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06
Feb

Deathstar Canteen – Eddie Izzard and Lego

Fantastically funny, this Izzard of ours. "I can kill catering with a thought". Funny!

06
Feb

Neil Gaiman's new book: The Graveyard Book

// Neil Gaiman, who brought us the Sandman graphic novels as well as Stardust (which became a major film) and co-authored the script for the film Beowulf, has returned ...

06
Feb

Hip Hip Hooray – The Origins

Phrases are funny old things, and have been around for ages, most of them anyway. Where do they come from? Who first said "FORE!" on a golf course? What does it all really, really mean? Take the ...

06
Feb

Ad agencies that rock

These days you can cast a pebble through your open window and if it avoids hitting your burglar bars, it will certainly hit an advertising agency. A couple of the more decent agencies to hire or work for are compiled below in: The ultimate directory of good advertising agencies on the Planet ...

04
Feb

Freelance writer in Johannesburg – Copy Resources

As a web-based marketing guy I find myself involved in all manner of interesting things including: Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Email marketing Website creation and analysis Customer conversion Social networks like Facebook, MySpace and so on Something central to all of this is pure, unadulterated GOOD CONTENT. Without it none of the above ...

03
Feb

Newsletters

I've done tons of newsletters over the years and enjoy the fact that they can be interactive and you can measure what kind of content your customers like by seeing what they click on. Here's a link to the Brands & Branding Community Portal newsletter I put together for ...

02
Feb

Electric Car 3.0

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are vehicles that are propelled by one or more electric motors. Internal combustion engines propel conventional cars – these were made popular by Henry Ford’s mass production of the Model T Ford and his assembly line factories. EVs are silent, clean and efficient. Rotary motors drive the ...

02
Feb

Military blogging gets its marching orders

An article on Wired.com caught my eye today – the US Army is putting an end to unrestricted blogging by its members. Loose lips sink ships and all that. I decided to dig deeper. Want to know EXACTLY how it’s going down on the front lines, from the very ...

02
Feb

Loskop Dam

You work hard during the week, and on the weekend all you want is a chance to chill out and relax, right? If a quick and easy getaway is what you want, and if you’re looking for a destination a stone’s throw from Johannesburg, then the Loskop Dam may just ...

02
Feb

Goodbye radio, hello podcast

It’s been 2 years since the New Oxford American Dictionary selected “podcast” as word of the year. The phrase was coined even before then, probably first emerging as a concept in 2000. Like other Web 2.0 phenomena such as blogging and social networking, podcasting has exploded into popular Internet culture, ...