Well, we succeeded. We persuaded the Tim’s to pony up a cool prize for the SA Blog 
Awards, but I can’t tell you
what it is yet and I can’t tell you which category it is for either. Jon from CherryFlava
and the other folk organizing the competition have to sort out a few details
first. Marc Forrest & I will be out of
the running for that one (not aware of any other Storm staff blogging at the moment). I’m waiting impatiently for the internal blog
server to be up and running so we can start using it for internal Storm
projects and forums.
Not that savvy on SA Blogs and where to find them?
Marc’s blog has a serious SA blogroll. I followed a link back from someone who
visited here from there, and there I found Muti Blogs where you can find a list of
blogs down the left hand side of the page. You can also take a wander across to the SA Blog Directory… oops, ok
that’s vanished (I read just the other day that the average lifespan of a blog
is 3 months… I suppose that is about how long it takes to hit the
“discouragement” phase 
and not pull out of it). I notice that Paul
at Chilibean kicked off a project of tagging all the South African blogs he
found on del.icio.us under the tag ‘ sablog’. I also notice Mr Forrest has been busier than
a beaver in tagging every SA blog that moves there! Always wondered what you guys in the KZN
office did all day Marc! ;) Paul also
refers to iBlog.
TimWG asked me this question :
“What % of our target market reads blogs right now? Hazard a guess”
and I’m not sure that my answer of “5%?” was even close, but I think I'd agree with Jon Cherry when he says “The good news is that they are an upper LSM influential cream-of-the-crop crowd. If you're online these days, you would have most probably read something on a blog, but my feeling is that there's still some way to go before we start seeing US type shifts in influence.”
I’ve seen some blogs with absolute drivel that I’ll never return to, and some awesome ones I’d hope to emulate one day. Eventually I suppose one ends up with a favourites list fed by something like Bloglines with occasional forays to find fresh thinking.
Happy blogsurfing. That’s me.
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