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| 1 | ![]() | Steven 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 Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor's posts have been read 4502938 times |
| 2 | ![]() | Martin 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 Martin Carstens: Staff reporter's posts have been read 1077752 times |
| 3 | ![]() | Roger 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 Roger Hislop's posts have been read 808420 times |
| 4 | ![]() | Danny 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 Danny Greeff's posts have been read 243430 times |
| 5 | ![]() | Ronan 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 Ronan Steyn's posts have been read 166800 times |
| 6 | ![]() | Matthew 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 Matthew Buckland's posts have been read 164630 times |
| 7 | ![]() | Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter ... more Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter's posts have been read 164240 times |
| 8 | ![]() | Ryan 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 Ryan Gordon's posts have been read 136570 times |
| 9 | ![]() | Michelle 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 Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.'s posts have been read 89490 times |
| 10 | ![]() | Lauren 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 Lauren Granger's posts have been read 73960 times |
| 11 | ![]() | Tom 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 Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley's posts have been read 51020 times |
| 12 | ![]() | Leonard 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 Leonard Ah Kun's posts have been read 48562 times |
| 13 | ![]() | Marc 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 Marc Forrest's posts have been read 48470 times |
| 14 | ![]() | Nur 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 Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter's posts have been read 45730 times |
| 15 | ![]() | Graham 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 Graham Shillington's posts have been read 33112 times |
| 16 | ![]() | Andre 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 Andre Fourie's posts have been read 23990 times |
| 17 | ![]() | Hendri 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 Hendri Lategan's posts have been read 16320 times |
| 18 | ![]() | Kevin 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 Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent's posts have been read 12171 times |
| 19 | ![]() | AppAdvice 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 AppAdvice's posts have been read 9490 times |
| 20 | ![]() | Peter 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 Peter Verweij's posts have been read 8530 times |
| 21 | ![]() | Joseph 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 Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist's posts have been read 8250 times |
| 22 | ![]() | Steven 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 Steven Preston's posts have been read 7670 times |
| 23 | ![]() | Shawn 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 Shawn Graaff's posts have been read 7570 times |
| 24 | ![]() | Niel 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 Niel Bekker: In New York's posts have been read 6130 times |
| 25 | ![]() | Catherine 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 Catherine Murray: Columnist's posts have been read 5210 times |
| 26 | ![]() | Marc 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 Marc da Motta's posts have been read 5050 times |
| 27 | ![]() | Mark 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 Mark van Diggelen's posts have been read 3480 times |
| 28 | ![]() | Dee 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 Dee Chetty's posts have been read 3470 times |
| 29 | ![]() | Garreth 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 Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter's posts have been read 3360 times |
| 30 | ![]() | Andrew 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 Andrew Craucamp's posts have been read 2730 times |
| 31 | ![]() | Phil 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 Phil Barrett's posts have been read 560 times |