REPRESENT*ZA explains exactly who we are
If you’re been wondering what REPRESENT is all about we’d like to explain – There have been questions posed as to whether it’s an entertainment site, a magazine, or just a look at Urban culture and entertainment…?
Well, it’s a combination of all those things… we like to call it a BLOGAZINE – it’s the combination of a blog (to be explained shortly) and a web magazine which fe…
atures a lot of Urban underground entertainment and social commentary.
Have you heard the term CITIZEN JOURNALISM? Citizen Journalism is exactly what it says – people writing about the people, for the people… without the restrictions of editorial, bosses, brands, sponsorship – it’s a new breed of journalism that is sweeping the internet world by storm. South Africa has been a little slow on the uptake but we’re getting there – one of the biggest platforms of CITIZEN JOURNALISM is BLOGGING, there are nearly 10 million blogs throughout cyberspace.
BLOGS are individual text-based web spaces typically run by individuals, who start a BLOG using existing and free software and update it on a regular basis with their views, news and opinions. They cover everything you could ever imagine. From the bizarre to the absurd.
What differentiates a BLOG from a NORMAL WEBSITE? Well besides the fact that you don’t have to buy a website, a name, the space and pay a monthly premium ie it’s a free platform, a BLOG also allows for two-way information interaction, where readers and web people can comment, send in content, post their thoughts and opinion. That’s why Represent call’s itself a Blogazine. We encourage free content, speech and interaction. We want to share information and empower people with knowledge – like a magazine, but we also want people to empower us – like a BLOG.
Represent is run by two people – the content-generator and editor – “EDITORISTA” and designer cum techno fundi “AQUOIBON“, however much of the editorial content is sent in by everyday South African’s, some of whom we only have cyber relationships with to date and have only met since the site is up-and-running.
Represent does tend to have a strong JOBURG focus however, it’s essentially a SOUTH AFRICAN BLOG. It’s been strongly SA focused to date and will remain that way, however, as we grow and the incoming content expands and we learn the tricks of the web trade, we want to maintain a GLOBAL outlook, we want to open reader’s minds and in order to do this, it is imperative that we have GLOBAL REACH. We’re about sharing information and opinion and show-casing what’s going on.
So now we hope that you have a better idea of who we are!
We have recently wandered into the RSS WORLD – which is the next step to growing the REPRESENT world and readership – if you like what you read and would like to know what’s going on on a daily basis, please read our article on RSS and make sure to hook it up!
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REPRESENT ZA!
