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SNO launch a non-event for consumers
Telecoms 5
2090 days ago Ramon Thomas

SNO launch a non-event for consumers

I just read that the Second Network Operator has finally launched and is called Neotel. Well I don't really watch much news or read newspapers these days, preferring to get all my news online. And maybe I missed bigger announcements on TV or Radio. Well anyway you can read the blurb on the launch on ITWeb here. And I had a look at Neotel's website and they have Google on their home page. I recall some research being quoted that adding Google Search to your website adds credibility. Do you think Neotel's going to make a different for Read More →
Respect Yourself and Deserve What You Want
Dating 53
2092 days ago Ramon Thomas

Respect Yourself and Deserve What You Want

Tonight a woman phoned me whom I met recently. She started telling me how she's on her way home (I was on my way home as well) and that she's just come from her weekly class (she's studying toward a Charted Accountant), went for coffee and now on her way home. I joked about her not inviting me to join her for coffee. Well she got a little defence and tried to put the blame on me for not phoning her. Well I was having dinner with another woman (who also paid for it) and so I didn't have the empty Read More →
Ignorant Parents in South Africa blames MXIT for exposing Youth to Pornography
Mobile 29
2093 days ago Ramon Thomas

Ignorant Parents in South Africa blames MXIT for exposing Youth to Pornography

I was quoted in this article published on MoneyWeb, and posted this comment... People who are accusing MXIT are likely not even using MXIT. I've interviewed Herman Heunis and I've also been using it for a few months now. Its a text based system for instant messaging or chatting in semi-real time. And whatever explicit messages are being sent are just words. And its not more or less damaging then what anyone can read in most FHM, Cosmo or late night on eTV! So parents must learn to deal with this new phenomenon by educating themselves and using this platform. Read More →
Internet and digital divide:Prospects and Challenges.
Internet 61
2096 days ago The Webmaster

Internet and digital divide:Prospects and Challenges.

In 2005 civil Society groups in Africa continued their role on ICT as the World Summit on Information Society kicked off in Tunis, Tunisia. As digital Divide continue to cripple millions in the South many still believe that the Information Highway is coming to Africa. Challenges remains high ,so as possibilities growing with risks. James Curren in his chapter Rethinking Media and Democracy in Media and Society argues that New Times calls for New Thinking.It is time to rethink the role of technology on the people in developing world. Globalisation has created opportunities and threats, you have seen more prospects and Read More →
Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
Marketing 8
2099 days ago Ramon Thomas

Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins

Claude HopkinsScientific Advertising is one of the best books on advertising and marketing ever written and I found an audio version (plus PDF) available freely on the Internet... Claude Hopkins was one of the greatest advertising pioneers who ever lived. He believed that "Advertising is salesmanship" and as such, it should be measurable and justify the results that it produced. Claude was a strong believer in "Reason why copy" and the principles that he discovered and documented are as true to day, as then. It does not matter what type Read More →
Less Men and more Women
Society 22
2100 days ago Ramon Thomas

Less Men and more Women

This is a post the Ideagasms Forum There are more girls being born compared to boys. Michael Moore refers to it as, "The End of Men" in his book "Stupid White Men". According to Michael this is happening in the USA. When Micheal was young (I'm guessing something like 40 years ago), the ratio was about 50-50. 50-50 meaning there were about the same amount of males and females. Then the ratio went 49-51, with males in the minority. Soon the ratio will be 48-52. The book was published in 2001-2002 so we might be at 48-52. I'm not sure Read More →
Why Men Have Better Friends
Humour 24
2103 days ago Ramon Thomas

Why Men Have Better Friends

Friendship between Women: A woman didn't come home one night. The next day she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew about it. Friendship between Men: A man didn't come home one night. The next day he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight of them confirmed that he had slept over, and two claimed that he was still there! Read More →
Marketing Movies Online
Marketing 8
2103 days ago Ramon Thomas

Marketing Movies Online

I'm a big movie fan and always keep track of how movies are created, marketed and how they perform. With the craze that was the Passion of the Christ in 2004 there was a brilliant piece written on the approach that Mel Gibson took called, Gibon Breaks Hollywood's 10 Commands.And today I came across another brilliant example of how the movie industry is leveraging, sometimes by accident, the power of the Internet and word-of-mouth: Why Will 'Snakes on a Plane' Be a Hit? It's the Internet, Stupid. Read More →
Finally the Telecoms Action Group launches
Internet 61
2104 days ago Ramon Thomas

Finally the Telecoms Action Group launches

I'm reposting this message from the Tectonic, open source, newsletter and website. I've always believed the way to get a response is to model our campaign on the Treatment Action Campaign, the well known AIDS lobby group.Richard Frank got people talking this week with his proposal to launch an advert campaign to demand better and cheaper telecommunications options in South Africa. The call quickly got picked up by readers and other media and we spent the rest of the week flooded by emails from people pledging support. So we set up a mailing list to keep everyone Read More →
The best 25 Austin Powers Pickup Lines
Humour 24
2104 days ago Ramon Thomas

The best 25 Austin Powers Pickup Lines

1. I wish you were a door so I could slam you all day. 2. Nice legs...what time do they open? 3. Do you work for UPS? I thought I saw you checking out my package. 4. You've got 206 bones in your body, want one more? 5. Can I buy you a drink or do you just want the money? 6. I'm a bird watcher and I'm looking for a Big Breasted Bed Thrasher. Have you seen one? 7. Wanna play army? I'll lay down and you can blow the hell outta me. 8. I wish you were a Pony Carousel outside Walmart, so I could Read More →

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