Archive for 2008

Like you, we have had a roller-coaster year, so we’re taking the opportunity to take a bit of breather, but we’ll be back again, raring to go in early January. In the meantime, we’ll keep on bringing you any breaking news via our websites.
This is also a good time to thank you all for your [...]

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Free Wifi and no laptop! Talk about a dilemma! Not sure why this is a dilemma? See the characteristics of what makes a digital nomad tick here.
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With respect to the great man! His latest book, Tribes, is now available and is a must-read for anyone in marketing and the online industry.
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Google introduces Google Friend Connect, essentially turning the entire Internet into a social network and destroying the ‘walled garden’ approach of other social networks, in the words of Vincent Maher.
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Apparently some time last week, Primedia Broadcasting silently launched the beta version of its new umbrella news brand, Eyewitness News. The site is accessible from the news section of its various radio stations such as 94.7 Highveld Stereo, Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk.

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As a journalist I always preferred experiential writing. Getting in to the place, the surroundings, descriptions and throwing in some well-researched facts to balance out the story.
I think that’s why I ended up blogging; it’s more expressive than journalism mostly allows for. I like being expressive and opinionated.
But something I have noticed by being surrounded [...]

Africa, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a continent filled with a flair that is unique. Nowhere else in the world would you find the things that you can find in Africa. We have something that stands out.
It stands out for a very specific reason. We are untouched technologically, sociologically and societally by the western [...]