Wessel van Rensburg

My mind is digital but my heart in the southern bit of Africa, RAAK founder, media voyeur, blogger http://mhambi.com, tech fetishist, documentary maker.

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Is Medium a platform for attention seekers & troll gazing?

Medium bucks a UX design trend which has important implications for what content will thrive on it

Wessel van Rensburg6 min read

Statusnomics

Twitter’s ‘problem’ is not about signal versus noise

Wessel van Rensburg5 min read

Cowboys don’t cry

Journalists are hunting in packs trying to silence a South African politician

Wessel van Rensburg3 min read

A public service social network won’t save us from total surveillance

This kind of surveillance not dependent on advertising

Wessel van Rensburg4 min read

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South African society & politics

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Scottish Ripples

How the Scottish Independence Vote Could Affect the World

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Last Call

The end of the printed newspaper.

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What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson:

Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson

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