Mike Stopforth

Ok, so Choles and I are going to be at the Wanderers to see South Africa play India in the 1st test on Friday.
Who’s joining us?

The traditional CV is losing it’s power. Time and time again I meet with industry players and professionals, experts and thought leaders, who tell me one of two things…
“I found your blog online and liked what I saw - that’s why I got in touch”, or even scarier, “I Googled you before we met… [...]

Deano’s World - Bizzare Google Request
This hilarious story has the Web buzzing - some guy is receiving mails from a twat requesting that he remove a certain search term from his blog because it has overtaken his site in the Google search results for said term. Read it, it’s priceless.
(tags: Google funny SEO humor [...]

I am not photogenic. At all. I hate having pics taken - I always look like a goof. Or perhaps it’s that I look like a goof all the time but when I look in the mirror all I see is blue steel.
Since I began writing for mainstream publications like the Citizen [...]

Dave Gale is playing tag, and apparently I’m one of 5 ‘its’. I have to divulge 5 dirty little secrets and then ‘tag’ 5 other bloggers to do the same. Heck, why not.
Here goes - 5 things you probably don’t know about me:
1. I worked in a church as a youth pastor [...]

Micro Persuasion: 30 Amazing Things You Can Do With Widgets
Steve has a widget fetish
(tags: widgets widget Google HOWTO tools gadgets Ajax desktop)

Jeff Barr’s Blog » Becoming an Effective Second Life Presenter
Fairly obvious but useful tips for those hoping to present on Second Life (or any new technology / innovation for that matter)
(tags: SecondLife presentation presentations [...]

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See you there!

Seeing as it is the festive season, and I haven’t yet sung a Christmas Carol on this blog, I thought I’d begin with ‘Santa Clause is Coming to Town’.
Only because that unforgettable opening line, ‘You Better Watch Out…’ is the first thing that popped into my head as I read, once again, on TechCrunch, about [...]

Ok, it’s a terrible post title. I’m known for other gifts.
TechCrunch and Business2.0 report that the New York Times has opened up it’s content to social media practitioners (yes, you!) with added ’share’ features and functionality at the bottom of selected articles.
From TechCrunch:
Although you could always manually add The Times stories to news sharing [...]

Firefox ran a campaign a while back (www.firefoxflicks.com) during which they encouraged evangelists to submit videos online of why they loved using the free, open source web browser. The goal: “To help increase awareness of Firefox among this target audience, Mozilla would like to produce a high-quality, innovative 30-second ad that introduces Firefox to [...]