As the internet morphed from Web 1.0 — oh wait there was no Web 1.0 — to Web 2.0 and towards Web 3.0 it’s showing some interesting new trends. In particular social media is the hot topic to end all hot topics at the moment. That’s where it’s all at, isn’t it? One would be […]
Anja Merret
Anja Merret lives in Brighton, United Kingdom, having moved across from South Africa a while ago. She started a blog at the beginning of 2007 and is using it to try to find out everything important about page ranks, traffic and all things internet-marketing related.
Her soap-box material is the war in Iraq and anything that causes innocent people to get hurt. She also loves tech stuff, as an amateur only, and considers herself a Silver Surfer Gadget Girl Geek. Huh? Her musings may be found on http://www.anjamerret.com.
She has recently started a new venture, offering marketing advice to newbie business folk. It's especially for those who by necessity find themselves self-employed. Read more at: http://www.marketingfundi.com
Posted inTech
The Presence Builder: Be careful how you present yourself online
This is the first of a few articles that will provide some advice on how to go about building your presence online. This Presence Builder will advise on such things as why your avatar choice is important, why your online name must be picked with caution to what you vote for on social networking sites, […]
Posted inGeneral
Film studios exploit child actors in Slumdog Millionaire
So here’s the scoop. Slumdog Millionaire is a movie about kids growing up in a slum in India and how one of them makes it against all odds in an Indian equivalent of Who wants to be a Millionaire reality TV quiz show. The film has taken just over $89-million in North America by February […]
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Bob celebrates 85 years
A Times Online article on Robert Mugabe’s little 85th birthday party makes for interesting reading. A veritable feast in the land of famine is planned for this auspicious event. Lobster, Moët & Chandon, prawns and definitely no maize meal. Just as an aside any brand that associates itself, by supplying its goods, with this event […]
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Catholic Church goes retrograde
Religion is not something I usually write about, mainly because I don’t want to offend anybody. It is after all everybody’s choice as to how they nurture their soul. But the Catholic Church’s latest political manoeuvres have gotten to me. Religion is one of those things many people can’t decide, or at least I can’t, […]
Posted inBusiness
What can we learn from Nollywood?
Ever heard of Nollywood? Sure you will have heard of Hollywood and more recently have been introduced to Bollywood, India’s film industry. Nollywood? That’s Nigeria’s film industry, which boasts an annual production of about 2 000 films making this a rather respectable $500-million industry. What’s even more fascinating is the fact that these films are made […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Endless tit for tat in the Middle East
There was a horribly sad story in the UK recently about a young woman who had a minor accident in her car just before a railway level crossing. Due to the ice her car skidded onto the rail tracks as the booms went down. She got hit by the train as she was frantically trying […]
Posted inLifestyle, Media
A Digital Concert Hall
It’s been a really long time since I’ve been bowled over by technology. And I must say that this time around it’s not really the tech stuff that floored me and got me doing the OMG thing. It’s the use of existing technology that got me jumping up and down. It’s not actually even innovative […]
Posted inBusiness, Tech
Making money on the web
It seems that effective monetising of websites may still be a hit and miss affair. In an interesting article on Brand Republic the discussion is about a video site called Hulu. According to projected ad revenue figures Hulu will be earning as much if not more advertising revenue in 2009 than YouTube will. What is […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Are we being brainwashed into constant panic?
An interesting article by Terence Blacker in the Independent recently caught my eye. He maintained that we are living in the Great Age of Panic. Without being able to pinpoint why this would be he suggests that we could be needing that sense of constant panic in order to feel alive. As much as I […]
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Foreign aid dished out for the purpose of buying weapons
A friend sent me a link to a site that discusses where US Foreign Aid goes to. And it was quite an eye-opener. But before I go there, I just want to share something I read a few years ago with respect to that little war in the Middle East called ‘Desert Storm‘. This little […]
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Hollywood has moved to Wall Street
Watching financial and news TV channels this morning, it is incredible to note another change in the slant of the newscasts. It’s an ongoing changing scene and would be really entertaining to observe if it weren’t about such a bad situation. During the past months the media has been reporting that the USA and UK […]