If you can’t beat them… blog them, and if you do beat them, blog it!

An assessment of the South African online-media corporate-scape popularity contest.:
(and Media 24 gloating :-), well done to them!

Details in Fin24′s article, I quote just the top 10, local and international here

3rd Quarter: July to September 2005
Domestic traffic (South Africa only)
Publisher

01 Media24
02 MWEB
03 Independent Online
04 Ananzi (Pty) Ltd
05 SuperSport Zone
06 iafrica.com
07 CareerJunction
08 Mail & Guardian Online
09 Johnnic Communications
10 Telkom SA

3rd Quarter: July to September 2005
Total traffic (local & international)
Publisher Unique Browsers Page Impressions

01 Media24
02 Independent Online
03 MWEB
04 Ananzi (Pty) Ltd
05 Mail & Guardian Online
06 iafrica.com
07 SuperSport Zone
08 CareerJunction
09 Johnnic Communications
10 Moneyweb Holdings

The growth of online-ologue is accelerating. Interesting that Telkom even with their monopoly style, goliath footprint, on the South-African net infra-structure is way down at number 10, then again, given the relatively narrow scope of their business and the fact that they are not yet seen as a content provider, they are in interesting company. Telkom’s apparent new-leaf relationship with MyADSL.co.za may be worth watching.

With the growing interest in the blogosphere, but particularly that section of the blogosphere which is, commercially driven member-based community networks, it will be interesting to see how long it takes until some of these new-fangled cyber-monsters start appearing on these lists. (What I’ve seen of South African community blog sites still seem very ‘flat’ and restrictive)

The last time I checked, it seemed rather expensive to join think, especially as it seemed virtually impossible to gauge the quality of their offering. I’m curious what ‘SA Graphic Design Council’ means exactly?

What the member-base and agenda looks like, etc.

And why ” …it is a demanding task to keep all well informed…” according to Gary Harwood, the chairman.