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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 18, 2008, 11:13 am Get 15% discount on books All Thought Leader newsletter subscribers receive a 15% discount on books ordered from the Exclusive Books website. Simply go to the order form and use the Thought Leader promo code MGT1. Buy Books... Fresh design blogs by Bridget McNulty on March 18th, 2008 I'm always intensely jealous of people who can blog with pictures. Words come easily to me, but although I love beautiful images, they don't flow naturally from my fingertips. Here are a few of my favourite (really lovely) design blogs of the mome... Online millions: The advertising model by Eve Dmochowska on March 18th, 2008 Part one is here. You will probably never make millions from online advertising, no matter what type of website you run. However, if you are able to create a site and attract a reasonably sized and loyal audience, you can sell the site to a bigge... Andre Nel and Gert van Schalkwyk: A selection farce by Michael Trapido on March 18th, 2008 I don't know whether to laugh or cry. For months now I have been hammering South African selectors who even dared to breathe the word "quota", yet Andre Nel, a South African who would die for the cause, is being axed due to racism -- and if those sel... The arms deal: The defining spectre of our past decade in politics by Jonty Fisher on March 17th, 2008 The current transitional phase that's playing out within the ANC and, by consequence, in South Africa has led me -- along with most political commentators -- to look both back at the past decade in politics and governance and forward to our near-term... GAAP is so Web 0.0 by Llew Claasen on March 17th, 2008 I'm continually surprised at how much interest exists for the quarterly financial results of the online tech powerhouses such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, as if they're any indication of value created by the business during those three months... Shamefully homebound, the neighbours are having a field day by The Sumo on March 17th, 2008 What is it about us black people that makes us enjoy each other's failures so much? Maybe it is the human condition, but in my experience, which is limited to the predominantly black community (except for my Indian neighbour) in which I grew up, it s... The definition of fun by Bridget McNulty on March 17th, 2008 You think fun is only to be had by kids on merry-go-rounds, teenagers in dark, sweaty clubs and millionaires cruising the Caribbean in extremely long yachts? Think again! In the interests of scientific research (that just so happens to have no ... I (hope one day I can) wear what I like by Mandela Rhodes Scholars on March 17th, 2008 Submitted by Rumbi Goredema "Ain't I a woman?" -- Sojourner Truth A few weeks ago, Ncumisa Ngcukana was sexually assaulted at the Noord Street taxi rank because she was wearing a miniskirt. That's the official version, at least. In the d... (Mis-)understanding ubuntu: A reply by Dumisani Magadlela on March 16th, 2008 The concept of ubuntu has been bandied about quite freely and mostly carelessly by writers who associate the term with the language in which it often appears. Ubuntu is bigger, broader and deeper than its Nguni "appearance". I do not recall ever ... Coega and the Radiohead song by Reg Rumney on March 16th, 2008 Every time I drive through the upgraded stretch of road around the turn-off to the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), just before Port Elizabeth, a song floats unbidden into my head. The Coega IDZ is a multibillion-rand industrial developmen... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za