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Monthly archive June, 2006

Marie Forleo’s new book Makes every man want you

Make Every Man Want You by Marie ForleoThe first chapter of Make Every Man Want You: How to be so damn irresistible you'll barely keep from dating yourself, is a revised edition of a previous ebook by Marie Forleo. The book title alone is more irresistible then most books of this nature.and suggests a very upbeat author. Yes, Marie happens to be a life coach, dance instructor and choreographer for MTV, VH1 and so forth. Her writing style is really sharp, crystal clear, to the Read More →

How to use Social Proof to improve your Dating

Robert Cialdini wrote a book called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion. One of the core principles in this book is "Social Proof". Wikipedia defines it as "is a psychological phenomenon which occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behaviour. Making the assumption that surrounding people possess more knowledge about the situation, they will deem the behaviour of others as appropriate." Now what happened to me last night was I was out with two female friends and one guy. And we went to a regular spot for me, Katzie's Read More →

iWeek 2006 now open for bookings

One of the biggest Internet industry conferences in South Africa, the annual Internet Week or iWeek is now open for bookings. I spoke at this conference in 2004 on the topic of the Internet Cafe industry in South Africa. And I get regular emails every month increasingly about how to set-up and Internet Cafe. Well I'm working on this. What's so shocking is how disinterested the ISPs are to encourage Cyber Cafe's in South Africa. My current estimate is approximately 300 of them vs several thousand in countries like Taiwan and South Korea. A news article I found once Read More →

On Being a Lady

This is from the Napoleon Hill Foundation's Thought of the Day, "Margaret Thatcher once observed that being powerful is like being a lady: If you have to tell others you are, you aren’t. Truly great leaders gain respect by the way they conduct themselves, not by the loudness of their orders. You gain respect by respecting others" Now what I  about this is it talks about how important you have to BE for success in dating and life in general. You have to BE CONFIDENT to approach a woman. You have to BE ARTICULATE when doing a Read More →

Meaning of my name Ramon

Number of Ramon - 7 Bearers of this baby name are odd persons of saturnine temper. They are often philosophers and mystics at heart. They tire easily of a bustling and hasty life, love to think all alone and hate light-mindedness. Quite often they are devoid of commercialism and a thirst for comfort. Having keen intelligence, they can easily synthesize facts and draw unexpected conclusions from them. Somewhat mysterious, sometimes very pessimistic, they tend to be disillusioned and are inclined to believe that they are better than others. Go here for this website to find the meaning of your Read More →

2006 Star Trek Minicon in South Africa

Today I attended my 2nd Star Trek minicon in Johannesburg, South Africa. The minicon is hosted annually by Science Fiction South Africa. I've been a memeber since 2004 and attended a few of their events. Its a small group and the people are very friendly and on the shy, introverted side of life. That's to be expected for the characters of these shows (except for the leader/Captain) in most cases tend to be shy, intellectual, scienctific types. I used to be shy in high school. And that really meant I was suppressing the true me. Or that I was Read More →

Online Dating: Is True Love Just a Click Away?

In part three of this three-part series, two FOXNews.com reporters try their hand at Internet dating (click here to read about their blind dates and here to read about their speed dates). by Cassie Carothers and Michael De Dora Jr. Cassie is a 26-year-old news editor from Ohio looking to for someone who can laugh at himself and lives in the moment. Michael is a 23-year-old news editor from Long Island, N.Y., who wants a real, hip, intelligent and, yes, good-looking woman. Dating.com Not so many years ago, when someone mentioned that they'd met a new love interest on the Read More →

Speed Dating: You Can’t Hurry Love … or Can You?

Two FOXNews.com reporters tried blind dating (click here to read about their blind dates), speed dating and Internet dating in their search for love — all in the name of journalistic research, of course. Cassie is a 26-year-old news editor from Ohio looking for someone who can laugh at himself and lives in the moment. Michael is a 23-year-old news editor from Long Island, N.Y., who wants a real, hip, intelligent and, yes, good-looking woman.In part two of this three-part series, Cassie and Michael try their hand at speed dating. Check back here tomorrow to read about their Internet Read More →

Online replaces telly and print for teens

This is not exactly news for me because I’ve been following these trends internationally from the annual reports published by the Centre for the Digital Future.

Here’s the South African perspective.

A recent survey by www.Sweet16.co.za found that more South Africans teenagers are spending time online than watching television or reading magazines and newspapers.

This is attributed to an increase in households with broadband connections.

The study found that 47.1 percent of teenagers access the internet from home, and 10.7 percent at school.

Of the girls aged between12 and 24, 37.2 percent of them browse the net for a few hours each day, Read More →

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