Mike Stopforth

I’m at Hackle Brooke Estate having just munched a really good breakfast, listening to Aiden Choles telling me about the Narrative Lab, the niche consultancy he recently started with Raymond Salzwedel and Sonja Blignaut. I thought I’d update you on what they have to say…
Aiden Choles - “Complexity is the new simplicity”

What is complexity? [...]

Last night in the semi-darkness of what was arguably the best 27dinner I’ve been to yet (no small thanks to sponsors Stormhoek and Afrihost), we announced the launch of Afrigator Beta.
Our primary focus is establishing ourselves as Africa’s primary Social Media Aggregator. We pull content in and splice and dice it into [...]

I’m damn slow sometimes. I seem disproportionately slow when it matters most.
I’ve been speaking about a concept in my various presentations to various clients and brands for some time now that has gone unnamed until the recent Nomadic Marketing course we held for FNB and partners here in Jozi. I had finally named [...]

Tomorrow night marks the 15th installment of the 27dinner social networking movement - this time at Melrose Arch in Jozi. There are already over 100 people on the list - it bodes well for a goeie jol.
I have on more than one occasion taken the opportunity to shamelessly promote my own self-interests [...]

We don’t have DSTv at home. This is, truth be told, more my wife’s doing as she knows she’d see even less of me if I had multiple sports channels to pick from every hour of every day. Other than the sport, I don’t miss DSTv - the rest of the programming is [...]

I have a brother. He has many talents. Playing the guitar is one of them. In this clip, recorded about a year back, he plays one of his original songs which I really enjoy. Sure, I’m biased, but I think he has serious potential. He has written in the region [...]

Facebook To Drop ‘Is’ From Status Updates
Ah. It’s about time!
(tags: facebook development socialnetworking socialnetwork socialmedia)

If you’ve listened to me talk you’ll know I’m a big fan of Firefox, the free, open source Web browser. Apart from it chewing memory, Firefox and it’s many community-developed add-ons are collectively a very cool alternative to Internet Explorer and Safari.
Now you can download version 3.0b1 from the Firefox downloads page and give [...]

Looking at my Twitter account is pretty funny. It’s not unlike my YouTube account, MyBlogLog account and many others like it. I get into these things early, get bored or disillusioned, and then all of a sardine get back into it later. My tweets stopped in March and have restarted now in [...]

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Yum - fish fingers and apricot jam, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

Every breakfast with Ethan is an adventure…