Mercedes-Benz Service Excellence
I recently upgraded from a much-loved Audi A4 1.8T to my all-time dream car, a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. It’s not that I didn’t like the Audi, on the contrary on many levels it’s an easier, more comfortable car than the C63 – it has more headroom on the driver’s side, a softer ride and in [...]
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Movie Review: Lars And The Real Girl
What is normal? Two people walk past the same store, one stops and ogles a ‘gorgeous’ pair of jeans while the other sneers, “I’d never wear THAT!” He loves Slipknot and she loves Rihanna, both with the same intensity. A friend of mine eats bacon smothered in syrup… I can’t imagine anything worse. At the [...]
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The Company-Customer Pact
One of the more interesting people (and public speakers) I met at SXSW earlier this year was a chap by the name of Lane Becker (website and Twitter). Lane is one of the co-founders of Get Satisfaction – there’s plenty cool info on what Get Satisfaction does here. His presentation included a reference to a [...]
Read more →Help Save The Cape Town City Ballet
The Mother City’s very rad blogging community has rallied around the Cape Town City Ballet in it’s moment of dire need. Sue Rutherford and friends have put together a website and campaign to encourage people like you and I to give a little bit towards saving the arts in Cape Town. We are appealing to [...]
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I Am A Racist – Confessions Of A Diseased Gen X-er
Yes, you heard me right. I am a racist. And I venture to suggest that you might be too, if you’re honest with yourself about it. Recent events in South Africa have, to borrow Jenny Crwys-Williams of Talk Radio 702′s phrase, “lanced a boil” filled with putrid racist muck, and the contents are spilling out [...]
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Movie Review: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints, a brainless but irresistably entertaining surprise, barely made it to video stores in 1999. That said, once it did word spread fast of the brothers MacManus – fast enough to turn it into a cult classic. Connor (Sean Patrick Flannery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus), cleverly blended with Billy Connolly, David [...]
Read more →I Don’t Get It – The Fuel Misconception
I wonder if this is a South African thing, or just a South African boomer thing that is rubbing off on younger generations, but I just DON’T get why we all think we have to rush to the garage to fill up with fuel at the first sign of a petrol price increase. I mean, [...]
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I Want A Theremin
Invented in 1919, apparently by mistake, the Theremin is “an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player.” I stumbled across one for the first time while watching a Bill Bailey performance – I think it’s one of the oddest, funniest sounding instruments on the planet. It just looks weird too. Like an [...]
Read more →Sights, Sounds And Sore Feet In New York City
It is no surprise, given my love for Johannesburg and all it’s diverse craziness, that New York stole my heart. I’m certainly not the most well-travelled human on the planet but I’ll go a long way before I find another place that inspires me like NYC. Note, I said ‘inspires’ and not ‘invigorates’. New York’s [...]
Read more →Back In Austin For SXSWi And The Social Business Summit
After a marathon 30 hour transit from Jo’burg to Austin, the last few days have been spent acclimatising to a dry Austin that is starting to enjoy the first signs of Spring, and of course with it, the deluge of crazy people (70,000+) that descend on this small city for the SXSW music, film and [...]
Read more →Why Cerebra Is Moving Offices (Again)
It’s been a big four years. Cerebra has evolved from a one-man consulting show to a full-service social media agency boasting a client list that includes Samsung Mobile, Toyota, Vodacom, eBucks, GIBS, Microsoft, Touchline and Cell C (and those are just the brands we’re engaged with right now). Our team is comprised of a young, [...]
Read more →WirelessG Now Offering In-Flight Wi-Fi In SA
The news is finally out and I’m as excited as a 5 year-old on Christmas eve! I’ve just received a press release from the fine folks at Emerging Media informing me that their client WirelessG will soon be offering in-flight wi-fi to sub-Saharan Africa. No more boring flights for me! Here is the release in [...]
Read more →I’m Published! (In Dion Chang’s 2010 Flux Trends Review)
Not only has Dion Chang forged an enviable reputation as one of South Africa’s leading fashion authorities but since breaking away from that industry and into trend forecasting and commentary a few years back, he and the brilliant team at Flux have set the benchmark in strategic thinking for the future of and in South [...]
Read more →The Bookmark Awards – Be Big In Digital
Earlier this year I wrote about how impressed I was with the RAMP foundation and their efforts regarding the 2009 Net Prophet conference. Considering that, and how blown away I was with the second annual Bookmark Awards evening held last night at Movida in Jozi, it’s clear that digital in South Africa is definitely growing [...]
Read more →Report Back On 27dinner Jozi Last Night
Last night marked the 44th iteration of the 27dinner social networking movement, held at FTV in Village Walk. With the dinners reaching unparalleled popularity (numbers peaking at 170+ on the attendance list at 27dinner.com), it is becoming increasingly challenging to organise and execute an event that now has some pretty high expectations around it in [...]
Read more →Stubble, Poker And Perceptions
Philips (and their PR company) are awesome. The consumer electronics brand has really rallied behind online advocates – fans of the brand – engaging them in innovative and exciting ways to promote positive brand sentiment. I have been invited to events ranging from an ‘iron-off’ (which I was pretty darn good at) to last night’s [...]
Read more →5 Tips For Becoming A Better Presenter
Over the past three years I have spent a great deal of time presenting to schools, church groups, NGO’s, government and more on the subjects of social and mobile media. Public speaking is a wonderful privilege and a fine art. I am not nearly the speaker I could be, but I have some thoughts I’d [...]
Read more →Barry Marshall – Remembering A Friend
Last week Thursday I heard that my good friend and mentor, Barry Marshall, had drowned while paddle-skiing in the sea in his hometown of Port Elizabeth. I received the news en route to Dullstroom for a lonely weekend retreat sans Macbook, so had a lot of time to think about things before writing about how [...]
Read more →Mobile Web Africa 2009 – Get Your Free Ticket!
Matthew Dawes is organising Mobile Web Africa 2009 on the 13 and 14 October at the Michelangelo, and has kindly offered a range of freebies and discounts for me to promote to you, the cream of South Africa’s technology crop! I will certainly be making an effort to attend – the speaker line-up and agenda [...]
Read more →9 Reasons To See District 9
Yep, I know – plenty of noise and hype and buzz around District 9 already. I’m not hopping on the bandwagon though – I am genuinely excited about what this movie means for Johannesburg, South Africa and South African cinema (which I’m sure you’ll agree could use a kick up the butt). My 9 reasons [...]
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