Naspers Ltd., Africa’s largest media company, plans to cut 10 percent to 20 percent of the jobs at its South Africa newspaper unit as advertising slumps, according to three company employees. Executives briefed workers last week on possible job cuts, according to the three, who declined to be identified because the details aren’t public. …
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Naspers possibly cutting up to 20% of South Africa staff
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The rand is failing, I got my wish?
http://imod.co.za/index.php/2008/12/02/the-rand-is-failing-i-got-my-wish/Eeeek, the other day I mentioned that if the rand fails, that I would be able to set a new Adsense record. At the time the rand was sitting on R10.07 and I needed it to reach R10.60 in order to break the record. Today, someone mentioned, the rand exchange rate to me and it’s currently sitting at R10.32 to the dollar and it’s moving around a great deal as I’ve been watching it closely. …
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SA Blog Survey - Correct Slide Released
http://imod.co.za/index.php/2008/12/02/sa-blog-survey-correct-slide-released/After a fairly heated discussion over the validity of the SA Blog Survey, I have just received a corrected slide from the statistics company. So, as you can see, 2.9% of bloggers are making over R3000 a month. I’m not going to go into a big discussion around this, if you’re interested in more information, click here. …
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Denford Magora's Zimbabwe Blog
http://denfordmagora.blogspot.comNaspers possibly cutting up to 20% of South Africa staff
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SA Blog Survey - RESULTS
http://www.nickvanderleek.com/2008/12/sa-blog-survey-results...Alliance, are in, giving a clearer picture of this group of ‘vocal locals' who publish their thoughts and opinions online, regularly read and post comments on other blogs, and meet other bloggers offline.While there has been some controversy over one particular slide of results, Bizcommunity.com spoke to qualitative research analyst Vincent Hofmann, also an avid blogger, whose overall impression is that it is a statistically valid body of research, implemented in a credible manner and delivered as such in a concise manner.
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Storage solutions
http://steven.macintyre.name/storage-solutions/So, I am planning to build my own book-shelves and desk solution for my study/office area and will hopefully start that at the end of the month. I have loads of space for it - so its fine. However, reading Imod, Chris posted this link, for a more modern storage solution, nice - but seriously not my style :)
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Shocking SA Blog Survey results
http://stii.co.za/blogging/shocking-sa-blog-survey-results/nitpicking
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Huh?
http://tracystokes.co.za/2008/12/huh/t take a mathematical genius to work that out. I know it’s got to be wrong because I earn more than R3000 a month from my blogging and I completed the survey. And I’m not the only one to question the results of the survey, Chris of iMod and Tertia of So Close have also made known that they participated in the survey, and both earn in excess of R3000 from their blogs. There has, as yet, been no comment from the survey organisers.
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Events | Startup Africa
http://www.startupafrica.comquestioning the accuracy of this survey ** UPDATE 2: A slide on the original presentation indicated that no bloggers earned above 3000, This figure is actually 2.9% and the slide has since been updated. Updated Slide
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My sneak preview of the SA bloggers survey
http://stii.co.za/blogging/my-sneak-preview-of-the-sa-blogge...View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: amatomu afrigator) Chris Mills was sent “Which city/town is closets to you?”: Justin was sent “How much money do you earn each month from blogging?”: Quirk was sent “Which of the following do you use to drive traffic to your blog?
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Twitter finds revenue model with Adsense?
http://www.firstmilliondollarhomepage.com/home/Internet/Twit...http://imod.co.za – Twitter is basically placing Adsense on many of the Google cached status messages - it’s still in its early stages, but they’re definitely looking for revenue now - good for them! I wonder if they’re making more than me ;)
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Denford Magora's Zimbabwe Blog
http://denfordmagora.blogspot.comSouth African petrol price down R1.61
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Es Tea Double Eye
http://stii.co.zaFriends Charl Norman Charl van Niekerk Chris Mills Chris Rawlinson Conrad Strydom Dave Duarte Efendi Kwok Jason Bagley Matthew Buckland Max Kaizen Michelle Clarke Quinton Parker Sass Schultz Vincent Maher
