Alastair Otter

The revolution will be downloaded

Would you like an apostrophe with that, ma’am?

Welcome to the brave new world of online media. A world where anyone with an Internet connection can be a journalist and bloggers are the new media rock stars. A world where readers can immediately deliver their own opinions, and usually do.
It’s also a world where basic grammar skills are apparently no longer needed.
I’m not [...]

Film and Publications Act: Media independence under fire

Despite widespread opposition the South African government has signed into law the Films and Publications Amendment Act 3 of 2009 (PDF). Published in the Government Gazette on August 28, the act is a wide-reaching amendment that is ostensibly designed to clamp down on the publication of child pornography but in fact introduces a range of [...]

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Alastair Otter is a writer, editor and web designer. He has worked over the past 15 years for both mainstream daily newspapers as well as for many online publications. He is also a geek at heart and founded and ran Tectonic for eight years. This is his blog about technology, writing and editing — and a few other selected topics.

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