Archive for August, 2007

Idols contestant Cliff Jennings is actually an ad campaign formulated by Ogilvy Johannesburg, according to a headline story in this afternoon’s News24.com newsletter. The story was broken by a blogger, which is causing quite a furore among some loyal reality TV fans, who would have preferred to have been kept in the dark.
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The official launch of Highway Africa with all the sponsors took place in downtown Jo’burg Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at the Market Theatre. The main sponsors are SABC, Absa and Telkom, as well as Rhodes University – which birthed this annual media event in its New Media Lab 11 years ago – and all the [...]

Consumer Dave 1.0… 
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Along with the recent furore over the sacking of one health minister and continuing office of another, infant and child mortality in South Africa has been hitting the headlines. The Medical Research Council’ss hard-hitting report on the unacceptable levels of child mortality in South Africa is backed up by a study on research priorities to [...]

I picked up a news item the other day regarding Facebook and the fact that more and more Australian companies appear to be clamping down on their employees’ use of Facebook at work because it’s costing them (the employers) huge amounts of money. But it’s been like that with everything, hasn’t it? Some years back [...]

Have you sent someone a strawberry dipped in chocolate recently? Dedicated a song to a friend? Connected with more than 50 clients and colleagues and friends in one day? Become a member of over 30 professional and hobby interest groups – all in one week? Thrown a sheep in jest? If you have, then you’re [...]

Well, it is finally official – what medical research has known for some time – no nutritional programme will prevent the progression of HIV to the syndrome AIDS. Not even if it contains garlic, olive oil, beetroot and the much lauded African potato. These are the findings of a panel of South African scientists who [...]