Popular contributors this week
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Steve Whitford is the editor of Do Gaming (http://gaming.do.co.za). After working as a journalist across a number of sectors for a couple of years, he began freelancing and then moved into tech public relations. He then moved into gaming where he now... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Andy Hadfield is a digital guy from South Africa. He runs a bunch of online and mobile stuff for a bank, consults a bit, speaks a tad, drinks wine and proudly represents Johannesburg's greatest 20/20 cricket side - The Fine Legs.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Read his blog at http://www.mpieters.com

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Rowan Polovin is the CEO of MEDIAS (http://www.medias.co.za), a web and mobile video entertainment and technology company.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Henk is a Computer Scientist and Internet Junkie turned Social Entrepreneur. He heads up Skyrove, Africa's largest WiFi Sharing Community. He's managed to drop out of both Med School and Mensa and in his free time he likes yapping about how solar pow... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Yoav Tchelet currently manages the e-commerce division of Avis in South Africa. He has spent the better part of the last 10 years in various digital marketing roles and projects including founding a digital agency, working with some of the largest br... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Analyst by day, internet-obsessed coder-slash-opinionista aspirant-innovator digital hermit by night. And I live near Cape Town.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Mandy de Waal is a columnist, writer and journalist. A former broadcast journalist, de Waal is writes for Noseweek, ITWeb, MarkLives, Brandchannel and MarkMagazine. She is part of the judging panel of the Discovery Health Journalism Awards and the MP... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Steve Vosloo is the 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He is a past Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where he researched youth and digital media. He blogs at vosloo.net.

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Steve Song is the Shuttleworth Foundation's Telecommunications Fellow. He provides the organisation with support and thought leadership on access to communications infrastructure and its impact on social and economic innovation and growth.

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On our Reader Blog, we invite Thought Leader readers to submit one-off contributions to share their opinions on politics, news, sport, business, technology, the arts or any other field of interest.

If you'd like to contribute, first read our guide... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Rudolph is the founder of Mybroadband.co.za (aka MyADSL), a news and information website founded in 2003 to serve the needs of the South African broadband and IT community.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Stii is lead developer at Afrigator.com and a couple of other projects. He is a constant learner and loves experimenting with anything new or old. Loves anything super geeky. A devoted husband to a super wife and to two aspiring young geeks in the ma... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Toby is an electronic engineer with an interest in all things digital and electronic. He embraces technology and is always looking for new ways to incorporate it into his lifestyle.

He also buys a lots of gadgets and computer equipment, which he ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Christine da Silva is the founder and well respected global strategist for AlterSage, an online marketing focused company. A prestigious career spanning from graphic design, web development, project management, strategy and online marketing technique... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ronnie Apteker was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 and attended high school and university in Johannesburg where he graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Witwatersrand with an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1994. Apteker studied compute... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Growing up with Beltel, Trumpet Winsock and a 2400 modem, Jason has been online since high school in the nineties, with the IRC logs to prove it! After heading up web initiatives for an international online marketing group for six years, he left to s... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ross Allchorn is a web design consultant, interface designer and photographer and runs his website design consultancy Allchorn Design.

You can also follow Ross on Twitter.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Arthur Attwell has worked in the book industry for over ten years, and is co-founder and director of Electric Book Works, a company specialising in ebook and print-on-demand production and distribution.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Previously executive director of international high-tech charity iCommons, Heather Ford has worked in the technology for development™ field around the world focusing specifically on the relationship between open content and innovation. Co-founder o... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Rafiq Phillips is the resident Web AddiCT at MIH SWAT and as such does not believe in writing personal bio's: He'll let Google do the talking.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Tumelo Mphafe is the Mindq's senior PHP Developer. What started off as a hobby freelancing as a web designer seven years ago turned into an obsession with distributed systems design and development.

He started as a system technician, then a Java d... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Arthur Goldstuck is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on information and communications technology (ICT), internet and mobile communications and technologies. Goldstuck heads the World Wide Worx research organisation, and has ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Anja Merret lives in Brighton, United Kingdom, having moved across from South Africa just more than a year ago. She started a blog at the beginning of 2007 and is using it to try to find out everything important about page ranks, traffic and all thin... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Takes Marketing and Social Media with his coffee. Occasionally adds soya milk and some meaning.

