Anyway, this is how it works: you want to go all old school and retro and send someone a snail mail, but you’re too lazy to actually go to the post office, buy the stamps, lick the stamps and then, your aching tired handwriting arm, put the letter in the post box yourself. And don’t even get you started on the dramas of trying to find an actual envelope! Anyway, why would you when you’ve got The Mail Monster to do it all for you.

Fortunately, some clever web techies have lazy surfers like me sussed and have come up with an alternative to sites promising to keep my pulse on the buzz of what’s happening on the web, and then bombarding me with a constant stream of nothing even vaguely interesting. Like SwingVine.

Google will launch an SA version of its popular Street View service. In the coming weeks Google, using Toyota Prius models, will begin driving around the country, taking photographs of locations, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban.

Wolfram Alpha has been hailed as a “computational knowledge engine” by British founder Stephen Wolfram (possibly a geek himself?), which in normal person speak means it’s an answer-engine that uses an actual “curated knowledge base of data” (okay, that’s kinda nerdy speak but you know what we mean) – more than 10 trillion pieces of data and over 50 000 algorithms – rather than rounding up websites based on keywords, to give you answers.

So, on a recent procrastination-inspired Google, we came across a very average, but fun, new way to procrastinate called ‘My Life is Average’ As the good people at TechCrunch.com call it “the service Twitter was meant to be.”

All quite nice and soothing for the stressed out designer… but most of us are just ordinary human beings who need to, like, eat. Which means we need to earn money. Which means we need to work most days, let alone take an entire year off ‘refreshing’ our design ideas. Which means we need to find our inspiration, design or otherwise, someplace other than an infinity pool in Bali.

Another bite sized but thought provoking talk courtesy of TED. In this 3 minute slot social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than the story we’ll tell about it later.

Flemish commercial television station VTM used a creative Flashmob approach to launch their newest reality television program “Op zoek naar Maria” which has been launched to find an actress to play the leading role of Maria in the musical version of The Sound of Music.

The social web is all about communities…. users generating content, sharing content; where personal recommendation is king and where users get involved and actively create.

It’s sadly the last week of the campaign and therefore the last chance to show off your soccer skills to stand a chance to win the amazing Mecer Graphite Cosmos Gaming PC.