Mike Stopforth

South African Blog Directory
Just what it says it is…
(tags: SouthAfrica blogs blogging bloggers)

It’s a Tag World, My Masters at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media
An excellent post from Ian Delaney exploring the pros and cons of tagging and folksonomies.
(tags: tags tagging folksonomy folksonomies collaboration community socialnetworks km knowledgemanagement socialbookmarking web2.0)

del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network
Yahoo! begins to make it’s intentions clear…
(tags: del.icio.us tags tagging socialbookmarking [...]

This unashamedly stolen from Steve Rubel, who unashamedly stole it from here. This one is ’specially for the boys and girls at NML, oh and Peas of course.
The rules are simple:

digg: Take a drink if you see a story on the Digg front page about Digg itself
YouTube: Take a drink every time [...]

My friends Clive Simpkins and Helen Nicholson are two of four high-quality speakers (Bev du Toit and Grant Driver the others) that have donated their time and energy to an upcoming event sponsored by Conference Speakers International for the benefit of Women and Men Against Child Abuse. All proceeds go to the charity. [...]

I was formatting a killer post, which will remain nameless, and forgot to save. Two hours work and I lost everything. Darn, I am a silly, silly boy.
In the meantime I’d like to put up links so you can download Seth Godin’s custom little riff to us Jo’burg Geeks and marketers. Also, [...]

Geek And Poke
The unofficial official Web 2.0 cartoon blog. Getting lots of press.
(tags: web2.0 humor fun funny cartoon)

Our inaugural Jozi Geek Dinner with wine kindly sponsored by the genius clan at Stormhoek was an enormous success - the first of many more I hope.
We had a great turnout (thanks to all of you who came), a nifty venue (thanks to Primi) and some really cool talks from friends, bloggers [...]

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Pooh Bare, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

Gotta love ‘em. How could you get angry at that face?
Yes, he got that buff bod from his dad.

I’d heard good things about Afrihost - that they were clued up, efficient and affordable. We live in a globalised, commodotized world where it is more and more difficult to differentiate yourself on products alone. Service and brand personality are key benchmarks.
From day one, Afrihost exceeded my expectations. They are [...]

Why gambling at the office pays - September 1, 2006
Prediction markets at the office - nice article from Business 2.0
(tags: predictionmarket wisdomofcrowds collaboration community enterprise2.0)

Das E-Business Weblog: Video of my Talk ‘A History of the Future of Content’ online
A great resource from Martin Roell on user generated content’s future in business and society
(tags: CGM web2.0 [...]