REPRESENT has RSS – U should have it too!
So you want to keep in touch with what’s going on all the time? You like to be the first to know the news? You don’t always have time to surf the net? BUT you like to be on top of technology and keep up to date with what’s going down on the information superhighway? Answer this: Would you like information from REPRESENT to come to your inbox everytime we update but not to bomba…rd your email inbox with newsletters ‘coz you’re spammed already? Is there a sports website you want to keep up to date with so you’re the first to know when the team for Saturday’s match has been announced? Do you like to hear from BBC news everyday so you know what’s going on in the World News? If you answered YES – then YOU NEED RSS … the revolutionary content driver. We’re gonna tell you what it is and how to get it. It’s really easy and anyone that’s a web freak should have it already. Don’t forget REPRESENT told you first. RSS is one of the most popular information sharing systems on the internet It stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary and “is a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content.” Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. “ So in other words – instead of receiving news-letters, you get mini-content summaries from your favourite website everytime they update and you can decide whether or not you want to visit the site for the full article. It’s really useful if there are certain topics, blogs or websites that you are passionate about and that update their content regularly. To receive RSS feeds you need to use a newsreader – this is either a standalone software program, many of which you can dowload for free, or you can use a web-based reader, such as those now integrated with myyahoo or mymsn. Our personal preference is a reader which integrates with Outlook because that’s where we spend most of our waking hours – we suggest the trial version of YOU SUBSCRIBE as it’s easy to install – but note that it is still on TRIAL and may not be free forever but there are plenty of others which are established such as RSS POPPER. It’s really easy to install and should take less than 10 minutes. If you’re behind a fire-wall you may have to ask your IT guy to help you do it or just use the web based newsreader . Instructions on how to get RSS feeds...
Super clever URBAN COMMUNICATION in Sydney, Oz
In this world of cut-throat marketing creative thinkers have to really think big in order to keep on churning out the next big idea in brand communication… This marketing concept would go down a storm in SA – any car companies QUICK and GENEROUS enough??? Come on car people… We offer to drive the first one around for you! It’s not often that you see a clever scheme where eve…rybody wins but Sydney-based mobile communication company KahDo has come up with a unique medium that brings advertisers and consumers together. More than just outdoor advertising, KahDo’s fleet of 100 branded Smart Cars are driven by real consumers, and aims to achieve advertising effectiveness through unexpectedness. The drivers are hand picked for their socially active, urban lifestyle. Kahdo recruits a select community of opinion leaders by offering them a fully maintained Smart car for a subsidised cost of AUD$35 (US$26) per week. In return for the subsidised car, exclusive product usage, free samples and invitations to special events, these influential 18 to 34 year old urban consumers agree to ambassador status and minimum usage levels of the cars that are wrapped in advertising. Telecommunications giant Nokia was the first to take to the streets of Australia’s two largest cities (Sydney and Melbourne) this week using the innovative, new marketing concept to reach young, urban consumers with unique messages about the brand. The KahDo Smart Cars are driven by carefully selected consumers, who are happy to drive a branded vehicle for only $35 per week. Each driver is selected through a process of demographic and psychographic testing to ensure they fit the profile of a ‘social influencer’. The cars will carry Nokia’s Music Goes Mobile messaging – reference to a dedicated Nokia website and platform designed to promote Nokia handsets and music to the youth market. CLICK HERE FOR THE KAHDO...
Ladies: Free your follicles free your mind!!
You know some ladies, always fussing and fighting with our hair – for those of us that change the colour and style regularly not only is it a form of creative expression but also the perfect way to chase away a blue moment. But the good news is that NATURAL is back. Cape Townian sista Janine tells us why she’s happy being nappy and just letting her hair go au natural! In other words…, ‘sista’s, lose that wig and weave – just celebrate being your hairy curly self! MARKETERS – pay attention!’. Six months ago I generally got gatvol of blow-drying my hair. It wasn’t some sort of spiritual conversion or an Oprah ‘aha!’ moment, just pragmatism. Who in their right minds blasts their follicles with 1400 watt power for one hour in a Cape Town summer? Actually, I know hundreds of women who do. I am no longer amongst their number. I have stopped fighting nature and accepted my nappy-haired state. I will never be a Pantene model, I will never be a flaxen-haired Barbie look-alike, and I refuse to fry my scalp in an attempt to be one. So here I am, curly haired and absolutely loving it! My mother hates it, but she’s from a generation where the kink in your hair (or lack thereof) determined your status in society. I’m from a this generation where the reverse is true – failing the pencil test seems to up one’s street cred & and let’s not forget – black is the new black! It’s not just about the greater acceptance I get at hip-hop shows and reggae nights; natural hair takes special care, but it’s a lot healthier than trying to beat the nappy into submission! Now, at the ripe young age of 21 I’ve had to learn to really take care of my hair, my real hair and not the pseudo-straight mess it was. And I’ve also learnt what an absolute hustle it is to find products that suit it – can the marketing people please come up with curl/:moisture stuff that LOOKS and SMELLS good? And that doesn’t make me look like a throwback to Lionel Richie’s Jerry Curl? I mean, there are shelves and shelves of everything from putty, wax, and gel for straight hair in Click’s, while less than half the space is designated for the euphemistically named “ethnic” hair – and about 3/4 of this is reserved for home straightening kits. I’m no marketing guru and I don’t have stats to back my argument up, but I’ve got eyes in my head and I can see more young women are opting for...
