Yes, you can timesheet the fuzball

[Sarah Britten] "Great ideas don't keep office hours," as the ad for Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank used to say. It flighted at around the time I arrived at Hunts some time in the Precambrian, but the insight is just as valid today. Great ideas really don't keep office hours, which causes havoc with timesheets. Read more >>

Festival of the retold film comes to Johannesburg

Based on an idea by Bernd Terstegge and realized by Axel Ganz in 1999, Total Recall is a project which is dedicated to the retelling of films - live and in front of an audience. South Africans can now take part in such a festival on 20 April 2012 at Bassline, Newtown, Johannesburg at 5.30pm. Read more >>

Bohemian project management for the digital agency

[Reghardt Marais] Bohemian project management might sound like the strangest oxymoron since 'friendly fire', but bear with me for a minute. Bohemian is all about the disregard of conventional rules, standards and behaviours, while project management is governed by the rules and guidelines set by others. But is it really? Read more >>

South Africans learn from Hollywood Steadicam inventor

Dredd, an upcoming graphic novel blockbuster adaptation shot in South Africa, sponsored a trip to America for Georgia Court, Naguib Fredericks and Siyabonga Jim to meet Garrett Brown, the Oscar and Emmy-winning inventor of the Steadicam. Kalahari Pictures organised the trip. Read more >>

Andy Rice keynote speaker at SAMRA conference

Andy Rice, a professional brand and marketing strategist and consultant, will open the SAMRA conference with a keynote address, joining three other keynote speakers, 16 research presentations and 11 Q&A sessions on 16-17 August 2012 at the Rosebank Crowne Plaza in Johannesburg. Read more >>

MediaCom wins Telkom account

Following a rigorous procurement process that began in November 2011, Telkom announced late last week the appointment of MediaCom, as its new media strategy, buying and planning agency for the next three years. Read more >>

Kagiso New Media launches new celebrity website

Kagiso New Media have launched a website, Zalebs celebrity channel, by branching it out of its former Howzit MSN platform. Lauren Lee Atkinson has been appointed as the editor of the website and leads a team of staff writers, who generate fresh news and pictures every day. Read more >>

Bronx Shoes SA unveils interactive beard growing billboard

As a way to amuse and interact with its local customers, Bronx Men's Shoes SA early last week unveiled an interactive beard growing billboard in Cape Town. Read more >>

Cannes Lions, Haymarket in new venture

LONDON, UK: Lions Festivals, organisers of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and Haymarket Media have announced an agreement in principle to extend their joint venture. The partnership currently runs Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity and the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Festival (AMEs), and will now also include the Digital Media Awards for Asia. Read more >>

Festival of Media: Showcase Theatre returns

MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND: The organisers have announced the return of the Showcase Theatre in which various partners will take to the stage to present thought-provoking sessions as part of the overall conference. Read more >>

Broadside for Patel's 'competition meddling'

[Amanda Visser] In a rare public outburst, David Lewis, former chairman of the Competition Tribunal, severely criticised the government, especially Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel, for using the competition authorities to leverage concessions out of international investors. Read more >>

DA's complaints against info bill 'absurd'

[Paul Vecchiatto] African National Congress Chief Whip Moloto Mothapo has labelled the Democratic Alliance's (DA) complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over adverts in support of the Protection of State Information Bill "absurd and ridiculous". Read more >>

The sexiest Mini ever made

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] For the first time in its long history the iconic Mini has chopped off its roof, thrown away its back seats, acquired a fold-down cloth top and adopted the name of Roadster - a metamorphosis which has turned a cute and trendy city car into a fully-fledged little sports car. Read more >>

Lonrho and easyGroup to open first easyHotel in Africa

Lonrho and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyHotel Group will open their first hotel in Johannesburg later this year. Created from the conversion of the former Stuttafords department store building, the 120-bedroom budget hotel on three floors is expected to receive guests in November 2012. Read more >>

Titanic rules, now and for ever

[Daniel Dercksen] James Cameron has done it again! The force behind Terminator, Titanic and Avatar, writer-director and producer James Cameron has achieved an impossible dream: perfecting the art of 3D conversion in bringing Titanic to the big screen in all its glory - and unlike anything you have ever seen before. Read more >>

Sweet Thing theme chosen for OppiKoppi 18

Sweet Thing has been chosen as the theme for OppiKoppi 18, inspired by a Van Morrison Song, which has been covered by The Waterboys. Read more >>