Comments on: South Africa’s 10 Most Influential Bloggers (According To Mandy)

By: Vuvuzelas

Vuvuzelas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:07:15 +0000

Really interesting, keep up the good work!!

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By: Joe Spot

Joe Spot — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:04:24 +0000

Great to see that web2.0 and blogging is creating thought leaders….some more than others….

By: esvl

esvl — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:27:48 +0000

@HoTsTePPa You should try getting off blogspot. Your posts are great but using blogspot no one will take you serious.

Who are these leaders you are talking about?
I have not found any “leaders” in the sa blogosphere.

On the same note. I think Mandy De Waal is a influential blogger. Some controversial posts she does.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:15:43 +0000

@HoTsTePPa I’m genuinely sorry you feel that way. In my experience the vast majority of the ‘leaders’ in the SA blogosphere are nice guys and girls who write fairly well, engage the community and work hard on their blogs. If you’ve done these things and are still not ‘breaking through’, we’re doing something wrong.

Have you tried attending a few “real life” geek dinners or 27dinners to meet up with people and put some names to faces? Are you promoting your blog posts on Twitter??

By: HoTsTePPa

HoTsTePPa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:19:39 +0000

I’m starting to think that breaking into this circle is gonna be harder than I initially thought.

It’s funny how the same names keep popping up and the circle is closed. I am yet to receive sustainable support/readership from you guys with my blog and for that reason, it will never break through.

The blogosphere in SA is smaller that it could be because of this, but then I guess that it begs the argument that leaders must have followers to earn their title, doesn’t it?

By: esvl

esvl — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:45:26 +0000

Here’s the problem.

If the president of Iran blogs, does that make him a influential blogger? Well because he is influential in other areas you might be able to call his blog influential because of that.

But if he was a blogger alone his blog would have no effect. Therefore your article is titled wrong. It should be the 10 most influential people that blog, but not the 10 most influential bloggers because their blogging is not the influence. Although technically you can call them bloggers. So the title can be right but its misleading.

Take a blogger that is not famous and change the world with his blog, this guy can be called a influential blogger, but not someone famous from something else that also has a blog.

So a influential blogger would then be someone that influenced society USING HIS BLOG.

Just my opinion, you can disagree if you want.

By: Wezz

Wezz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:42:42 +0000

@Mandy I know, I know I’m just ragging you. I’m not talking about wezzo.tumblr though, I’m on about ChumpStyle. We won a couple of awards in the past and may or may not have started and entertainment/humor bloggoing trend in SA (probably not though).

By: Vernon Koekemoer does blog | Web AddiCT(s);

Vernon Koekemoer does blog | Web AddiCT(s); — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:42:30 +0000

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