I found this post on PokerAddict of a Royal Flush at World Series of Poker 2007, which is awesome.
The winners’ words – “This game is easy !”
Royal Flush at World Series of Poker 2007
WOW!
So you are trying to make some money with your blog, and you wanna show more ads to your readers, so their eyes could catch more ads.
Well, what I use sometimes is I use the <MORE> features like I’m doing at the end of this sentence(if your on the front page).
I’m quite upset with these SMS subscription services.
My one aunt, which is totally not TECH-literate, saw this cool baby singing on the TV and sent an SMS to receive a ringtone. After that she received a ringtone each day, costing her R10 per week. But she says that the advertisements did not say that it’s a subscription. Then she tried to STOP the service by sending STOP to the number to no avail. She then phoned me and I had to track down the company which runs the campaign. And when I tried to cancelled, it took them 2 weeks to cancel.
I personally never use/or am interested in any type of shortcode competition, subscription services or ringtones like this as I just know it’s a massive money making venture for doing nothing. These guys send you some low quality “content”and charge you an arm and a leg for it.
I found this website, which also makes one think about this industry. This example, uses the “You’ve won the world” method to get you to interact with their website, “Find the 3 differences”…. and afterwards it says enter your number and subscribe to win (which in small letter at the bottom of the screen indicates it is R30 / week).
I really thought that some type of legislation has already been implemented to protect the consumer with this type of advertising.
I lived in Krugersdorp all my life, which is on the far western side of Johannesburg.
When I got married I moved to Pretoria for a year, which was really awesome.
I then bought myself a house in Krugersdorp, as it is close to all our family and we just love the town.
Back in Krugersdorp, I found that some basic services was lacking, just a simple example the refuse removal sometimes would be 3 or 4 days late and quite alot of other headaches as well. All boiling down to management of the municipal structures and processes.
One example is the tennis courts in Krugersdorp-West ( a suburb of Krugersdorp ). The tennis courts is part of a whole residential block within the suburb dedicated to recreational activities. The block consists of olimpic size swimming pool, boxing club, bowls pitch, library, community hall and the tennis court.
Of all these facilities only the boxing club and library is in working order. The boxing club is hired by a private company that provides boxing lessons in the facilities.
The other facilities are infested(strong but it really looks that way) by squatters that live inside the building. The swimming pool does not have any water in and it is overwhelmed by long grass growing all over. This all due to the municipality not maintaining the facilities, and thus have seen the diminishing interest in the facilities and also the deterioration of the buildings.
I have recently given the DA representative in the area a call to find out what is happening, and if something could be done about it, and apparently he and some church groups have been investigating possibilities to get the facilities back into shape. They tried to get an appointment with the Mogale City mayor, but he always tries to duck and dive meetings, always at some indaba,lunch or at a conference.
I also tried contacting other party representatives like the ANC but they just let everything fall on death ears, their response was just, they don’t have any representative in the area so at the end they actually just don’t want anything to do with the area.
I’ve thought about a few plans to get the facilities up and running again, and thought the best one to start with would be the tennis courts. As you can see from these pictures, there are squatters living in the clubhouse, so that is the first problem, and that would be the biggest challenge, as you can see on this picture, it looks like the people have a baby as well looking at the baby bath standing outside.
What I am considering is drawing up a plan of action and then approaching the appropriate persons to find out what to do regarding the squatters first.
After that if the municipality does not want to have anything to do with it, as all they have to do is cut the grass and maintain the facilities.
Some of you guys would remember the roar when BlogMad just launched, developed and designed by a local web movement.
A sleaky designed blog traffic exchange portal where there’s a ratio of 1:1, so for each blog you read you get 1 visit. I used to be quite active in the beginning but eventually I started using it less and less. I actually still have one of the TextLink banner on this blog, so I guess I’ll have to remove it now.
Well, BlogMad have decided that they are going to close down. In their creators’ blog, they state that they are closing down, but do not abbreviate any reasons, my sneaky suspicion is that they intented from the start to build it up and sell at a profit(if they get buyers before shutdown).
It seems that aggregators like Afrigator, Technorati and many other are slowly starting to take all the lime light instead of the old blog trafficking sites.
Pity to see them go.
Google announced that they will be shutting down Lively on 31 December.
They have unfortunately not given any reason for shutting it down though. This has also seen some communities protesting quite alot around this decision.
I quite enjoyed the initiative shown and was quite an exciting offering, quite a pity.