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This is a theory I’m hatching … Would appreciate some feedback. The premise: trying to look forward and predict what will happen in the adoption cycle of social media. It is, of course, only when we look forward, that we can invent truly differentiated and unique ideas. Its background thinking to this graph goes along […]

For those of you who don’t know, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and receive other users’ updates, known as tweets. Tweets can be seen as text messages which move between users’ computers rather than mobile phones. There are hundreds of thousands of twitter users around […]

Here then, after much sifting and research, are the playing times of South African rugby’s elite Super 14 group of the Cheetahs, Bulls, Sharks, Lions and Stormers and their total playing time for the 2007 Super 14 season, to offer a benchmark of whether South Africa is maximising the playing time of its asset base […]

The English national pastime — except when they are winning the odd Ashes series, of course — is in danger of become the international fashion accessory of the world’s wealthiest men. In the latest twist to a saga that is making Generations look rather bland, Newcastle United have now been linked with a possible takeover […]

With the latest round of 2010 qualifying matches underway around the planet, South Africa is firmly in the international spotlight as the hosts of the next World Cup. Our early exit from the 2010 African Cup of Nations tournament is a major blow for the country’s World Cup campaign, but bruised Bafana fans should take […]

ESPN among others are reporting that seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is set to return next year. Aged 37 in a couple of weeks’ time, Armstrong is reportedly going to be racing for the Astana team once again. How wise this is after a long lay off, only time will tell, but […]

Here we are a few days away from the Tri-Nations final with South Africa as spectators to the clash in Brisbane on Saturday between the All Blacks and Wallabies and all we read about in South Africa are sex, lies and video tape. I am tracking the Guinness Premiership taking place between 12 teams in […]

Submitted by Troy Thiel The recent homophobic writings of Jon Qwelane and the subsequent LGBT community reaction have highlighted many questions about where the borders of free speech lie and journalists’ responsibility regarding the effect of their words. With visible examples of hate crimes, this is an emotionally charged subject. Respectfully, I would, however, like […]

If it turns out that Springbok coach Peter de Villiers did get involved with a lady in a car park, which is being vehemently denied, then that is his own business, as far as I am concerned. Whatever sanctions need to be applied, if there is any merit in it, must come from his wife […]

Hylton Solomon remains a patriotic Zimbabwean, despite his experience of being jailed for “over-pricing” spaghetti in his Bulawayo grocery store. He also remains committed to helping keep Bulawayo’s 114-year-old Jewish community going, although today it is less than one-20th the size it was at its height. Solomon is an exception. Most Zimbabwean Jews have left […]

I switched to a picture of a crucifix with the anguished, dying Christ nailed to it in my PowerPoint presentation to my erudite audience at the University of Engineering and Science in Shanghai. “I also grew up in that boarding school with this image firmly planted in my subconscious.” I recited to my listeners the […]

Recently there have been a number of discussions/debates in the media on the role of ‘intellectuals’ in relation to politics, or more specifically, politicians. One of the things that gave rise to these discussions appears to have been the information, that African-American philosopher, Cornel West, has been acting in an advisory capacity to Democratic Party […]