It's amazing to know that most of the technological things that we know such as soft-wares and networking sites are not an original ideas by the people who get famous and rich for it. I was just re-reading the article about facebook only to find out that most of the ideas that Mark Zuckerberg has used to create facebook were taken from other networking site:so much for originality; but atleast he had an idea its just that it had to be boosted by other peoples work.
If compared to Bill Gates Mark is better simply because he had a vision, unlike Bill Gates whose getting full credit for Microsoft not to mention the billions too, but did not contribute an idea, just bought the software from some one. Personally I think who ever it is that had the idea of Microsoft to get a share of some sort.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
PRACTISE PAGE
It's amazing how we tell ourselves that since we have done something before; even though it was a long time ago; we would be able to nail it the second time around with no hassle what so ever. Well I learnt this the hard way using Kompozer for my practise page.
I had done most of the work during my tut last week, so I left all the last minute editing for the last day thinking it will all be a breeze. It took me an hour to be exact just to do the anchoring, linking as well as the posting of the pictures correctly. After I was done with that I uploaded it on to moodle but I got frustrated when it did not look the same, it had pictures in places that I did not put it in, colours that just appeared from nowhere, and there I was thinking I was finished, I just kept laughing in amazement; thinking to myself how could this happen; than I had to start again. It all came together well at the end though, don't think there was anything more for me to do.
Here is the assignment that thought me a lesson yesterday, maybe practise actually does make perfect. PRACTISE PAGE
I had done most of the work during my tut last week, so I left all the last minute editing for the last day thinking it will all be a breeze. It took me an hour to be exact just to do the anchoring, linking as well as the posting of the pictures correctly. After I was done with that I uploaded it on to moodle but I got frustrated when it did not look the same, it had pictures in places that I did not put it in, colours that just appeared from nowhere, and there I was thinking I was finished, I just kept laughing in amazement; thinking to myself how could this happen; than I had to start again. It all came together well at the end though, don't think there was anything more for me to do.
Here is the assignment that thought me a lesson yesterday, maybe practise actually does make perfect. PRACTISE PAGE
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
MALEMA Vs. THE ANC
The ANC does not seem to be happy about anything these days. First there instated a law against the freedom of expression of the media, which many people;myself included; was against, now they want to create a law against the freedom of expression of their own members.The usual happened' Malema made a comment which was found offensive but this time Mr. Jacob Zuma found it targeted to him therefore he wants action to be taken. Malema said " all people should have one partner, one man with one wife, one boy with one girlfriend and one woman with one husband". knowing well the history of our president one would know that this does not apply to him as he has more than one wife, many more than one. Malema has said many degrading things before to a lot of people but because it has now been directed to specific people of high power, the world must come to a stand still and only now the ANC realises he needs to be punished for his speeches which cause heartache to others. If they didn't encounter a problem with him before, than why are they having issue now.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
NEWS PORTAL
I am so proud of Aneesah and I. I know its always said never pert yourself in the back but this is good for our first article. so people just watch this space, you shall never know Daily news could be knocking down my door as we speak. Hope you enjoy the OUR article and feel free to comment. http://internetstudies.ukzn.ac.za/inst102news/node/302
Friday, September 10, 2010
OPENSHOT
I enjoyed this weeks tut alot. From the errors I made to the final editing of my short film. This week we were asked to make a short film in relation to freedom of expression. Wasn't sure on what to do at first, because it was a new software to me but I wasnt that bad because I had knowledge of Windows movie maker.
The song choice was at first confusing because there was a lot of songs that i wanted to use but unfortuanetly the time frame was limiting, we only had 60seconds to work with and we all know that even one song is not that short, so I just opted to use all the parts which I thought were relevant to the topic just edirt the songs and cut them short. A mistake which I descovered alot of people were doing is that they would any type of music; not having relation to the topic or not atleast giving the film some form of boost or enhancement.
The problem that most of us suffered from is that half way down the line our work would just dissappear so if you had not saved it after each action as advicedv than you were in trouble, which is what happened to alot of us until we caught on.
Its unfortuanete to those who did not get this opportuanity because due to the strike for it was rather a funfilled learning experience, perhaps they try doing it in their own time.
The song choice was at first confusing because there was a lot of songs that i wanted to use but unfortuanetly the time frame was limiting, we only had 60seconds to work with and we all know that even one song is not that short, so I just opted to use all the parts which I thought were relevant to the topic just edirt the songs and cut them short. A mistake which I descovered alot of people were doing is that they would any type of music; not having relation to the topic or not atleast giving the film some form of boost or enhancement.
