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In the dead of night, the Durban city centre is not for the faint-hearted. Like many CBDs around the world, criminals use the cover of darkness to operate and soft-targets – like tourists – are particularly vulnerable. But for one wonderful weekend a few months ago, the port city was one of the safest on […]

So after a great Currie Cup (always amazing to witness the transformation in the great cup when the Bokkies return) spirits are high in Bokland. And so too as — you’d expect — are expectations. After all, when it finally came together at the Fizzy Pop Dome, the Wallabies had no clue what hit them […]

A new Twitter-based advertising service called Magpie was recently launched, giving Twitter users the opportunity to earn money in return for allowing adverts to be posted in their Twitter stream between updates. So if someone you follow has signed up to Magpie, these ads will appear in your timeline, under their username, but prefaced with […]

Submitted by Lionel Faull Sitting here in my ivory tower, the toiling masses only barely distinguishable several hundred feet below, I open a slightly scuffed copy of The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick. Aaah, this is the life, I murmur contentedly to myself, as I raise both my legs from the plushly carpeted floor and […]

Here comes trouble — big trouble — as in, “Come in Houston we have a problem.” You remember the Sports Indaba in Durban three weeks ago and then the brouhaha about the Springbok and who owns the trademark, which caught SA Rugby napping and which gave rise to such high-pitched shrill screaming from both sides? […]

Are you an online entrepreneur or developer, with enough ideas for online projects to keep you busy for …well, forever? Great. Pull up a chair and let me tell you about Business Beat. It’s a collaboration between the Innovation Hub, GIBS MBA program and IdeaBank (my company). The goal is to bring together people from […]

On October 28 2008, Google announced a huge development in the course of its work with books. It is potentially the biggest single development in the book industry since the founding of Amazon. As a result of a settlement agreement in a class action suit involving authors, publishers and libraries, which has been hanging over […]

I’ve often spoken to clients, colleagues and conferences about the “rule of thumb” in terms of community engagement. This could be engagement in a social network, a community content portal or an enterprise venture. It’s a little Jack Walshian in its approach, but serves to illustrate the point. * 70% just watch * 20% actually […]

Recently I have recruited for a National Sales Manager position at our company. I received many, many CVs from a vast range of excellent candidates – most with great track records: young, older, MBA grads and self-study and industries: banking, cars, telesales, pharmaceutical – you name it, but only a small handful from some form […]

(This post first appeared on my own blog, www.tonylankester.com) Every time you turn the television on these days you get more talking heads crunching numbers about the US Elections – whispering urgently about who is going to win which states and why. I’m feeling a little left out, so I thought I would do my […]

Much of the buzz at Frankfurt Book Fair this year was about ebooks, and particularly the impact that the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader have had on that part of the industry over the last year. According to IDPF spokesperson Michael Smith, ebook sales this year are up 53% in the US, and for August […]

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/Eleven.html No, the above is not from Julius Malema’s latest verbal palpitations. Neither is it an excerpt from Terror Lekota’s much talked about divorce papers. On a side note, it is laank […]