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  • 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 be everything you need. Neatly [...]

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 Earth
Anomaly
BBDO
BBH
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
DDB
EuroRSCG
Fallon
FCB
FoxP2
Grey
Joe Public
JWT
KingJames
Leo [...]

A frakkin’ travesty

The fact that JK Rowling made $300,000,000 in 2008 is astounding. Hurrah for her…hurrah hurrah. Mutter, mutter, mutter.
I’ll start working on the next killer series of novel that will put Stephenie Meyer in her vampire-romancing place.
Just need a good working title and a middle initial for my name.
The Half Light Prince of Twilight
By Anthony P. [...]

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 is effective, entertaining, interesting, profitable [...]

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 the Festive Season of 2007/2008.

http://hotcopy.co.za/newsletter/Issue3/Issue_3_2007_HTML_web.html

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 wheels of EVs. These motors [...]

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.

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