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A Day of Twitter in South Africa

By 6000 | 6000 | February 25, 2010

There have always been a lot of discussions about the use of social media service twitter in South Africa. Apparently allegedly, there are those who tweet too much, over-utilising and polluting the service; those under-utilisers who tweet too little. Then there are the ones that use it for work – the creative types, the geeks, the [...]

Mjölka e-kon!

By 6000 | 6000 | February 15, 2010

Swedish website fun ahoy! Mjölka e-kon! Har du mjölkat en kossa på gammalt hederligt vis någon gang? Om inte, är det dags nu. Ta tag i spenarna och tävla om fina priser. Ah – those zany Swedes! They gave the world ABBA, sing-song accents and beautiful women with blonde hair and blue eyes. And now they’ve taken it one step further with [...]

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Angry People in Local Newspapers

By 6000 | 6000 | January 18, 2010

It’s not something that I have seen here in South Africa, but it’s commonplace in the UK to have the local rag come and investigate some local news issue and bring a photographer who will take a relevant picture for the story. And, more often than not, the protagonist will feature in said photograph – posing [...]

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Nowt

By 6000 | 6000 | December 26, 2009

Nowt here from me this evening as I am watching the footy and having an early night. And since there’s not much to look at here, why not go and have a look at some everyday items that resemble wildfowl? You can find anything on the internet. Anything. And most of it via here.

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What side of the road?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 22, 2009

Ever wanted to know what side of the road they drive on in… Burkina Faso? Of course you have. It’s one of those questions that comes up at virtually every single dinner party, isn’t it? But it’s also one that no-one seems to definitively know the answer to, prompting discussions at dinner and palaver at pub quizzes. No longer, [...]

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