Archive for the 'Stirred' Category

In a bid to win over the hearts and minds of the South African bloggers BeatMagazine will now be offering link love. There are a few rules however, and stringent adherence to said rules must be maintained in order acquire the necessary “electronic – social – capital” to warrant a “link-love” or “link lust”. Whatever [...]


 
 
Eve Dmochowska is generally considered a mystery in the online world. The obvious reason is due to most people’s inability to pronounce her surname. When we questioned online miscreant Vincent Hofmann, his comment to us was “How can someone with a three letter name have such a complicated surname? I can’t pronounce it”. 
The second question [...]


Web 2.0 rockstar and all around nice guy, Andy “Lad” Hadfield is turning 28 today… or at least that’s what he tells us. 
Upon investigating Andy’s Facebook profile we see his year of birth is 1980, making him a youthful 28 years old today. We did however have doubts about Mr Hadfield when we went through [...]


There are a lot of blogs out there. That’s the understatement of the century. Yet, most of these blogs go undiscovered, unacknowledged. They are, in essence, shunned for not being one of the ‘cool kids’ of the blogoschmear.
Let’s take a look at some of the cardinal sins of these bloggers:
1.       Laughing at their own jokes; [...]


He was wearing a faded t-shirt with the words “Freedom of Movement?” splashed across his chest. He recognized us, remembering the times we’d shared when he was still a successful blogger – before the Ryler incident. He slurred “wheresh my fukin money” and stuck his head into the open window, bringing with him the smell [...]


Recent rumours have suggested that Mike Stopforth of Cerebra / 27dinner’s fame has retreated from the limelight, in favour of a remote sanctuary in the Port St. Johns.
We asked Mike’s colleagues about his decision to bow out, in spite of being in the prime of his extraordinary career. Asking to remain anonymous, Mike’s employees said [...]


In an unsurprising twist, open source activist, Gustav Bertram has admitted that he is in fact a cyborg.
“This isn’t that big a surprise to us in the community” said Web 2.0 demi-god Mike Stopforth. “We all knew he had no sense of humour and I guess it only makes sense that he is actually a [...]


Nick is the kind of guy who gets sent into the “pit” by his employers, the last time we heard from him was at the iphone 3g launch. Who knows if he’ll ever come back. I for one fear that the deadly combination of iPhone ironic stupidity and Fresh’s ironic humour might just provide Nic’s [...]