MIKESTOPFORTH

After over a year working out of a bit of a skanky joint, we decided we wanted our own space (and also just got too big) and can officially announce the new residence of Cerebra on the first floor (middle suite), Block F, Rochester Place, 173 Rivonia Rd. That’s just after the Harley Davidson dealership [...]

When considering all the the captains of all of South Africa’s professional sporting codes since readmission, none have received as much flack and endured as much pressure from fans, fellow players and media alike than Graeme Smith, and yet despite all that produced such excellent results. Yes, read that sentence again if you need to. [...]

If you’ve found your way here because you heard me chatting to Simon Dingle, welcome! Please feel free to leave a comment below with any questions you may have. My thanks goes to 702 for the opportunity to have a quick chat on Talk at 9 after John Robbie picked up on my Citizen column [...]

While the blogosphere has it’s conflicting opinions about the Springleap SEO competition Eric Edelstein has watched his new baby’s rankings soar up the charts. Springleap.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a site that showcases the T-shirt designs of artists (or just ordinary budding designers like you maybe) on a monthly basis – [...]

To all that attended the 27dinner in Jozi tonight, thanks for making it an awesome success. Special thanks goes to the speakers – Gareth from Buzzfuse (congrats on the recent growth guys!), Jonathan Miller from ForgeBusiness (viva Las Vegas!), Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral (and the Oscar for the best PPT slides in history goes to…) [...]

This blog has been up and running for some time now. Fundamentally it’s a channel to redirect people to other projects I’m involved in – Afrigator, Cerebra, 27dinners and my speaking and writing gigs. The site is up for a bit of a rethink and refresh – one of the key decisions I have to [...]

I’m a Benoni boy; born, bred and bloody proud of it. However, it goes without saying that Benoni is not without it’s quirks. I recently picked up a link from the Benoni High Matric class of ’98 Facebook group to the Benoni High School website, and in particular these hilarious boy’s hairstyle guidelines (or regulations [...]

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I haven’t had much to say about the South African Blog Awards this year, mostly because it seems apparent that anyone who associates themselves with the damn things gets lambasted by all and sundry in a matter of nanoseconds. Bottom line – in SA facilitating the blog awards is like coaching the Springboks – not [...]

If one could ever get used to 24+ hour trips in a plane, I’m starting to. Or at least accept them as a necessary evil. In comparison to Virgin Atlantic, SAA had an inch or two extra legroom (which makes a world of difference to me), but crappier food and nowhere near the variety in [...]

A couple of weeks back I wrote a post expressing a desire to see more of South Africa’s (possibly) lesser known blogs and bloggers in the ‘limelight’. It’s high time we saw some new talent coming to the fore in the SA blogosphere – it certainly is out there. I’ve had a few people write [...]

A short post to say thanks for Dave and the rest of the Cape Town geeks for welcoming me at the 27dinner – despite a really negative experience of Kulula (which broke my heart ‘cos I’m a big fan) at O R Tambo, it turned out to be a really awesome evening. I sat at [...]

A friend just sent me a mail saying that I’ve come across as a bit ‘tired’ in the last while (in terms of my writing on this blog). Sorry if things have been a bit sporadic and drab but there have been three big things happening in my life recently that I guess can be [...]

I’ve been picking up on a vibe lately (summarised by Jon Bishop in his recent post) that there is a perception that an elitist sect of South African bloggers believe that they are in “some sort of special members only club and ignore people they don’t know”. While I’m sure there is some truth to [...]

Seeing as I’ve got my calculations wrong (again) and find myself at Heathrow with another hour to burn, I thought I’d share some arbitrary thoughts on my first, rather whirlwind-ish venture into the United States of America. It was a fantastic experience, and one I look forward to repeating soon (roll on Vegas!!!). I must [...]

Highlights from the 3rd session, first morning session on day 2… 1. BitGravity Affordable, high-definition video live. A Flash-based service for big media and the enterprise. 2. Xtranormal High novelty component animation publishing tool (can create and animate Avatar with text instructions) for a range of uses. 3. HubDub News aggregation meets prediction markets. I [...]

Reading through the attendee list at DEMO08 is like reading a who’s who of tech news and innovation and more importantly, venture capital and investment. It is tech/web startup heaven, all jammed into two days. Sitting in front of me are Walt Mossberg, popular columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Stephen Wildstrom from BusinessWeek. [...]

It’s 4am, Tuesday 29 January in Palm Desert, California. Forgive me if I’m getting it wrong but I have seen numerous signs in the last day or so that read Palm Desert, Desert Springs and Palm Springs. Much confusion. The trip here was painfully long, but generally ok. I flew with Virgin Atlantic and despite [...]

Robby Kojetin is a friend of a friend who has taken on an enormous task – to climb Mt Everest in order to raise funds for CANSA (the Cancer Association of South Africa). I’m not sure if his plans are to summit but as I understand it he’s taken a flag up with him that [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about a newfound commitment in the Stopforth household towards a greener way of life. I also asked in the article if a gifted designer-type would consider putting together a badge I could stick on my site to show readers I give a bit of a damn, and Jonathan [...]