Why international TV drama is better

[Andrew Timm] Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in South Africa knows that this country has great stories to tell. And I’m not talking about rehashed apartheid guilt stuff. Just open a newspaper on any given day, listen to a conversation in a taxi, or to the callers on 702, and unlike New Zealand or Canada, where a flat tyre on a country road makes headline news, you will realise that we seem able to generate endless tales of human drama and intrigue.

[31 Aug 12:08]

The iPod’s second coming

[Anice Hassim] It's the start of a busy gadget season that usually kicks off with a frisson of excitement with a certain ‘fruit’ company's music product refreshes. Last week, Apple sent out invitations that simply have a guitar with an Apple logo replacing the soundhole on it, inviting the media to a Stevenote this Wednesday, 1 September 2010.

Comments [1] [30 Aug 12:46]

[Discovery Invest Leadership Summit] Knowledge on a silver platter

[Dale Imerman: @idale] Want to learn the secrets influential leaders are sharing about challenges facing the world economy, business, government and society? In a series of blog posts, I’ll serve you all the knowledge I got from the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit - on a silver platter.

[16 Aug 14:00]

[Discovery Invest Leadership Summit] Kick-off at press conference

[Dale Imerman: @idale] Some of the world’s leading business thinkers will bring South Africans their secrets and insights at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit on Wednesday, 11 August 2010, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. I’ll be there, too, thanks to Bizcommunity.com.

[10 Aug 19:10]

The mad world of advertising

[Franklin Ozekhome] Some people say they love advertising because of the ads they see on television, billboards and YouTube videos that generate mad buzz. Others see the glamorous side of the ad world – TV production shoots with models, launch parties with celebrities, Cannes Lions Festival showstoppers, and exclusive dinners at upscale restaurants with clients.

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Bottling the gees

[Marion Scher] Who would have believed that the main subject of conversation between middle-class white women over coffee mornings and dinner parties would be soccer? Who would have seen themselves grinning wildly and have an overwhelming urge to embrace total strangers spending their euros and dollars at our shopping malls? For the last month, the new national pastime became ‘go to malls, fan parks and stadiums to watch the tourists’...

Comments [1] [14 Jul 12:38]

The good comes with the bad

[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Like Paris Hilton, I had occasion to frequent a South African court house this past week. It might have been a simpler affair if I too had been nicked on the wrong side of a dagga cloud but, alas, I was paying a traffic fine for a lapsed car-licence disc.

Comments [2] [07 Jul 13:31]

BlackBerry writing – watch out

[Marion Scher] Ask any language purist and they’ll tell you how technology is affecting the English language – that is, watching it go down the tubes...

Comments [5] [05 Jul 11:57]

More musings on the iPhone 4

[Anice Hassim] What would happen if arm manufacturers really did turn their swords to ploughshares? I think we might get a company like Apple.

Comments [3] [25 Jun 12:54]

[Cannes Lions] What is a Cannes Lion worth?

[Damon Stapleton] CANNES, FRANCE: We are coming to the end of another Cannes. The big parties with small pieces of food. The champagne being consumed by ridiculously good-looking people. The sharks that are smiling at you but looking over your shoulder to see who is more important. And, of course, egos and insecurities that could destroy even the bravest fashion victim. These things are all true; however, there is another side.

Comments [1] [25 Jun 12:12]