Mike Stopforth

I’ve written about Wynand of MAC 911 a couple of times - he’s a brave and proudly South African crusader against crime who is looking to bloggers to help him grow and promote his initiative.
I got a mail from Wynand this week asking if I could put out a call to anyone who may have [...]

Justin Spratt of Vottle sent me this link from AWS (Amazon Web Services) headquarters. We heard about AWS from the Buzzfuse guys at the last 27dinner in Jozi. From the site:
Attention: Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and [...]

The easiest way to remove unwanted icons from your Mac’s taskbar
So simple I could scream…
(tags: Macintosh macOSX OSX tips hints)

A quick translation for those lucky people who don’t spend their free time obsessing about content management systems. WordPress is an open source weblogging platform. It’s the platform I use to manage this blog and the platform - with some modifications - that Global Voices runs on. It has a reputation for being very user [...]

I’ve been called many things since I started blogging. Not all of them have been nice.
Lately though, as a by-product of trying to take over the world with Cerebra (one has to grow up sometime), I’ve been called nothing. I think it was Dave Duarte who once spoke words of wisdom, saying that [...]

The shoemakers children are poorly shod. Never a truer word has been spoken of the dilemma facing web companies who design their own websites.
When Cerebra launched we had a phenomenally ugly Drupal-powered site in place as our ‘corporate’ web presence. It was pretty horrendous (not because of Drupal, because of us), but we [...]

New York Times Puts Reader Comments on Main Page - Good Idea?
Is Web 2.0-ing your site always a good idea?
(tags: news NYT New York Times web2.0)

Work with Microsoft Oulook winmail.dat files in Apple Mail
Bloody heck, this has been frustrating me. Finally, a solution…
(tags: outlook osx mail mail.app mac ical winmail.dat tips hints apple)

I originally saw this clip in Uwe Gutschow’s excellent presentation at the Nomadic Marketing Course in Cape Town earlier this year. Now Richard has picked up on it at Capitalist Punks, and it’s well worth sharing with you here too.
The clip, made for Microsoft by this guy, takes the mickey out of the advertiser-customer [...]

SocialMedia Aims to Bring Attention Economy to Advertising
Richard MacManus commenting on SocialMedia.com’s presentation at the Graphing Social Patterns Conference in San Jose
(tags: media social socialmedia attention economy)

StumbleUpon: The Antithesis of Google?
Great article on one of my favourite social bookmarking tools
(tags: stumbleupon Google web2.0)

For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together - New York Times
Google’s entry into [...]