Hot on the heels of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution, I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.
My mentor, Arthur Goldstuck, has just released his latest stats on Internet growth in South Africa. According to his annual study, growth has slowed down to 3% per annum, and by the end of 2007, we will have ONLY 3.85 million South Africans online. This includes the explosion of access since broadband became available a…
Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Manto Tsabalala Msimang were flying together in the President’s jet. Thabo Mbeki suddenly said: “You know what. I can throw a R500 right now out of this window and make someone happy.” Jacob Zuma said, “I can throw five R100 notes out of the window and I will make…
One of the best resources I’ve encountered, thanks to the prolific Seth Godin, is ChangeThis.com, a website where experts publish short manifestos (ebooks) which are available at no cost to you. One of the recent ones really made an impact on how I’m using email. The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple…
One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the…
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