Where I write stuff.
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Kevin Davie studied information technology at Harvard and MIT as a Nieman Fellow in 1995/6. He established www.woza.co.za, an online stand-alone news portal which flourished during the dotcom era but did not do so well when dotcom went dotbomb. He al... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Christopher Mills is a highly experienced SEO and Web Development guru. With an impressive track record in blogging, web design, development, and web optimization, not to mention experience in hardware, operating systems, programming and networking m... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Vincent Maher is the Mail & Guardian Online's digital strategist. He has worked in the web industry for 12 years, was the head of the New Media Lab at the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies and writes columns for Enjin and Inte... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Samantha Perry is an ICT journalist based in Johannesburg. She has been covering the ICT industry for the last nine years, and believes she's nearly due for a long-service award, and possibly a medal. She has worked in a permanent capacity for the li... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Eve Dmochowska spends her day playing on and with the Internet, and thinks it is a rather fun way to make money.

In her free time (between 3am and 5 am) she hopes to one day write a book and learn how to cook.

In the meantime, she has two onl... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ismail Dhorat is passionate about helping businesses succeed at his company ignite^2, he just completed 1 year and 8 months at a startup operator in the UAE operator offering mobile, internet, fixed and IPTV services. He has over 8 years of experienc... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Rob Stokes is the founder and Group CEO of Quirk eMarketing, Africa's largest full service online marketing agency. Quirk was founded in 1999 as Rob was nearing the end of his Business Science Marketing Honours Degree at the University of Cape Town. ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Andy Higgins is the founder and managing director of bidorbuy, South Africa's leading online marketplace. He has a BSc in electronic engineering from the University of Natal. He has also completed an MBA at Wits Business School.

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Derek works mainly with listed companies, improving online communication to publics. This involves internets, intranets and branded lanyards. Web 2 is, in his opinion, only sense-making when being shoe-horned into Enterprise 2.
The web: "It Is What... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ben Kelly is the section head for communications and technology at Finweek and a columnist for Fin24.
He has been playing this game for around ten years and tries his best to keep up with the latest and greatest in the technology field. A self-confe... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Dee Chetty is a South Africa- and India-educated computer junkie. Focusing on strategy and new developments, Dee finds himself pushing the limits of innovation with his ideas. Dee loves open-source, mobile technologies and location-driven application... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Darren thinks that in the world of The Long Tail, 'Niche is Nice'.

Actually, he thinks 'Niche' really rocks.

Darren is a fundi on B2B media, technology stuff, and does things like hit small white balls, jump off cliffs and out of aeroplanes, r... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Francois Botha is the founder and lead quickThinker of quickOnline, a niche digital marketing company that makes online simple. He's been in the online game since 2002 and has built up a healthy reputation delivering successful digital campaigns for ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Luke Hardiman is in his lounge in Kalk Bay, sitting in front of the biggest iMac he could find. Sometimes he goes outside to ride his bike, but mostly he's busy throwing xhtml at the internet.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Joey da Silva is the founder and CEO of the web and mobile application development company FormFunction. His 12 years experience comprising web design and development, business analysis, project and operations management. His entrepreneurial drive a... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Adrian Hewlett is a graduate of UCT and is currently the chairman of South Africa's On-line Publishers Association (OPA). His day job consists of running Habari Media, South Africa's leading new media sales house. Habari exclusively represents MSN's ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Alwyn Van Niekerk is a systems architect currently specialising in identity and access management, having written, designed, and architected many large-scale enterprise Java systems.

He has a keen interest in Linux and OSS and the current next-ge... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Charl is a software programmer, open source enthusiast and all-round technology geek. There is generally a better chance of catching him working at 3 o'clock in the morning than 3 in the afternoon.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Jaxon Rice is a developer at Soup Consulting. By night he is the lead singer for a rockabilly band called the Diesel Whores. He blogs at http://jaxonrice.com.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Antonio Petra has worked in the digital environment for the past 14 years with experience in online marketing, brand building and analytics. He is head of Digital Strategy at Cambrient, a company specialising in digital marketing and web services. Hi... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Shaun Oakes can usually be found hiding under a desk or table at Quirk eMarketing, Africa's largest full service online marketing agency.

