Cybersurf

In this regular slot, we usually make an effort to find sites that are useful for you, the listener – and today we have struck paydirt.

Charles Webster, joins us in the studio to tell us about a very practical consumer site with a somewhat cryptic name – HelloPeter dot com. Charles, before you go anywhere, please tell us how this name came about:

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Charles Webster is an internet consultant and today he was sharing some thoughts on the Hellopeter dot com web site.

So if you have received shoddy treatment at any commercial establishment – go straight to hellopeter dot com; publish your complaint on the site, and you will probably get a response sooner than you think.

With that we close this week’s Cybersurf – please join me again next Wednesday for more on the best of the web.

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Merle Dieterich has two kids and she could never find enough ways of keeping them constructively amused – I am sure it was particularly difficult during the holidays – and of course there was always the “I am bored” syndrome.

Merle started looking harder for things to do and found out that actually – there is plenty to do in Jozi – so what else could she do?

She spent seven months putting together the Jozi Kids web site and now it is live. What is on the site – let Merle answer that for herself.

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Merle Dieterich of Jozikids dot co dot za – it’s a very useful site that I am sure will become even more useful as time goes by.

And so we wrap up Cybersurf for today. Thanks for listening and do join me again next Wednesday for more on the best of the web.

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Digital rights management is one of the most contentious issues on the internet because it directly affects the way we manage intellectual property – or who own the music and software that moves so freely over the internet?

Heather Ford is a driving force at iCommons dot org and was instrumental in setting up Creative Commons South Africa. So I asked for her understanding of digital rights management.

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Heather Ford discussing creative new business models for the Internet age. If you’d like to learn more about Creative ways of managing intellectual property rights, check out the Creative commons web site at http://za.creativecommons.org/

Next week an important Creative Commons conference will be taking place in Cape Town. So check it out http://za.creativecommons.org/

And with that we wrap up today’s edition of Cybersurf – please join me again next Wednesday, for more on the best of the web.

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