How to have a blogging good time

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By Tazz (Contact - View My Woyano)

Published Fri 09 Feb 2007, 360 Views, 1 Comment

If you think South Africa's presence on the internet ended when Mark Shuttleworth sold Thawte Consulting you're in for a surprise. Loosely-knit communities of South African bloggers are mushrooming on the world's internet superhighway. Bloggers are people who write what are known as blogs. Wikipedia defines a blog as being "a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order." In narrative english, a blog is an online journal which allows anybody with access to the internet to read it. In the old days (yes, there are old days - blogs have been around for over 10 years), blogs were referred to as "web logs", from which the word blog derives its name. However, long-gone are the days when writing blogs was only for technically gifted geeks with thick glasses and greasy hair – these days anybody with the ability to connect to the internet can set up a blog with relative ease. Some enterprising bloggers set their blogs up on their own websites, but this requires some technical expertise as well as involving additional costs; so it's not surprising that by far the majority of bloggers write their blogs on third-party websites like Blogger.com. These websites are usually free and easy to use. Popular international choices for setting up blogs are myspace.com and blogger.com. Here you'll find South Africans sharing the South African culture with with the rest of the world... the good, the bad and the ugly. There are a number of blogging communities which are almost exclusively South African (although they're open to the rest of the world too). A popular South African blogging community is MWEB's community at mweb.co.za; where characters like Impatient Leo and Grapjas are more popular than Koos Kombuis (yes, Koos blogs when he's not strumming them strings). Each blog allows its readers to respond with comments and this is where one can witness and partake in what is sometimes rather animated discussion. Internet forum discussions offer a great alternative to those who want to partake in discussion, but don't want to make the effort of starting their own blog and attracting readership. If you feel you're being left out of the debate about the presidency, visit the vibrant friendsofjz.co.za forum, where you can partake in politically charged discourse; with the likes of Poorman Komanisi kuQumbu and Magaduzela, Earl of Cambridge. The webmaster allows all viewpoints, but prepare to be "flamed" (have your character assassinated) if you don't love the man who loves to sing about his machine gun.

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Tazz, I just came across this great article you wrote. Where are you now? I'm interested in the whole aspect of professional blogging, where really great bloggers are like journalists and made money from their blog pages. Do you know anything about that?

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This is my two cents...

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