He has a gift for conceptualising online marketing strategies, a present given to him by his beloved grandmo... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Alex is a freelance GUI designer and developer, focusing on dynamic Flash/ActionScript development, as well as intelligently optimised and complaint XHTML+CSS+JavaScript front end development. With his ever-improving knowledge of PHP and MySQL, he ha... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Joseph Misika is a Web Applications Developer at the Mail & Guardian Online. He has been working there for a year now but has been playing around with web applications for 6 years.
A student at heart and always looking to learn new stuff. He is ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Andrew Smith is the co-founder of the e-commerce company Live Alchemy which gave birth to online brands such as Yuppiechef. He now passionately stokes the fires of e-commerce in South Africa, helping other companies make the transition towards transa... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Charl Norman is the founder of Blue World Communities (BWCOM.co.za), which includes some of South Africas fastest growing and most interesting social media portals including BlueWorld.co.za and ZoopedUp.com.

Blue World Communities has been in the ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Nur Ahmad Furlong - nomad-one is a designer on & offline, newbie social entrepreneur, a self confessed Wordpress nut, blogger, brand strategist and a social media traveler. He has worked in the communications industry since 1998 and currently focuse... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Jarred Cinman is software director at Cambrient, South Africa's leading developer of web applications. He co-founded Johannesburg's first professional web development company and was one of the founders of VWV Interactive, for many years the premier ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Dominic White is an information security specialist currently working for Deloitte South Africa's Security & Privacy
Services where he holds a management position. He has a passion for information security, the kind that keeps him up at night. This... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Mohamed Nanabhay is the Head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network based in Doha, Qatar. He joined Al Jazeera in 2004 and is currently managing a team that is focused on engaging audiences through online communities and emerging technologies.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Kevin Lourens is a founder and CEO of Cambrient Internet Applications, one of South Africa's leading digital marketing companies specializing in the development of digital marketing campaigns and large scale websites for some of South Africa's leadin... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Tyler is a young entrepreneur, blogger and speaker. He is the Creative Strategist at Younique, a social media marketing firm. He spends most of his time working with the latest web 2.0 technologies and trends to find new ways of engaging consumers. H... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Alan is co-founder and creator of micro-site builder Tank: a simple content-management app geared towards making the internet a better place, one site at a time.

He kicked off his internet career at Armadillo Interactive, and was one of the origin... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Gino is a consultant, strategist, commentator, writer and blogger who helps people and companies navigate the worlds of the Internet, social media and online marketing. More information available at ginocosme.com.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Neil is a technology generalist - which is a polite way of saying that while he can't explain what he does during introductions, his CV sure looks interesting. The more frequent themes are open source, doing development Right(TM), security, and scal... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Kerry-Anne runs August Sun Projects, a content creation consultancy specialising in providing effective copy for the web; she's also the founder of the Red Balloon Craft Junction, South Africa's first online meeting place for the craft industry.

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Who am I? An educationalist, academic, PhD student. My interests? ICT for development, intercultural research practice, community development, thinking and knowledge construction, human-computer interaction, emerging and converging ICT and ... well r... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Nic is the business manager of mobile at Mail & Guardian Online. He is also a blogger and a passionate South African.

He is obsessed with technology in every way possible and is trying to get his head around new developments and break the web... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Albert Bredenhann is the MD of Jump Shopping (www.jump.co.za), South Africa's leading online shopping search engine. He is one of South Africa's leading e-commerce experts with extensive knowledge about the online shopping industry. He also played a ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Craig Raw is CTO of Quirk eMarketing, the internet marketing company. A youth of programming, starting with BASIC on a ZX Spectrum, led to a career of software architecture and development. Craig has worked on all of Quirk's active projects from the ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Dale is currently the Marketing Manager at Peresys (Pty) Ltd - a technology solutions provider to the financial markets that specialises in the delivery of FIX-protocol enabled applications and services that form the largest connected trading communi... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Dave Duarte is founder and director of a new-media marketing programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business, called Nomadic Marketing. He also lectures on the MBA and other executive education courses. He has recently launched Huddlemind, a commun... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Barry not only looks geeky, he IS geeky. He can program anything from a computer to a VCR!

Barry has 18 years experience in programming. He is responsible for the delivery of world class products to companies world wide.

Currently he's working ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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