And still the dodgy emails keep on coming
Ahhh yes, another classic, this time from Mrs Jane Uwaoma from Cote d’Ivoire. A poignant extract: “Please always be prayerful all through your life.Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.” For more of these dodgy email’s stemming from Af…rica see CHEATERS.LOOTERS DONATION FOR THE LORD From: Mrs. Jane Uwaoma APEX MEDICAL CENTRE ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE 01 BP 4477 ABIDJAN 01, ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE Dearest in the Lord. I am the above name person from the Republic Of Sierra Leone. I am married to Dr Theophilus Uwaoma who worked with Sierra Leonian Embassy in South Africa for nine years before he died in the year 2001. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians and we lived happilly. when my late husband was alive he secured $3.7Million (Three Million,Seven hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) with financial institution here in Cote D’Ivoire. Presently, this money is still with the financial institution. But recently, my Doctor told me that from all the test conducted on my health, I am not going to last long, especially, due to my cancer and stroke. This have indeed put me into serious confussion. Having known my condition, I decided to donate this fund to churches or Christian Organization that will utilize this money specifically for the work of God . I want a church or individual that will use this money to fund churches, Orphanages, Widows, and the less priviledged ones. Also, the propagation of the work of God, building and maintaining the house of God through this money, is very important.The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this bold decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my late husband relatives are not Christians. I don’t want my husband’s hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers, for their own selfish interest and in an ungodly manner. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bossom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I am presently in one hospital here in Abidjan Called (Apex Medical Centre) receiving some treatment.As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of thef inancialinstitution in Ivory...
Those Chippendales got TanTan in a sweat…
Editista must admit that she finds this kind of thing gross… But reading TANTAN’s review, even she may be temped – well for the laugh anyway. Just kidding! Click here to go through to Computicket IMMEDIATELY.COMPUTICKET I always thought of male stripping as degrading, that I would have novelty fun if any and an “Ag Shame” reaction to… their antics. Not be turned on at all because I’m not attracted to people I pity. Loftily I considered this type of thing beneath me, men and g-strings being a definite no-no on my planet and I anticipated the shows would be funny in a ludicrous sort of way. Enter my first male strip show, the REAL Chippendales nogal! To my delighted surprise I’ve found that stripping can give men as much power as women. If done well of course, and this lot are the cream of the crop! Exquisite physiques, devious twinkles in the eyes, stage presence, great dancers with the exception of one who was merely competent. Hell they could even sing when they had to support David, the lead singer in the show. These men are very talented, BEYOND the obvious, singing popular music that had us up on our feet, some even up on their chairs, and with excellently choreographed dance moves worthy of any MTV music video. In the end the flesh flashing portion of the show was probably 30%, it was the waiting for those glimpses of flesh that made us scream and giggle and say utterly lewd things! I knew I was in trouble when I found myself standing in a puddle of alcohol shouting “Take it off! Take it off!” When the number of men at a show is so negligible that the women annexed their bathrooms and you have queues of women coming out of all loos, you can only be at a Chippendales show. Inside the ladies room during intermission one of the ladettes who looked like the owner of her own home hair salon casually warned a fellow punter to “Back off he’s mine!… I only have a year to live!” eliciting raucous giggles if there is such a thing. I don’t know which one of the Chippendales she was referring to but it pretty much summed up the level of primal lust all those boys awoke in us with their cleverly staged fantasies, hot bodies and red-hot dance moves. The show is such a finely thought out product, catering to every female taste and tapping into the most perennial female fantasies like James Bond, men in Navy dress uniforms (big time JAG baby!!), bad boys with motorcycles, doctors and...
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