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Ster Kinekor has implemented an easy way for movie goers to donate money to a charity.

When you book your ticket through one of their “self-help” machines using your credit card, just before the end of the transaction they ask you to donate money for a cause. You decide how much, and it gets added to your ticket bill.

Painless, easy and worthwhile. Well done to Ster Kinekor.

BTW, this kind of reminds me of the US tax return form where you are asked (at the end) if you would like to add $1 to your tax bill to directly lower the US deficit. One hand, could be very effective. On the other hand, what going to happen to the OTHER thousands of dollars you are ALREADY sending them?

This question has been making the rounds on the blogospere, so I thought I’d throw it out to you guys.

If the Internet vanished ie no more websites, blogs, email, etc what would you do? To what would you divert your time and efforts? New hobbies? More time with family? New career change? Climb a high mountain? Read/write books?

You think you are saving the earth by reading news online? You might be surprised. Mark Glaser in his Media Shift blog talks about the environmental impact of the media, and notes:

.. the Internet isn’t exactly solar-powered and eats up plenty of energy… the five leading search engines have about 2 million servers for a total of 600 megawatts of power consumption. When you add in hard drive power and air conditioning, the total energy usage for search engines hits 5 gigawatts — enough to power Las Vegas on a hot day, according to the article.
Journalist/blogger Nicholas Carr noted that 4,000 servers power the virtual world Second Life, and that there are an average of 10,000 to 15,000 avatars living there. He wanted to know if Second Life citizens ended up using up more energy than real-life people and found that the average avatar uses up 1,752 kilowatt hours per year — about the same amount used by the average Brazilian. “Avatars aren’t quite as intangible as they seem,” he concluded. “They don’t have bodies, but they do leave footprints.”

The top earning blogger/webmaster in the world made $3.6 MILLION last year. That’s according to the Paula’s list of Blogger and Webmaster salaries.

Paula is the first to admit that her research might be flawed, and the numbers are worked out by her, not provided by the bloggers/webmasters themselves, so there is plenty of room for error. Still – 3.6 MILLION ….. By the way, that money was mostly made from Adsense, on a dating site. That’s 10 grand a day.

Have a look at the list. it is not limited to bloggers only, but all the money seems to be made from advertising , so it does kind of apply to us :-) There are 60 people on the list. And if you want your name there I don’t think it is too difficult: number 60 only made just under $480 last year. Surely you can beat that ….