Mike Stopforth

Two years ago, the term “podcast” didn’t exist. Today a Google search for the term renders 244,000,000 results. Despite its popularity amongst more active web users, podcasting remains a fairly alien concept for the average casual internet ‘surfer’. Together with blogs, wikis and other social web technologies, podcasts are helping to democratize [...]

Ever clicked on the ‘more’ link just above and to the right of Google’s search box?

It’s got to be the Web’s best kept secret. Behind the discreet little hyperlink lies Google’s veritable goldmine of products, services and offerings. Some of them you’ll be familiar with - Adsense, Gmail and Google Earth [...]

This is a photo of the ’smoking section’ in the Keg, Johannesburg International Airport. I think it’s a stroke of genius. In most restaurants, tucked away in some corner, smoking sections often resemble neglected herpetological exhibits. I’m not a smoker, but as a result of this I often feel sorry for our [...]

My family and I recently spent some time at a beachfront resort in Umhloti (Umdloti - there seem to be two official spellings), on the Kwazulu-Natal North Coast. We enjoyed being there out of season, and despite some dodgy weather, had a great time.
On our last evening there we decided to go out for [...]

I’ve just been interviewed via email for a major local magazine publication. These were the questions, and my answers. Thought you may enjoy them.
What is a blog?
Blogs (short for web logs) are websites that are published by ordinary people - people like you and I who DON’T have Computer Science degrees or vast [...]

Perhaps you own one. I don’t. I barely write anymore – most of my thoughts get hammered out on a keyboard or spoken directly into a digital recorder. But I’m intrigued. Not by the odd Moleskine-bearer strolling nonchalantly around Melville or Rosebank (I usually dismiss them as artsy-types), but rather by the [...]

I really enjoyed reading an article recently forwarded to me by Aiden called ‘Entertain. Inspire. Empower. How to speak a teen’s language, even if you’re not one.’ He found it at ChangeThis.com - a fascinating site that “is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing [...]