Comments on: An Invitation to Chris Roper

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:49:27 +0000

Update: we met with Chris and smoked the pipes of peace.

Great guy, with some cool ideas. Watch this space.

By: Lize Freislich

Lize Freislich — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:00:41 +0000

Love your column.Check out a website called nationmaster.com. It compares international stats like crime rates per country,economies and energy, etc. It makes interesting reading.

By: wormyzn

wormyzn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:33:26 +0000

HAHAHA from one blogger to another Chris you really need to watch the language used for a site that has such a large number of visitors a more professional writing approach should be taken. However ideate has not been ranked so highly on http://www.sablogawards.com/2007/. With Contributors also taking top ranks.
In a nutshell when writing we all like to speak our hearts and minds worth but be nice.
I hope it can be resolved over a sandwich :p

By: Tami

Tami — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:51:36 +0000

It scares me that an editor-in-chief of a reputable site could go off at such a tangent without research. What also shocks me is this comment made by Chris “One of my staff thought of it a few months ago (and she ain’t no genius)”. It makes me ashamed to be a journalist if this this the caliber of person who fills a position like this – not only the lack of research, but publicly degrading a colleague. Makes me wonder why I worked for that degree if drivel like his rant is published.

Stunning reply Fred – I would have been a lot less diplomatic…

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:36:14 +0000

I wonder if Chris doesn’t have a Valentine for tonight. Could that be the reason he’s spending hours and hours looking for frivolous articles to write. I’ll give him 10/10 for the thinking behind the article and 0/0 for targeting my favourite bloggers!

By: Rhett

Rhett — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:56:15 +0000

I agree with coda and JBagley, the News24.com CMS is prehistoric.

I also think Ideate is a great blog and really enjoy their posts, they’re always relevant, honest and definately contribute meaningful things to the SA entrepreneurial community. Keep it up!

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:02:14 +0000

Nice reply to Chris’ vitriolic article. Very balanced and fair which one would expect from the Editor-In-Chief…

By: JBagley

JBagley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:50:52 +0000

Coda, news24.com is probably the worst and I’m guessing, the oldest CMS around. Actually its so legacy, it can’t even be called a CMS.

It took me a minute to actually find my damn comment where I left the link!

Uno seriously needs to get those 24.com developers to work on their most prized possession – “SA’s first news site to reach 1million local users”

By: coda

coda — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:03:11 +0000

Chris: It really bugs me that you didn’t even link to Ideate’s blog post in question. Oh that must be the crippling 24.com CMS that I’ve heard so much about, what – it can’t handle anchor elements? ;P

I see Jason pasted the link in among all the comment noise. And as for “This comments facility is now closed” – that’s lame too. Why?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:51:33 +0000

I was shocked when I read Chris’s article. Ideate is an awesome proudly South African blog! Hopefully Chris will see that when he reads a few more posts on the site and meets you guys.

Hopefully some good can come out of it.