Mike Stopforth

Yikes. TV. I don’t like it. Radio is bad enough but I get seriously nervous when I have a TV interview. On 6 June I had my first interview with CNBC Africa around social media adoption in general in South Africa and how it relates to business, both internally and externally. [...]

Ode To An Audi
It was fate that brought you to my keep
When a good friend emigrated to the Land of Sheep
And since that day 3 years ago
Truth be told: I’ve seldom driven slow.
You’ve protected my family, let alone me
As I’ve progressively hit everything save a tree.
Yes, I confess that we’ve had a few prangs
But not [...]

ForgeAhead ICT African Innovators
Fancy yourself an innovator? Get nominated for the African ICT awards!
(tags: Africa awards ICT ForgeAhead)

Open letter to Carte Blanche | hblog.org
Heather Ford of iCommons presents her thoughts on Carte Blanche’s recent Wikipedia feature.
(tags: wikipedia wiki SouthAfrica iCommons collaboration)

I keep seeing ads for PHP developers floating about, and am getting increasing numbers of calls from people looking for good PHP bunnies. The following is a spec for a job in the Midrand region one of my mates has available. If you qualify and are interested email me and I’ll pass you [...]

Information Architects Japan presents Web Trend Map 2007 - “The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective”. An absolutely brilliant visualisation (someone has too much time on their hands).
Thanks to Thomas Otter for the tip.

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Podcasting for Business | Dave Duarte
Some nice insight from my esteemed colleague around the business case for podcasting
(tags: MP3 podcasting audio podcast business)

Pivots of the Web
What’s Next After Social Networking?
(tags: web2.0 trends web social internet networking analysis)

The Business 2.0 blog reports that Google has changed their recently acquired Feedburner service from a subscriptions model to an advertising only model. In other words, if you like me pay for Feedburner’s Pro services, you will no longer have to as all the Pro features will be part of the standard (altogether free) [...]

A while back I asked who could help a friend of mine, Wynand, launch his anti-crime and personal safety campaign MAC 911. Stii was kind enough to help him out and now the project is ready to take off.
A limited offer to the first 5 000 sign-ups of a subscription to the service at [...]