Mike Stopforth

Kudo’s, as Matthew says, to the Sunday Times for boldly going where very few, if any online publishers have gone in SA. 

They’ve constructed (with the help of the folks at Rhodes University’s New Media Lab) an intuitive, simple and effective site that should attract plenty of attention with its 2010 leaning.
Only one question from [...]

IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano has announced what he calls an Innovation Jam - an attempt to come up with new business and product ideas by leveraging the collective intelligence of IBM’s 100,000-strong crowd. 
According to Yahoo! Business, IBM has “used these online brainstorming sessions to mine for new business opportunities in 2001, to exchange ideas [...]

I was given a PSP (Playstation Portable for the technologically challenged) yesterday - lucky me - and I’m pleased to report that my gadget repository is now almost complete. Just eyeing out a new cellphone, but that can wait. A month or so.
Problem is, it came minus a battery charger. I learnt [...]

Miguel and Rafiq continue to suprise me with great references and exciting new content.  They are explorers unparalleled.  One such recent addition to my reading list is a post entitled The Sudden School of Zen: The Essence of Business Blogging taken from Stowe Boyd’s Freshbooks Blog (as an aside, this blog has to be one [...]

‘Scuse the techie post, but if you’re a WordPress user (that is, if your blog is built on the WordPress platform, like mine), you may want to check out Matt’s announcement.
Some highlights of the latest version:
* Security fixes
* Over 50 bug fixes
And that’s about it. Lovely.

I got a really cool surprise travelling back on the plane from Cape Town last week. I was sifting through the content on my iPod and suddenly, somewhere between Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, appeared the name ‘Ravi Naidoo‘.
Now I’ve spoken about Ravi in this blog before, but [...]

Joshua Schachter once sent me an email. At the time, I had no idea who he was – his response had come from a request I’d sent to the del.icio.us ‘support team’. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, I needed some help figuring out how to use it (being new to the concept) [...]

* This article was published at the Biz-Community portal on the 8 August 2006 [Link].
I’m sure there are plenty of you out there that, like me, hate jargon. Jargon alienates people. It generally makes those that are ‘insiders’ feel they’re pretty smart, and those that are ‘outsiders’ feel pretty stupid.
So [...]

Jason Calcanis is a smart dude.  In his quest to make the new Netscape the ultimate Digg killer, he’s offered top Diggers, Newsvine users, Reddit dudes and others the opportunity to become professional social bookmarkers, at $1000 a month for their efforts.
And it’s working. 
They’ve already hired 3 of the top 12 Diggers, the #1 [...]

* This article was originally published in my Citizen column on 4 Aug 2006 [Link].
If your home is blessed with humans crossing the chasm from childhood to adulthood and you have not yet heard of MXit, you’re not paying enough attention!
MXit is a clever piece of technology developed by local firm Clockspeed that allows its [...]