The problem that most of us suffered from is that half way down the line our work would just dissappear so if you had not saved it after each action as advicedv than you were in trouble, which is what happened to alot of us until we caught on.
Its unfortuanete to those who did not get this opportuanity because due to the strike for it was rather a funfilled learning experience, perhaps they try doing it in their own time.
INTERESTING FINDINGS
These are the readings that I based my research on. hope you find them to be of interest. Others state why the ANC want the tribunal to be instated and others are of why it should not be.
Cronin, J., Do we need an independant media tribunal? Umsebenzi online-Volume 9, No.15. Available at:
http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?include=pubs/umsebenzi/2010/vol9-15.html
Hajra Omarjee, ANC has Second Thoughts on ‘Media Tribunal’ Plan | Women'sNet. women's net. Available at: http://www.womensnet.org.za/news/anc-has-second-thoughts-%E2%80%98media-tribunal%E2%80%99-plan
Whydam Hartley, allAfrica.com: South Africa: 'No Plan to Muzzle the Media'. Available at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201008060246.html
Cronin, J., Do we need an independant media tribunal? Umsebenzi online-Volume 9, No.15. Available at:
http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?include=pubs/umsebenzi/2010/vol9-15.html
Hajra Omarjee, ANC has Second Thoughts on ‘Media Tribunal’ Plan | Women'sNet. women's net. Available at: http://www.womensnet.org.za/news/anc-has-second-thoughts-%E2%80%98media-tribunal%E2%80%99-plan
Whydam Hartley, allAfrica.com: South Africa: 'No Plan to Muzzle the Media'. Available at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201008060246.html
MEDIA TRIBUNAL PART 2
Well thanks to the efficiency of our group we have managed to do the required research, before the due date so that gives us enough time to edit our work and make sure that the information we have is relevant to our project.
This project has opened my eyes to alot of things that I was not aware of, like the fact that this is not the first time the tribunal has been suggested to this country but it has been in the year 2007, it seems it was not a major story than simply because there was no follow through to the tribunal but the idea was shut down striaght away.
The ANC proclaims it all to have been too early and the proposal was not yet finalized, also in their defense, the media is said to have been too hostile towards the party. “This temperament has existed since the 60’s. When (former president Nelson Mandela) was released from prison, (the media) was highly critical of his ability to lead after spending 20 years in jail. Thabo Mbeki also suffered a torrid time” says Jessie Duarte (Spokesperson for the ANC women league). It seems they have also used Mr. Zuma’s “castigation” to their advantage. The ombudsman has also been said to be inadequate for editors often apologized obscurely or just apologize without stating the correct version of the story. High ranked newspapers have also been known to faultier. The Times ran an erroneous story regarding cde Nzimande for “his excitement at the prospect of sending a journalist to jail”. The following day The Times posted an apology for the story whilst The Business Day ran an article of the exact story having gotten the information from its only source- The Times newspaper.
From what I read up it also seems that the media tribunal has also managed to cause conflict between head journalists, maybe this was what the government wanted to achieve by proposing the tribunal in the first place. Could it be that they might focus more on eachother rather than report on vital stories?
This project has opened my eyes to alot of things that I was not aware of, like the fact that this is not the first time the tribunal has been suggested to this country but it has been in the year 2007, it seems it was not a major story than simply because there was no follow through to the tribunal but the idea was shut down striaght away.
The ANC proclaims it all to have been too early and the proposal was not yet finalized, also in their defense, the media is said to have been too hostile towards the party. “This temperament has existed since the 60’s. When (former president Nelson Mandela) was released from prison, (the media) was highly critical of his ability to lead after spending 20 years in jail. Thabo Mbeki also suffered a torrid time” says Jessie Duarte (Spokesperson for the ANC women league). It seems they have also used Mr. Zuma’s “castigation” to their advantage. The ombudsman has also been said to be inadequate for editors often apologized obscurely or just apologize without stating the correct version of the story. High ranked newspapers have also been known to faultier. The Times ran an erroneous story regarding cde Nzimande for “his excitement at the prospect of sending a journalist to jail”. The following day The Times posted an apology for the story whilst The Business Day ran an article of the exact story having gotten the information from its only source- The Times newspaper.
From what I read up it also seems that the media tribunal has also managed to cause conflict between head journalists, maybe this was what the government wanted to achieve by proposing the tribunal in the first place. Could it be that they might focus more on eachother rather than report on vital stories?
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