The Best of News Feeds #3

Does PNG really need another TV Station?

Emmanuel on: PAPUA NEW GUINEA Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers

Since we’re talking about the NTS at the moment, thought I’d share this information I found on a random google search (”PNG, TV”). Number of Television Sets: 42,000 Television Sets per 1,000: 8.3 Number of Radio Stations: 55 Number of Radio Receivers: 410,000 Radio Receivers per 1,000: 81.2 Number of Individuals with Internet Access: 135,000 Internet Access per 1,000: 26.7 Most of the data references are dated back [...]

Now here’s a top story…

Trupela Tok on: Goroka General Hospital website a first for PNG

The following article written by Malum Nalu will be published in today’s issue of The National. In more ways than one the timing of this article could not have been better. With the Hospital currently going through a process of seeking funding to extend the IT Project to include an Electronic Patient Records System, Malum’s article could not have come at a better time and will certainly attract some much needed attention. There currently exists a golden window of opportunity for Open Source Software Developments in Papua New Guinea and the task of getting this fact through to potential donors and/or investors is turning out to be an arduous challenge…

The never ending story of software upgrades…

WordPress Hack on: WordPress 2.7 Features List Finalized

Back on August 1st we talked about what features to expect in WordPress 2.7. Though not much had been finalized at the time, the WordPress team had collected a lot of feedback and had a list of features they were looking into adding to WordPress 2.7.
Well, as always the WordPress team has been hard at work and today I noticed a post over at Ryan Boren’s blog that discusses what features have already been built into WordPress 2.7 (not a complete list, but the highlights)…

And I used to think that SEO stood for Something Executive Office…

SiteProNews: These 10 SEO Tactics Bring Me Over 2000 Visitors Daily

No matter how hard some people try to mystify SEO, it is not as complicated as many would lead you to believe. Despite all the techno jargon that many in the field will throw at you: SERPs, SEM, PageRank, Keyword Density, Vertical Search, Algorithms… SEO is really simple to do if you understand some basic concepts and follow some easy steps…

Only in the US of A…

Lorelle VanFossen on: See You in Las Vegas at Blog World Expo

In addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including…

What do you think of this one?

Tavurvur: The PNG Defence Force: Our Weakest Link

“Papua New Guinea does have a defence force – they use bows and arrows and National batteries for their torches” – that was a joke that we used to always make when we were kids.
And although it is a joke which is quite eccentric, it does convey a rather powerful point, and that is the incompetency of the PNG Defence Force (PNGDF).
If you follow PNG news, every now and then you will notice that former Papua New Guinea military commander General Jerry Singirok always pipes up from the shadows of his retired refuge and attacks the Government’s policies on national security – or the lack of.

Hepeep-hooray-hepeep-hooray!!

Malum Nalu on: Goroka hospital goes online in a first for Papua New Guinea

Goroka General Hospital has taken a giant step forward into the information age and e-health revolution by being the first hospital in the country to set up a website.
The website http://www.ggh.org.pg/ was set up recently by the hospital’s volunteer IT manager Robert Schilt.
“Goroka General Hospital is committed to embracing Information Technology (IT) as part of its overall strategic direction, which is to enhance and improve the delivery of effective Health Services to people of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea,” said a proud hospital CEO Dr Joseph Apa.

If only we had a crystal ball…

The Blog Herald on: The Future of Blogging: Interview with a Blogger from 2018

Have you ever wanted to know the future of the blogosphere – say, what blogs will be like 10 years from now?
Thanks to The Blog Herald’s brand new Advanced Blogospheric Chrononavigational Discombobulus (ABCD) – basically a time machine fortuitously dropped at our doorstep last night by an unknown person – now you can.
Immediately after checking the outcomes of the next 5 U.S. presidential elections (Nader ‘24! Who’da thunk?) and finding out exactly when World War III will start (thank heavens we can still prevent it), The Blog Herald excitedly sat down with a Ms. X, a professional blogger in the year 2018.
Here’s what X had to say about the future of blogs…