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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 →

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 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 →

Google wins MySpace deal

I've been on MySpace for a while now and you can connect with me on my profile if you are also on MySpace. MySpace is the biggest phenomenon in the last two or three years and its growth is increasing at levels not seen since the early days of the Web (circa 1996). And now that Google has clinched the deal to provide search and advertising on the Newscorp websites MySpace and IGN, it has entrenching its position as the leader in online advertising. You can read the full announcement here with all the details. Read More →

Ramon Thomas discuss Cyber Love on Carte Blanche

How do you find love? At a bar? A club? These days, love-seekers are going for a safer option, online dating. So, those pre-first date butterflies can be somewhat quashed by backward and forward emails, finding out about potential partners. Carte Blanche explores the pros and cons of online dating, and goes on a first date. Read More →

Prim Reddy interview on 702

Prim Reddy Talkradio 702 interview with Ramon ThomasRamon Thomas joins us on the line, he is MD of NETucation and he is going to be chatting to us about online dating. P: Hi Ramon RT: Hi Prim, thanks for having me on the show. P: Well thanks very much for taking the time, why online dating, why not the traditional way of meeting someone in the flesh at first go? RT: Well it Read More →