Imagine this modern-day scenario. We can even start this off with: once upon a recent time, a very small bunch of clever big people set up a scheme that made them a huge amount of money over many years. Then, in their greed to make even more money than reasonably could be expected, they overextended […]
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 inSport
China looks forward to making its mark
As the date of the Beijing Olympics draws nearer, the buzz around the Games is increasing. Events of such magnitude will have some problems. As is the custom nowadays the media seems to be focusing predominantly on the controversial bits during the lead up to the sports festival. The IOC is meeting trying to address […]
Posted inLifestyle
On discovering Mongolian pop music
It is seldom that Mongolia makes the news headlines but it did at the beginning of July. A rare republic in their part of the woods with Russia and China as neighbours, Mongolia’s people protested against alleged vote rigging forcing the President to declare a state of emergency. I knew so little about Mongolia, I […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Obama trips in Germany
The Obama road-show is building up to quite an event. It would come as no surprise if one were to discover that a Hollywood director had a hand in the staging of the show. A shot of the air force plane landing in Berlin, suitably adorned with Obama’s logo, made a statement; never mind the […]
Posted inNews/Politics
The French trying to lift the veil
It’s a rare occasion when a news headlinee in the New York Times catches my eye. With so much coverage on the war on Iran (not a typo) or Obama’s road show which the Germans are not that happy with, ones eyes tend to glaze over. Then there are copious reports on McCain’s latest statements […]
Posted inBusiness
Have you been flogging a dead horse lately?
This really funny bit of Western Wisdom popped up in one of my social bookmarking collections. It’s all about this old wisdom that says when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, this article says that in business or in life generally we often try a myriad […]
Posted inTech
Do marketers understand the power of the mobile phone?
Did you know that mobile is considered to be the seventh mass medium? In an excellent article on Communities-dominate, the argument is made emphatically. Here are some of the points. These are the current mass media:- print, music recordings, movies, radio, TV and computer based internet. The mobile phone, at number seven, has a huge […]
Posted inTech
Social networking shows very high intellectual levels … or does it?
Should you ever wonder what the intellectual capacity of social-networking contributors and participants would be, then consider this. A picture of an anteater garnered 2 345 diggs, or votes, and 172 comments, within a matter of 23 hours and 24 minutes. In other words, the groundswell of opinion towards a picture of an anteater with a […]
Posted inGeneral
And the poor shall forevermore be downtrodden
Question: what is it about governments, big business, institutions, non–profits, charities etc that they want to keep the poor, poor? Alright, as generalisations go, this one is one of my better ones. Two articles that made me think this appeared in the media today. The first one was in the Independent and discussed the farming […]
Posted inNews/Politics
People in pain — please help
What is it about the situation in Zimbabwe that has produced one of the most severe cases of stick-your-head-in-the-sand-itis that one can imagine? Watching a video on the online New York Times on the refugees streaming into South Africa got me into such a state that tears were running down my cheeks. Of course, as […]
Posted inTech
Fun toys or maybe the next big technology thing
Watching what my younger daughter gets up to in geekland is always interesting. She is one of the early adopters of digital technology. Thanks to her, I have been a Twitter member since January 2007, months after she had joined, of course, and had a page on Facebook before most other old-timers. An iPhone made […]
Posted inGeneral
Equal rights for women still a pipe dream
An article on BBC News online caught my eye. It dealt with the bias that women face worldwide. In a UN-commissioned report the findings were that women are discriminated against in almost every country around the world. The report was compiled by Fareda Banda, a Zimbabwean-born law professor based in London. In itself this was […]