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Monthly archive September, 2006

School for Scoundrels – Nice Guys Graduate Last

Just spotted a new movie which looks like Wedding Crashers meets Hitch and from the director of Old School, responsible for a number of Frat Pack movies. There does seem to be a trend for Hollywood to make more aggresively guy friendly movies in recent years. This one in particular looks really good and hopefully wakes up a lot of guys from them "nice guy syndrome. Read More →

The Myth of Romantic Love

In the film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra Streisand mentions the emergence of courtly love. In the following audio lecture Alan Watts identifies the same thing and expands on the link between marriage and romantic love and points to the French Troubadours 800 years ago. Here's some more background on this view: Now my favourite book about love is this amazing book by Italian journalist and Professor in Sociology, Francesco Alberoni, 77 years old and still going strong. Read More →

Cell C, SA's third mobile operator forced to end Wimax trials

Saw a story on ITWeb about Cell C being forced to shut down its WiMax trials here. Now this is the kind of bullshit that ICASA gets up to when nobody is looking. Well everybody is actually looking at them these days. And they are abusing their power which in effect slows down the rate of Internet access adoption in South Africa. We should do away with this regulator and open the market up completely. Let evolution take its course and survival of the fittest will show you who's the best. Read More →

Dating Coach responds to critics in Sunday Times

This is a response I wrote to the Editor of the Metro section of the Sunday Times, in response to readers feedback published here. Being a dating coach is a part-time interest and my primary occupation is online research. My online dating research project has been widely covered since 2004 in various media ranging from Business Day to True Love, television shows like Carte Blanche, 3Talk as well as the controversial show “SEX, etc” on M-NET last year, with sexologist, Dr Elna McIntosh, where I was interviewed on how the Internet is changing the sexual behaviour of people today. Therefore Read More →

Internet in Zimbabwe go Farming!

The Zimbabwean government owned TelOne the owner of the main Satellite firm is reported to have cut its own international bandwidth due lack of finances. With the country 's economic future at a state of collapse, doing Internet Business in Zimbabwe like farming is a mere mess. In reaction to the mess TelOne Spokesperson confirmed that, the financial crisis have been reported to the Zimbabwean Researve Bank. These latest Internet crisis have caused stear remarks from the Zimbabwean Internet Service Providers' Association.TelOne expressed the views that, TelOne had meanwhile ventured into farming by contracting tobacco and cotton farmers to produce Read More →

Sunday Times readers respond to my feature in the Metro

As you may or may not know I was featured in the Sunday Times Metro section (Gauteng only) on 10 September 2008. This interview was done on the previous Thursday and there was a quick photo shoot in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Well I just came back from a week in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown where I attended a the first ever blogging conference at Rhodes University. During one of the speed speaking session there was a woman who had read the same article on her flight from Johannesburg, and she asked me how I could give this kind of advice. This was the Read More →

Day2 Speed Speaking & Blogging Workshops

Today I didn't participate in the speed speaking sessions. And I sat through Mike Stopforth's quick demo of the software he uses to make his blogging experience more integrated and easier to manage and publicise. Myself and Emeke Okafor conducted the monetizing blog workshop. I gave and overview of the specifics of Google Adsene, how it works, how to register and showed them my latest account balance. Emeka spoke mostly at a higher level and tried to manage the expectations of the people there. As he says it takes a long time to get Read More →

Day2 Blogging Conference Business and Marketing panel

Alec Hogg & Ramon ThomasThe business and marketing panel was where I was got my chance to do a presentation on blog marketing. Well before we get into the details I want tell you about Alec Hogg. The Moneyweb founder had some very potent things to say to the audience. And it was about time. The activism and the political diatribe as well as the media and journalism speak is important but its not doing to Read More →

Day2 Blogging Conference Online Activism Panel

Ethen Zuckerman Alaa Abd El Fattah Ory OkollohThe activism session started on an okay foot with Ethan Zuckerman, hosting the panel discussion. Next to him was two leading online political activists: Alaa Abd El Fattah, the Egyptian blogger who has been jailed for his activism and Ory Okolloh from the Kenyan Pundit blog. Ory's session was to the point and highlights the power of the Internet and exposing and Read More →

Day2 We The Media Panel

Matthew Buckland publisher Mail & Guardian onlineThe 2nd day of the Blogging Indaba opened with a cracker session, We The Media, featuring some heavy hitters like Matt Buckland, publisher of the Mail & Guardian online; Tom Johnson, professor emeritus of journalism at San Francisco State University and co-founder of the Institute for Analytic Journalism; and Peter Verweij, senior lecturer at the School for Journalism at Utrecht the Netherlands. Matthew Read More →