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Information hierarchy: The news pyramid in the social media age

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Credibility and trust are the key issues in today’s information(overload) age where news emanates from multiple sources, including sources other than journalists. The news is also real-time and unrelenting: there’s lots of it.
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South Africans to become most protected consumers in the world

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments

This post was written by Sikelelwa Gogo.
It’s a New Year and South Africa is abuzz with excitement about all the impending changes coming our way – everything from the Guatrain to the World Cup. These 2 events alone are going to have a huge impact on socio-economic landscape. General South Africans, and businesses alike [...]

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Customer Service Compliments to kick off 2010

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Most of us take a couple of days to dust away the cobwebs and get back into the swing of things after the festive season madness.  The same often applies for suppliers and retailers, so it’s great to read a stream of compliments on the getclosure! website about SA suppliers that are already on [...]

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How to buy 2010 World Cup tickets

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Mr Jason Bagley is doing good things over at Free Kick TV along with Mike Perk. In their latest episode they go through the ways and means to buy 2010 World Cup tickets. The episode is ten minutes long so be sure to load, buffer, pause, touch play!

How to buy tickets for the 2010 Soccer [...]

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2010 Soccer World Cup carbon emissions reach record high but SA ready with offset programme

January 19th, 2010 · No Comments

All attention was recently focused on the Copenhagen Climate Change summit and reducing carbon emissions and sustainability were on everyone’s mind. At present in South Africa, most of the focus is on the upcoming Soccer World Cup, but even here carbon emissions are not far from organisers’ thoughts. The FIFA 2010 World Cup Organising Committee, [...]

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Doctors Without Borders in Haiti: Why Couldn’t They Land?

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

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Ashtray Electric’s outstanding new music video

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

UPDATE:
Greg Fell from The African Attachment kindly mailed me to take responsibility for the incredible video above. So my suggestion is to get in touch with Greg and the team at The African Attachment if you have some money to spend and need some production work done. These guys have clearly earned their stripes. [...]

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Charl Schwartzel wins African Open

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Great to see Charl Schwartzel coming together to win the almost R11m first prize.
Also – congratulations to a friend of mine, Thomas Aiken for placing second to start the year off as well as he ended 2009. Another South African placed 3rd: Jbe’ Kruger. That makes it an SA 1st/2nd/3rd finish. Lovely.
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UK journalist is sensationalist, irrational and should be fired.

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

I just saw on Twitter that wezzo posted the following tweet: “UK TV star Victoria Smurfit shot at on ‘Kill a Tourist Day’ in South Africa” Seriosuly DailyMail?

I am as appalled and shocked by this article as he is. In fact I’ll go so far as to say that I am about to go UK [...]

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Black Porcelain is at it again and she is sublime

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

I have the incredible pleasure of knowing this fantastical majestic South African musician. She is sexy, ambitious and holy hell can she belt out a tune.
SA Rocks has featured her before with downloads available from her first EP, Green, Black Porcelain and we are proud to once again showcase this fantastic South African talent. [...]

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