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Yesterday my wife phoned a local, small-ish pool company to request prices that we could compare to the much larger Penguin Pools before we make a decision regarding who is going to help us install the time consuming headache happy new addition to our little home. The conversation went something like… Wife: “Hi, I’d like [...]

Dave Duarte Marketing Geek – iCommons Partners With Bloggers Dave is helping iCommons come up with some innovative ideas to leverage the blogosphere for exposure and fundraising. Ain’t he clever? (tags: iCommons SouthAfrica blogging bloggers Summit DaveDuarte) stii.za.net » Blog Archive » The AMA WordPress plugin released Stii makes another mod to Tyler’s plugin (tags: [...]

stii.za.net » Blog Archive » The AAM plugin modified Stii adds to Tyler’s WP plugin (tags: WP plugin Muti Afrigator Amatomu wordpress) Last.fm Launches Video – Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age Next big thing? (tags: video music web2.0 lastfm last.fm internet mtv) Tectonic: ITWeb to pay bloggers for content Tectonic on [...]

Where mobile widgets come alive – easily « Goozeberry: For the Mobile Future 2.0 Angus talks about Widset – awesome new mobile phone app (tags: mobile nokia web2.0 widgets widset) Police Reservists Needed – can bloggers apply? « Goozeberry: For the Mobile Future 2.0 Here’s an idea for being proactive in the fight against crime [...]

Yay! Feedburner reports that Amplitude, the podcast that Dave Duarte and I publish irregularly with particularly bad sound quality and a distinct lack of a script, has enjoyed over 1000 downloads since we started it! Nifty! The podcast also enjoys over 100 regular subscribers. Let’s hope with our renewed focus on producing fun, regular content [...]

The lads (and lasses, I presume) at ThinkFree were kind enough to ship me a USB drive with a copy of ThinkFree office. ThinkFree has a free online collaborative office suite, which is great for small business who desire to move away from MS Office for whatever reason. The version I received on USB is [...]

27Dinner Cape Town Video on Aquila Online | A South African Blog Video montage of 27dinner (no. 4) by Aquila – very cool! (tags: 27dinner CapeTown socialnetworking SouthAfrica)

Even BL Ochman, respected US blogging maven and marketing guru, has taken on David Bullard after his rant about bloggers in the Sunday Times. Well done on going global, Dave! You’re learning all about blogging, and so quick. Piss off an A-lister and you could shoot to the top in no time!

Our latest, unedited, raw episode is up on Amplitude. Go check it out!

David Bullard has written an article for the Sunday Times titled Name and Shame Offensive Bloggers which has the SA blogosphere up in arms. Now, let me first say that some of the reactions to the column (see Nic and Vincent) are justified in the sense that it was a pretty scathing attack. However, all [...]