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 aggressively guy-friendly movies in recent years. This one in particular looks really good and hopefully wakes […]

 

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 […]

 

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 the first-ever […]

 

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. Emeke Okafor and I conducted the monetising blog workshop. I gave an overview of the specifics of Google AdSense, how […]

 

Day2 Blogging Conference Business and Marketing panel

The business and marketing panel was where I got my chance to do a presentation on blog marketing. Well, before we get into the details, I want to 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 […]