. So how can you get clued up quick? 6 May 2008 09:14

Making new consumer connections
[Mike Abel] Hi there. My name is Mike and I am a rejuvenile. You can even call me an adultescent if you wish. I didn't know these terms until recently, when an old friend of mine sent me a brilliant article which she had written, on the demand for certain cupcakes in New York. In this piece she uses these terms to underpin the reason for the said demand. I stole them. The words, not the cupcakes. 6 May 2008 08:50

World press pays tribute to colleagues
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] A huge cloud of uncertainty, anxiety and fear hung on Saturday, 3 May 2008, the 18th World Press Freedom Day, as media practitioners and lobby groups across the globe paid a silent tribute to their imprisoned, missing and dead colleagues and decried the critical downturn of press freedom even in countries claiming to be liberally democratic. 5 May 2008 11:09

Worldwide polls supports press freedom, Internet access
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, US: A new worldwide poll finds widespread support for freedom of the press and strong opposition to government restrictions on Internet access. Although most publics surveyed believe the media in their countries should have more freedom, those polled in Russia and many Muslim countries think their leaders should be able to regulate news coverage they consider politically destabilising. 5 May 2008 09:39

Investor relations online: it's a niche thing
[Derek Abdinor] Creating and managing investor relations (IR) websites is a great exercise in fulfillment. You have a captive audience of institutional investors, shareholders, analysts, journalists and students that scour your domain and you can manage all of their informational requirements with some careful planning and design. 30 Apr 2008 09:00