Wildlife Photographer of the year
The South African Museum, known as ‘Iziko’, situated in 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town is the oldest and largest museum on the sub-continent. From their website: ‘Iziko’ is an isiXhosa word, meaning “a hearth”. Since the hearth of a typical African hut usually occupies the central space, Iziko symbolises both a hub of cultural …View Full Post
SA Blog Awards 2008 – Behind the scenes video
I posted some creative thoughts a few weeks ago regarding the SA Blog Awards announcement. After battling with the deteriorating light and noise from the nearby traffic, I decided to edit a shorter video with some of the more interesting visuals and interviews from behind the scenes. You can read all about the announcement and …View Full Post
It's Business Time
It’s 2008, the start of a new year and the start of what promises to be a successful business year. For those of you who haven’t seen or heard Flight of the Conchords, do yourself a favor and watch this. You’ll love it. [link]
SA Blog Awards – Some creative thoughts
The SA Blog Awards are around the corner and personally I’m looking forward to taking part in the process (voting that is, this blog is no where near a nomination process) and seeing the outcome. Miguel has posted info on the awards here, including an updated twitter account ‘sablogawards’ for those who can’t make it. …View Full Post
Marketing Lingo
A friend of mine forwarded me this via Scott Adams’ brilliant Dilbert blog. It reminds me how important it is to question marketing slogans, pay off lines and any other mumbo jumbo that forms part of the marketing mix. See beauty products, viagra spam and Chinese toys for reference.
Tumblr – The multimedia twitter?
I’m not much of a fan of twitter. Quite honestly I don’t see the point. But it seems some of the bloggers I’ve been following use it regularly and find it effective. I remember thinking that a full scale multimedia microblogging platform might eclipse twitter, as the logical extension would be to open up multiple …View Full Post
