Who wants to be, a millionare! Bloggers in crisis – poverty and so much more

07Oct08

The other day whilst walking with my business partner, the one who lovingly refers to me as the Internet’s “miscreant”, I happened by chance on a profound idea, it’d been hiding amongst the arbitrary tweets and haphazard business related thoughts. Where is your money, you sneaky little fuckers! If you’re in the business of selling [...]

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Tags: povertea, taking the piss, vincenth

Rob Stokes wants the world to know something

30Sep08

Rob Stokes, founder and owner of online marketing company Quirk has something he wants to clear up. 
“For so many month I’ve been hearing rumours on the Internet that I am an evil genetically mutated super human with a vendetta against a short, cute little Asian man” said Stokes in an interview today. “I had no [...]

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Tags: Heroes, Quirk, Rob Stokes

Shaun Oakes not actually an Oke

29Sep08

Super blogger and officially “Cape Town’s favourite son”, Shaun Oakes has revealed that the character is in fact a “nom de plume” and more of a “social experiment”. 
Speaking from Polokwane, a repentant Jucinda Matabane admitted that it was all just “a big joke” and that she hoped that she hadn’t offended anyone with her thinly [...]

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Mandy Demon Crusher De Waal – top three least influential bloggers

29Sep08

Kneeling over her latest victims, who’d been torn into bite size pieces, she looked up to us and growled “that was numbers four and five on my fucking list”. “A..a…a..cool no problem Mandy, none at all..none at all”.
We’d arrived as Mandy had invited Beatmag for an interview and to help her construct one of her [...]

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Tags: dave, mandy, matthew, taking the piss

Rafiq The Guru Phillips.

28Sep08

Bio adopted and adapted from Quirk.biz :
Legend has it that Rafiq Phillips was conceived of and in the interweb. This self appointed SEM Guru is the love child of Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is said by his peer, that Rafiq has been the industry, in one way or another, long enough to [...]

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Simonb in traditional medicine debacle

28Sep08

Local Fring blogger, Simonb, has had to have his Muti login revoked due to what site owners describe as “excessive usage”.
Speaking to the media last night via Skype cast, Muti founder Neville Newey had the following to say: “At first everytime Simonb posted a link he suddenly got close to 4 extra votes for that [...]

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Tags: Muti, Neville Newey, Simonb