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Entries Tagged as 'General'

Springleap competition and SEO’s dark side..

March 30th, 2008 ·

Springleap, a locally based, recently launched site focussed on the design and selling of t-shirts, is running a competition where contestants have been challenged to get themselves to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) on a search for “Springleap“.
Not a bad idea from a springleap side of things. I do have an […]

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Tags: General · Marketing · Web

Government ninja moves.. Napoleon Dynamite.

February 13th, 2008 ·

Saw this from a friend’s note posted on facebook. Taken from the modern classic, Napoleon Dynamite..
An exchange between Don, the high school bully, and Napoleon.
Don: Hey Napoleon, did you wet the bed last night?
Napoleon Dynamite: Hey Don, did you take a dump in your bed last night?
Don: I could kick your butt Napoleon so I’d […]

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Friday’s Jargon Buster

February 8th, 2008 ·

Just got this spammy jargonated goodness from KAE.

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KAE believes that identifying where your organisation sits in the corporate growth cycle - and whether a period of future growth or consolidation is on the cards - offers a useful means of prioritising your core marketing insight activity and spend.
In our latest thinking, we have mapped […]

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Tags: General · Marketing

AOL Layoff video

February 1st, 2008 ·

What do you do on the day when you and your colleagues are all to be laid off? Make a music video of course!
(Password is “aollover“)
L’amour a la francaise from pyc on Vimeo.
Reader synopsis: “AOL office in Paris. starts with “to a lost love”. people show their affection for AOL. but in the end, it […]

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Broukrans River bridge as seen by Google Earth

January 30th, 2008 ·

Woops!

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Thursday scam

January 17th, 2008 ·

How’s this for a more direct (and forward) type of scam mail?
Dear Friend
Please make a hotel reservation for me and tell me the nearest airport to you and await for my arrival.This is a transaction of $11m (eleven million USD) from a genuine source and duly certified.It is my inheritance with full legal right.
I […]

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Quick South African beer alcohol / Kilojoules guide

December 20th, 2007 ·

Being the festive season, where one can consume lots of glorious beer, I thought i’d do a quick check on the nutritional info of the major players getting us all a little tipsy this december..
I’ve really only been able to find the Alcohol and Carbohydrates data on the brewer sites:
Brand / % alcohol / kJ/100ml
Castle […]

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Agencies should share more. Because sharing is caring.

December 7th, 2007 ·

My scattered friday afternoon thought goes like this:
One of the main responsibilities of an agency is to share ideas. Most agency websites are fairly flat affairs that either:
a - show off their trophy list,
b - show off their client list (no matter how small the piece of work was that they did for […]

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Plettenberg Bay storm damage. Spot the difference..

December 5th, 2007 ·

Here’s two pictures of Plettenberg Bay’s Lookout beach area. Can you spot the difference?

Plettenberg Bay placemark (.kmz) on Google Earth
Further reading (all from about 24/25th November):
Storm: 2 dead, 1 500 evacuated
Fleeing the floods
South Africa: Floods Swallow Plett Beach

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Cricket data and commentator idols: quick thoughts.

November 18th, 2007 ·

I’m watching the cricket thinking about commentators and their access to information.
I thought it would be a great tool for them (and therefore the viewers/listeners) if there was some kind of voice recognition system that “listened” to them talking and picked out words as they say them. These words are then searched for on a […]

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Tags: General · Social media