Comments on: African Digerati: Neville Newey

By: the importance of blogging in Uganda « Jackfruity

the importance of blogging in Uganda « Jackfruity — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:40:24 +0000

[...] this week, White African featured an interview with Neville Newey, creator of the Reddit-esque African social bookmarking site Muti. I think [...]

By: Mail & Guardian launch Digerati 2009 - Nominate today | Web AddiCT(s);

Mail & Guardian launch Digerati 2009 - Nominate today | Web AddiCT(s); — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:33:15 +0000

[...] of you might recall the African Digerati interviews by White African in 2007 where Neville Newey (muti) and yours truly, Rafiq Phillips (Web AddiCT), were [...]

By: Mike Stopforth » What Surprised Me About Y Combinator’s ‘Startup Ideas We’d Like To Find’

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:05:12 +0000

[...] to Neville’s Muti link I’ve just picked up on a very intriguing post by Y Combinator, the [...]

By: South African Twitter Mashups - Appfrica

South African Twitter Mashups - Appfrica — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:47:16 +0000

[...] (Stii’s Neville Newey’s answer to Digg.com) and developer Wogan May recently started doing some interesting things with [...]

By: Alan Egner

Alan Egner — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:42:30 +0000

Neville is right about the quality of SAFM broadcasts compared with elsewhere. Despite Snuki and his politically appointed board, SAFM is highly informative. I don’t know if I would go so far as to say that this is why blogs in Africa are less important or significant. A lot has been said on this subject recently on the ‘Thought Leader” blog. The bloggers seemed to split along colour or racial lines, some claiming that blogging is a white thing. Nonetheless, well done Nev.

By: Waffle » Muti gets a Facelift

Waffle » Muti gets a Facelift — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:21:36 +0000

[...] Well for those who know the site Muti.co.za, it has just been redesigned. The logo is a little “Google-esque” but at least it succesfully communicates the name. Taken from the Zulu word for tree, the term is a South African word for traditional medicine. For those who are unaware of the site, it is a Digg or Reddit style social bookmarking site started by Neville Newey. [...]

By: Waffle » Muti gets a facelift

Waffle » Muti gets a facelift — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:42:41 +0000

[...] Well for those who know the site Muti.co.za, it has just been redesigned. The logo is a little “Google-esque” but at least it communicates the meaning. Taken from the Zulu word for tree, the term is a South African word for traditional medicine. For those who are unaware of the site, it is a Digg or Reddit style social bookmarking site started by Neville Newey. Newey is a South African living in California and started the site to allow Africans a unmoderated, user driven new site. Registered users can “vote” on stories submitted by other users and so increase or decrease the “kudus” or popularity of each story. You can read a full interview with Newey here. [...]

By: African Digerati Interviews | White African

African Digerati Interviews | White African — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:56:19 +0000

[...] Emeka Okafor Neville Newey “M” Rafiq [...]

By: Muti Now Allows Comments | White African

Muti Now Allows Comments | White African — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:37:36 +0000

[...] Looks like this is the week of Muti and it’s creator Neville. In what I think is a rather big development, because I believe it will grow the number of users considerably, Muti now allows commenting by registered users. [...]

By: HASH

HASH — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:58 +0000

I’m surprised that no one else has picked up, or commented on, this quote:

I don’t think blogging in Africa has had the same huge effect as it has in say North America yet. The reason for this is that in North America, blogging has largly been a response to the lack of good independent news sources. In Africa I believe this is less of an issue as there is less corporate ownership of news media.

I find that statement VERY interesting, and am wondering what others, specifically those in African media have to say about it.