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The State of Blogging in South Africa
Arthur Goldstuck has just declared that blogging in South Africa has reached the tipping point and that we can not only "expect exponential growth in the coming year" but that by next year "blogs will not only be a mainstream component of most online media in South Africa, they will also be a dominant component."
He's based this on data gathered from regional aggregators and blog hosts (so we can assume that these numbers are on the low end):
- Number of blogs at end of August: 25 037
- Number of active blogs (updated in last two weeks): 2 953
- Percent of active blogs: 11%
- Number of posts in August: 39 938
- Page views in August: 5 198 693
- Unique visitors in August: 621 204
Of course the impact of blogging will still be limited to those who have access to ICT and aren't capped by those ridiculous broadband limits...
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Oh, yes. I think he's right about the fact that it's going to "boom" in SA soon. Our national ICT infrastructure is getting better slowly but surely so things should heat up soon.
The local market is certainly untapped at this moment.
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