Category: Fire (Social)

I’ve recently come across a blog called The Size Issue, subtitled Blog dedicated to Supersized Media and Independent Media’s Issue with Size. As an employee of Independent Media with 2 working days left to go, now is a unique opportunity for me to respond 🙂 . The blogger in question, Ethnopunk, or David Robert Lewis,… Continue reading Big bad Independent Group, and the organisation versus the individual

Richard Heinberg will be in Cape Town, talking about ‘Peak Oil’. He’s been invited by SANE, and will be talking in Rondebosch on May 7. Full press release below. Richard Heinberg will speak on Oil, the Environment, the Economy, and Avoiding Catastrophe The South African New Economics Network (SANE) has taken the initiative of inviting… Continue reading Richard Heinberg talk on Peak Oil

The oil price, in dollar terms, has hit a record high. The main driving force behind the rise seems to be supply shortages. It’s inevitable that shortages will continue to worsen, as oil is a commodity in short supply, and the remaining supplies are more and more difficult to extract. Rapidly increasing demand from China… Continue reading Oil highs and the demise of the suburbs

Paging through the Mail & Guardian the other day, someone asked me whether I’d seen that Patricia had been in a porn movie. Patricia de Lille in a porn movie? Had she been fingered in the training of MDC operatives by the Zim government and this was an attempted smear? Was it something she did… Continue reading Patricia in porn shocker and the Daily Voice’s flight to the bottom

You’re probably wondering what the mighty, yet new Google news has in common with the mighty veteran AFP (Agence France Presse), and the embryonic Wikinews. Wikinews is starting to gain some momentum. At first, the news there was a late, and sometimes poorly-written, version of the mainstream news. But things are starting to pick up.… Continue reading Wikinews, Google News and AFP

Well, the secret of IOL’s departure from Newspaper House is out. We were moved to make way for a new tabloid called the Daily Voice. The new tabloid is apparently seen by Independent Newspapers as a spoiler. Something so trashy it won’t impact Argus sales, but enough to stir things up for the rival Sun… Continue reading New Cape Town tabloid – the Daily Voice.

Cellphone marketing seems to have undergone a change recently. Cellphones at first were a status symbol, something that only the supposed elite possessed. But thanks to good marketing, and of course the fact that they’re extremely useful, almost everyone who could afford one soon got one. As an article in the Christian Science Monitor eloquently… Continue reading Happiness is a new cellphone

Perhaps they’ve taken my advice from yesterday, but 20Twenty will soon be no more. My first glance at the mail to all their clients led me to believe they were closing down (and hence the slightly misleading heading for this post), but luckily it’s just the branding that will change. 20Twenty will get rebranded as… Continue reading 20Twenty no more

Well, the good news is the security guard at our offices has kept his job. I’m not quite sure what happened, whether the attorney spoke to the landlord, the landlord had a change of heart, all the positive energy spoke to him out of the ether, or perhaps even he read my blog. But the… Continue reading Power games

The landlord of the building where I work has just fired the security guard (technically he hasn’t renewed his contract). Apparently he has a tendency to hire a guard on contract for 3 months, then terminate the contract on very short notice (in this case Monday is the last day), and avoid paying UIF etc,… Continue reading Blood(y) landlords and slimy diamonds