Mike Stopforth

Yes, there is some broken stuff on my site but I haven’t the time nor the tech inclination to fix right now. This is a plea for help - I need a plumber and while I’m at it, possibly an extreme makeover. Anybody want to make some spare change?
Mail me pleeeeeaaase.

Blogger and all-round nice person Kerry Somers has launched Ubuntunet - “a site dedicated to showcasing small business and professionals for visitors seeking shops and services in South Africa that are neither contained within a physical shopping mall nor large enough to warrant an expensive advertising budget”.

This is a cool niche - I get asked [...]

The latest addition to Cherryflava’s blog network is Jetstreaker - “a South African celebrity gossip magazine for the jetset elite”.
Designed by Damien du Toit, the site is world class and well written - a worthy addition to Jon’s subversive-quest-for-world-domination :).
Jon - how about organising some JS tee’s for purchase on the site? It’s a [...]

On Wednesday I wrote about an email I had received from a Pagleflakes employee (Tegan) that had felt a bit like spam. I wasn’t particulary pissed off about it, rather pointing to different marketing approaches and the fine line between proactivity and spam in the world of Web 2.0 uber-competitiveness.
It turns out [...]

I’m off to Grahamstown on 14 and 15 September to participate in Africa’s first Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging. Nifty!
It’s a phenomenal programme - well done to the guys at Rhodes University’s New Media Lab - and the speaker line up include the likes of Ethan Zuckerman, Alec Hogg, Matthew Buckland and Vincent [...]

A month ago multi-national media monolith Naspers announced the launch of 24.com.
From the press release:
In what is being heralded as the biggest online launch since the advent of the Internet in South Africa, Media24 has merged its digital arm with MWEB Studios, the division responsible for the development of web-based services, to create 24.com. Headed-up [...]

If I had the time, I would set one up. Not because I love Survivor (which I do), and not even because I love South Africa (which I do), but it would be a way to make some pocket change pretty quickly.

So, if YOU want to set up a Survivor South Africa [...]

Copy of spam an email I got from Pageflakes this morning:
Hi,
my name is Tegan and I am part of the Pageflakes team. I have visited your Blog and noticed that you offer a RSS subscription service to your users. May I suggest that you add the Pageflakes RSS subscription feature, too?
You can then use [...]

Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu

Collective Intelligence in South Africa 2.0!!
Stormhoek, the official Web 2.0 wine, has kindly offered to sponsor wine for the upcoming Geek Dinner to be help at Relish in Cape Town on the 30th August.
From the Geek Dinner Wiki:
It’s going to be an informal geeky-get-together, wine sponsored by Stormhoek (the web 2.0 wine, in [...]

I marvel at this web thing. I just discovered while browsing through TechMeme that Dan Farber is the latest blogger to comment on the deletion of the Enterprise 2.0 Wikipedia article I put up a week or two ago.
Now I’ve had my rant on the subject. I’m just keen to trace the events [...]