On Sunday my family took my mother on The Gautrain for her first ride. At 76, having lived her whole life in South Africa, it’s got to be one of those amazing achievements she possibly never expected to see? We went from Sandton to Rhodesfield Station and back. On the way there I sat with our youngest and during the journey got up to chat to the rest of the...

Of course this is old news to many, but in case you missed it: NEDBANK GROUP LIMITED ANNOUNCEMENT Nedbank Group Limited (“Nedbank Group”), the majority owned South African banking subsidiary of Old Mutual plc, released an announcement on SENS today. The following is the full text of Nedbank Group’s announcement: “Shareholders are referred to...

An article on MyBroadband caught my attention recently while doing some research. The story is about MTN installing it’s own methane powered generator. In an effort to increase savings for MTN through the development of a self-sustaining power supply initiative MTN has invested in a 2-megawatt (MW), methane-driven tri-generation plant, which is the first of its...

Got sent a link from Faaiez (twitter username : ) Very short article from The Los Angeles Times profiling some new games that require you to really engage your mind in order to play them. Engage as in, in order to move things you have to think them into action. Charlatans and con artists have laid claim to its power for centuries. In science fiction, Jedi knights...

I’m sure it started out as a great idea at CellC Marketing HQ? The mobile phone industry has a mostly terrible name when it comes to customer service. Lines drop all the time, prices cripple you, data crawls regularly and call centers frustrate whatever life you still have, right out of you. So it was a no-brainer to come up with a bold PR/Marketing angle of...

I mainly use two online apps to run the Twitter accounts I run. And I use these two because they do very different things. There are some things I need to do from time to time where the one trumps the other, and visa versa for other things. So there’s no getting rid of either of them. CoTweet (I do wish Co-Tweet had an iPhone app) HootSuite Anyway, a possibly...

A while back I wrote about new models for paying for content online. One of the new developments I wrote about was Flattr. It’s a ‘closed system’ that allows you to pay people for the content they produce, as long as they’re part of the Flattr system. I like the ethos behind their model, and I think it has great potential to begin to shift our...