Zapiro’s at it again today with this absolute gem, given the current fight launched against him by the protagonists in his first cartoon. Well, here they are again with another satirical Zapiro-style hit.
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Todd Defren, responding to Rohit Bhargava’s session on “The Future of Marketing & Advertising.” at the NewComm Forum. The story goes like this…
Rohit asked “What keeps you up at night? What do you fear in this brave new world?”
Rohit’s answer… paraphrased by Todd …“I’m afraid of what happens when a big corporation peels $1M from their advertising budget and hands it to me for a Social Media campaign. The types of demands they’ll make regarding ROI for that kind of budget won’t be easily answered.”
Todd then goes … Heck, give me a million dollars – I double-dog-dare you – and we can talk about how we’ll use that money to generate more positive word-of-mouth for your company than any single advertising campaign could ever accomplish. … and gives a breakdown of what he would do to generate the most amount of word-of-mouth anyone can get with $1m.
Read his entire blogpost... It’s very enlightening and entertaining.
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Jim Cramer, the web entrepreneur and star of his own TV Show “Mad Money” on MSNBC (you might remember him from the part he played in Iron Man), recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he hates media stocks, maybe not all of them, but he hits on two media companies in particular…
“The world got changed by two companies,” he says. “Apple is taking away the profitability of TV, and Google is taking it away in print. And it’s never going to reverse.”
In the near term, Google is the bigger villain.
“It’s just a parasite,” he says. “It doesn’t create content, it steals it, borrows it, shares it.”
What he says does have some weight… recently both New York Times and the publishing company Gannet, both reported shortfalls in revenue and I’m sure other media are feeling the pinch too.
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Youtube has launched a Citizen News Channel in order to highlight some of the best news content on the web.
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This is interesting for anyone in the film industry…
The Arabic satellite Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is calling for Arabic language film submissions from young filmmakers. The Qatar-based channel hopes to purchase short documentary films that feature cultural, historical, environmental, geographic, socio-political, and youth related issues.Submissions should be five minutes long, and must be filmed on HDV or Digital Betacam.
Interested parties can send their films to: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, P.O. Box 23, 123 Television circle, Doha, Qatar.
For more information, contact abdelwahaba@aljazeera.net.
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Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera Camerman has been finally freed after years of detention and torture at Guantanamo Bay.
He has been on Hunger Strike for the past 16 months protesting against being held without trial or charge since December 2001.
Zachary Katznelson, a lawyer with the Reprieve organisation has worked with Al Hajj’s case since 2005 and has visited him 10 times since then , the last time just three weeks ago.
“He looks like an ill man, he has problems with his kidneys, liver, blood in his urine and there are concerns that he may have cancer.”
Katznelson said that the cameraman’s release was probably motivated by political concerns.
“I think this is part of a larger picture between the United States and Sudan, that they are trying to bring those countries closer together,” he said.
“Sudan, one of the primary demands they made to the United States, is if you want to normalise relations with us you have to give something back, and one of the things is the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.”
Martin Mubanga, a former Gitmo detainee himself, has said that Sami had refused to be broken during his time Guantanamo Bay and his stime there had strengthened his resolve against the American Authorities due to his horrible treatment and the US’s blatant tactics to gain ‘dirt’ on Al Jazeera.
Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera’s MD will be in Khartoum to welcome back Sami and has criticised the Us for the tactics they used in order to spy on Al Jazeera.
“We are concerned about the way the Americans dealt with Sami, and we are concerned about the way they could deal with others as well,” he said.
“Sami will continue with Al Jazeera, he will continue as a professional person who has done great jobs during his work with Al Jazeera.
“We congratulate his family and all those who knew Sami and loved Sami and worked for this moment.”
Well, I think I made some new ground in terms of pushing South African Radio to new limits, even if it was only with the last hours of the KZN Muslim Community Radio Station, Radio Al-Ansaar. I host a show called “WIRED”, every Saturday during the Radio Station’s tenure which lasts about a month at a time (they’re still trying for a full license to operate all year long).
Anyway, the last few hours I was talking about occurred on Friday night , approaching the midnight hour and although I had enough material to keep the show going I though I should spruce it up by getting input from anybody on-line via Twitter and Facebook. Since the radio station also has audio streaming, this made it a bit easier to get a worldwide audience involved.
So I did get a lot of requests and dedications via Twitter and Facebook from places like Doha and London, this was exclusive of the SMS’s and telephone calls we were receiving throughout the show. So there you have it… South Africa’s first live Talk show with requests put in via Twitter and Facebook. I think other Radio station like East Coast Radio and 5fm should start doing the same. It’s easier, faster and you can definitely get a world-wide base of radio listeners inputting into your radio show LIVE.
I’m just assuming I’m the first one to do this, since I haven’t heard any other Radio DJ’s take requests via any Web 2.0 applications… but if I’m not the first, please let me know!
Let’s hope this is just taste of things to come for South African Radio. We can revolutionise the way we communicate on a mass scale! This can even be rolled out to TV shows.
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Fists in the Air…