Category Archives: in the news

When is a shark net not a shark net?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 1, 2012

Well, when it’s an EXCLUSION NET, obviously. Colour me educated by the sharkspotters website: Yesterday, 29 Feb 2012, the City of Cape Town issued a press release of a proposal to trial an exclusion net in Fish Hoek Bay (http://sharkspotters.org.za/media-release-city-to-consider-a-proposed-trial-installation-of-a-shark-exclusion-net-for-fish-hoek-beach). Almost immediately shark nets (as used in KwaZulu Natal) were confused with the proposal of [...]

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Max’s thoughts on Mandela’s death

By 6000 | 6000 | February 29, 2012

I read this in yesterday’s Cape Times, but couldn’t find it anywhere online until this morning. I’m reproducing it here in full because I feel that it’s a great read, bringing together a number of previously undocumented, yet actually fairly obvious ideas and notions around what will doubtless be a very emotional moment in time, and expressing [...]

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Sonic Notify: Mind. Blown.

By 6000 | 6000 | February 29, 2012

This is seventy-four different sorts of impressive. Sonic Notify is a flexible technology solution that presents a unique opportunity for content strategists focusing on proximity and live experience solutions. Their clients purchase a speaker, or a “beacon” (which come in multiple shapes and sizes) that send out high pitched audio signals inaudible to the human ear within [...]

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Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2012

Part – indeed much – of my journey home from work features the M5 and much of that journey is usually rather slow. It gives me a chance to have a look around at the fetid industrial heartland of Cape Town, before I head down into the leafier suburbs further south. As I’ve mentioned once [...]

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RIP Gregg Jevin

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2012

An interesting social media experiement or just a bit of fun? Both, I’d say. It all started off with this tweet from Michael Legge: Sad to say that Gregg Jevin, a man I just made up, has died. #RIPGreggJevin — Michael Legge (@michaellegge) February 24, 2012 Which resulted in a spectacular outpouring of faux sadness [...]

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