Commonly Creative

Creative Commons (CC) is a web portal that allows local creators, educators and administrators to distribute their ideas and creations; free licences and legal tools make it easy for internet users to share and build on the work of others while abiding by copyright laws.

Creative Commons South Africa states that as South Africans, the idea that collective knowledge should form the starting point of a fluid, continuously-evolving creation process is not new- it is merely an extension of ‘ubuntu’. It supports the belief that the creation process evolves from the community, and that some of the value of the creation must be given back to the community in order to strengthen future contributions.

Julius Malema ©

Bloody Agent on the DanceFLOOR
So Malema did/said something stupid again- this really isn’t anything new now is it? And as uh, creative or unique his comments may be each time, the novelty of his stupidity does get old. Being creative and frustrated minds in the media industry we tend to find comfort in satire; ZA News and Zapiro did a good job of dealing with Zuma, and now, coming to a dance floor near you, ‘Revolutionary House’ featuring our one and only, Julius Malema!

Evolution vs. Extinction

Traditional journalism values and ethics have provided a steady moral ground from which the journalist begins his work; it is the basis of many a first year journalism student’s theory lessons, it is the start of a code of conduct for any publication, and they were the basics from which broadcast ethics and laws stemmed.

Kendyl Salcito of the Centre for Journalism Ethics (www.journalismethics.ca/online_journalism_ethics) states that ‘journalism is evolving rapidly in a “mixed media” of traditional newspapers and broadcast stations combined with a “new media” of on-line journalists’- thus our ethics and laws must evolve with the advancements of journalism technology.