Happily Blogging in South Africa since 2003

The Mail & Guardian online article SA Blogging bonanza talks about the relatively recent rapid growth of the South African blogosphere - more traditional media is taking notice :-)

Farrel Lifson, who started Politics.za (www.politics.za.net) in July 2003 to keep up to date with local politics, says that in the early days local blogs were few and far between. “I remember searching for South African blogs back in 2003, when I started mine, and having to sift through Google’s results trying to find one. I think at the time I managed to find two,” says Lifson.

I wonder if one of those was mine - I was using Blogger at the time (then run by Pyra before Google bought them out). My first post is dated September 2nd 2003, so it looks like I may have missed out being the first (at least still active) by a few months. This blog was never intended to be a business or attract readers, it is mainly an experimental way of record keeping and playing with new technology / software... looking back it seems my blogging premise was pretty accurate. Life was simpler then, but my reason for a fascination with online journals blogs is still the same.

When you read this journal--when you read any journal--keep in mind that there are a lot of people with something to offer you. I've come to believe that you can learn something from pretty much anyone who crosses your path.