Favourite South African logos: Part 3

This post is the third installment in a series, featuring my favourite South African logos. See Part 1 and Part 2. Here are the next 3:

Metro FM

Metro FM is the largest National Urban Commercial station in South Africa with around six million adult listeners tuning in from all across the … view full post

Media24.com meltdown

Sorry to all the Media24 employees that I know, I couldn’t resist ;)

Post 4am mixed bag (continued)

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If you’re in the business of printing t-shirts, please give me your details. I receive numerous unwanted requests for t-shirt printing (let alone design) and I have no idea why, because I’ve never offered this as a service or suggested that I do. Here’s my favourite one so far, which arrived … view full post

Blog-Off Competition

So my *cough* favourite Media24 group (News24.com and M-Web) held a Blog-Off Competition last month, offering cash prizes totalling R9000 for the most popular blogs based on popularity and strength of content. Maybe you were quick enough to get your blog entered – the competition had already closed to new entries before I’d even heard about it.

The winners … view full post

They’re at it again!

They’re at it again! Media24, website owner fight over ‘24′, via MyADSL:

Listed media group Naspers’ subsidiary Media24, which holds the group’s print and internet titles, has sent a letter to www.RENTALS24.co.za and sister company www.BONDS24.co.za, insisting that the websites stop using 24 in their company names.

But the websites’ owner, Christopher Riley, said

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I was that annoyingly loud drunk tosser on the bus

I woke up this morning, well, Sunday morning, with a raging headache and half-ingested chips (crisps) in the back of my mouth. Charming, I know. And enough memories to realise that I was that annoyingly loud drunk tosser on the bus home that every sober person hates.

Saturday night was BIG – we tore up The Swan to say farewell … view full post

M-Net On Demand

Very little bugs me more than the ignorant misapplication of technology, especially when a large content provider with a recently-acquired global audience is concerned. Don’t think I wouldn’t have picked up on the fact that M-Net’s new M-Net On Demand offering, an Internet Broadband service, has several flaws that render it completely unacceptable to … view full post

Happy Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is upon us once again. Happy VDAY everybody, spread the love, send an ecard, etc. blah blah. ;)

More news from Johan is that Business Report have written an article about his … view full post

Host24: 1 – M-Web: 0

Johan SMSed me to check out the ITWeb article of his nobodyowns24.com fight I posted about two weeks ago:

M-Web in 24.com domain tug of war

The 24.com domain name is at the centre of a bitter wrangle between M-Web and a little known Pretoria-based Internet service provider.

Host24.com has been running for the past

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