Mike Stopforth

Ok, I took a leap of faith and decided to move everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, online. Email, docs, calendar - and pretty much all with Google. Because I like Google.
Anyways.
It’s really embarrassing and furstrating trying to book appointments with clients on the phone and continually having to wait for Google [...]

We’ve had successes at BarCamp Cape Town and BarCamp Johannesburg. Now Edrich de Lange is organising the next instalment of the BarCamp movement in DURBS - YAY! Sun, surf and social software.
The lads look pretty organised and I think this’ll be a cracker. I want to encourage the Jozi lot [...]

How to get StumbledUpon
Great post from Pronet Advertising with advice on how to use Stumble Upon to increase traffic
(tags: StumbleUpon socialnetworking socialbookmarking web2.0)

Rhythm Records Online Music Store - South African Music MP3 Downloads and CDs
Online shop dedicated to South African music downloads. Still not comprehensive enough for me but a step in the right [...]

SlideShare is a social network-based hosting and sharing service for PowerPoint, Open Office and Keynote presentations. You can upload slideshows of up to 20 Mb, share them with a link or even embed them in your blog. Shows that are already on SlideShare can be tagged and commented on.
I uploaded the slideshow [...]

My friend Graeme Codrington is a Gary Larson fan. Few smart people aren’t Larson fans. The Far Side cartoonist has kept many a toilet-ridden geek entertained (or at least this geek when he’s toilet-ridden) with ingenious single panel illustrations and captions.
Recently Graeme got an email from his hero - wow! [...]

Jerry Bowles points to the launch of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, a “new research center whose goal to understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal problems.”
From the Center’s homepage:
While people have talked about [...]

Dennis McDonald on - Managing Technology - Using Technology to Bridge Generational and Other Gaps
Dennis with a nice aggregation of posts that seem to be pointing to tech helping to cross demographic divides
(tags: generations tech technology)

Enterprise Web 2.0 » Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0?
Jerry examines the business case for Enterprise 2.0
(tags: enterprise2.0 [...]

I recently put a list together for a client of my 10 recommendations for marketing / consumer-related blogs (there is a business in building custom rolled-up feeds for corporate clients - geeks take note). This is partly a reincarnation of that email. It also harkens back to a convo I had with Rich…! [...]

Was not a good day for the Stopforths. Actually, it wasn’t a bad day, it just started of crappy. E fell and cut his forehead open on the window sill. Off to the hospital and three stitches later he’s happy as a lark, but I’m feeling terrible.
Not nice watching a [...]

Would someone smart and resourceful please get their asses into gear and do a dodgeball in South Africa?
This is what it does: (from the site)
The idea is simple: tell us where you are and we’ll tell you who and what is around you.
We’ll ping your friends with your whereabouts, let you know when friends-of-friends [...]