Archive for the ‘digg’ Category

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Social Media Strategy in South Africa

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I came across a very insightful post over at Experience: The Blog where the author uses Maslow's hierarchy of needs to tease out some of the reasons for online behaviour, in this case why people join online communities. It is a very good analysis of the motivations behind people's behaviour ...

Consolidation of scattered web identities – Friendfeed

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

After a long break from blogging because of project and client commitments (I was Twittering and Facebooking and Friendfeeding and posting to del.icio.us all the time; does that count...?), I have now decided to get a name domain and do a bit of the personal branding type stuff that everyone ...

Windows Vista, Office 2007 Expelled From British Schools

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Information Week carries a story about the British Education authorities deciding against upgrading their network of schools to Windows Vista and Office 2007. They cite cost and 'unclear benefits' as reasons and are looking at free Open Source alternatives such as OpenOffice.org, which is near equivalent and in many ways ...

Blog Security!

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Update: Just a week ago I did a View Source of my blog webpage and discovered some editURI entries that redirected to a domain i did not know and when I tried to look it up with domaintools.com, my browser bombed out... So far from wanting to appear to be ...

Our very own YouTube channel, woohoo!!!

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Well, it had to happen sooner or later, but we are proud to announce our very own YouTube channel, specifically for Hogsback Media Networks related content. In trying to build up features and content for this site, one of the obvious media modalities to consider is videos of things and subjects ...