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1Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Claremont, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an SEO copywriter, learning the ropes the hard way before utterly mastering them. H... more
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2Martin Carstens: Staff reporter
Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, Discovery Invest and currently, Gearburn.... more
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3Roger Hislop
Roger is a tech fan that is hot, hot, hot for well designed, clever, beautiful things that make our lives a little bit more amazing. He spends a lot of time geeking out in a house littered with bits of cable and electronics. He owns his own oscilloscope ferchrissakes. He was in tech PR for twelve ye... more
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4Danny Greeff
Having dabbled in graphic design and mobile marketing strategy, Danny now heads up the premium marketplace division at Ad Dynamo, an online advertising company based in Cape Town that is taking Google on at it’s own game. An absolute Internet and gadget junkie, Danny enjoys normal things too; like... more
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5Ronan Steyn
Ronan Steyn is one of the most serious gamers you will ever meet. With the ability to socialize equally well with a room of hardcore gamers or softcore gamers alike, he eats adaptation for breakfast. As a child he knew he would somehow make gaming his job, his mom didn't agree. With the poor quality... more
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6Matthew Buckland
Matthew Buckland is a web guy who has over the years worked in a programming, editorial and business capacity within the online media environment. He now dedicates his life and soul to Creative Spark and Memeburn.com. He was previously General Manager of ... more
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7Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
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8Ryan Gordon
Ryan sees things in binary, which is a handy super power for any coder, even better if you can apply it to your world view. With a BCOM (Hon) Information Systems from UCT freshly behind him, Ryan joined the Creative Spark team as a Web Developer where he is encouraged to share his unique take on our... more
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9Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a wa... more
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10Lauren Granger
Lauren Granger has a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University, where she specialised in New Media. She is currently a Masters student at the University of Cape Town and an editorial intern at Memeburn.com.... more
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11Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley
Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist and the Founder and Publisher of Silicon Valley watcher, which is an online news site reporting on the business of Silicon Valley and the culture of disruption.... more
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12Leonard Ah Kun
Leonard Ah Kun is a mobile application development specialist and interaction designer. He has a M.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. During his studies, his research focused mainly on creating engaging experiences with mobile devices. This included using a mobile phone'... more
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13Marc Forrest
Marc Forrest is a blogger, techie, Apple fan boy and dad to three gorgeous kids. He started blogging in 2004 after being inspired by the Joblog.co.za team in Johannesburg, and started a blog called Durbzblog. After realising in 2007 that he needed his own identity, he set up MarcForrest.com, whic... more
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14Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter
Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every now and again.... more
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15Graham Shillington
Graham is co-owner of Refresh Creative Media along with Craig Bruton. He loves ideas, design, technology, human potential and his wife. He is also into kitesurfing, climbing and running.... more
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16Andre Fourie
Andre is just old enough to remember playing Xenon2: Megablast on a 286 machine. While there are some painful memories of the school bully picking on him because he dressed up as the Prince of Persia, he is delirious (and sometimes a little delusional) about what he calls the "pure unblinkered aweso... more
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17Hendri Lategan
Hendri Lategan is a Capetonian based web and tech junkie with a passion for all things digital. He recently attained his Bachelors degree in Socio Informatics from the University of Stellenbosch and is looking to make his mark in the Online world. He is a fervent gamer with a great love for film and... more
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18Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent
Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg ... more
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19AppAdvice
AppAdvice was created to provide users of smartphones with application reviews and how-to guides for a wide variety of platforms.

With the multitude of applications available to users, it is often difficult to decide which app is right for you. When looking for an app, you’re often given only ... more
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20Peter Verweij
After 30 years of lecturing and training at the School of Journalism at Utrecht in journalism, politics and new media, Peter Verweij, started in 2005 his own company D3-Media, which focuses on the following areas: Production of journalistic content for multimedia media and blogs; Research in the ar... more
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21Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist
Joseph C Lawrence has had lots of thoughts for a while now about the way in which evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us improve the way we experience the web. Understanding the way our minds work and process information can give us amazing insights about web design, web marketing, and we... more
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22Steven Preston
Steven Preston is Co-Founder and a Mobile Specialist at Cobi Interactive, the first South African technology company to offer custom software development for the full range of mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. After completing his BSc (Honours) in IT and Post Gradua... more
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23Shawn Graaff
From the depths of classics libraries and American academia, Shawn is a South African based web enthusiast who still believes in the power of the word, now it’s just online. The Content Manager for R.O.I Media, a Cape Town based online media agency, where she also works in SEO Development, Social ... more
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24Niel Bekker: In New York
Niel writes about and studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is a graduate student at Jay Rosen's Studio 20 Program at New York University. In the past, Niel has worked in Cape Town, where he was employed first as a music writer for Channel24 & Speakerbox.... more
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25Catherine Murray: Columnist
Catherine is currently Head of Online at Atalink Ltd, a specialist publishing company based in Central London. She manages the development of news and feature based websites and other online projects, aimed at the business, IT and finance sectors in the UK, mostly using open source development platf... more
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26Marc da Motta
Despite himself, Marc da Motta graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 2009. Being an avid fan of anything with a big engine, he enjoys writing about cars in his downtime – which is a lot of the time. After having spent a year freelancing in Hong Kong, he has als... more
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27Mark van Diggelen
Mark has been actively involved with the Internet since 1995 and more so with online gaming since 2000. He started and initially self funded SkillPod Media in March 2004 and is currently the CEO. To date SkillPod have built a proprietary online game management engine which currently powers a number ... more
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28Dee Chetty
Dee Chetty, is an Indian-educated web junky from Cape Town. He currently works at MWEB as the New Product Development Strategist for their Mobile division. Dee is a Blogger with a keen focus on Technology, Web Trends, Mobile and Cars. His career includes time as a Web Developer, Project Manager, Web... more
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29Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter
Garreth is an international journalist based in Cape Town. He has an Honours degree from the UCT Department of Film and Media Studies and served as a researcher in the department.
After an active role in student media, he began at British Sky Broadcasting writing for Sky News and locally has served... more
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30Andrew Craucamp
Religious sceptic, professional consumer and full time developer. Andrew is an avid open source enthusiast and keen follower of the big players in the information sector. He sternly supports free media, free information and copyleft principals and hates writing about himself in the third person.... more
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31Phil Barrett
Phil Barrett is a director of Flow Interactive in the UK and South Africa. He's a user experience designer, which means he helps businesses make more money by making their customers happier. As the complexity of the world around us increases, good user experience design brings back simplicity, huma... more
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