Eish!!: Where are the SA Blog Chicks?

In my recent travels through the SA blogosphere I have noticed a massive discrepancy. There some to be very, very little blogs authored by women, ladies, girls, chicks.
I find this both interesting and a little disheartening. I assume that there are female readers as Tertia @ So Close is consistently near the top of the charts. But I reckon that in order for the South African blogs to truly become mainstream we need to have blogs that appeal to female users, by female bloggers. I think an injection of views from the fairer sex will make for a much more dynamic SA blog world. Currently the top blogs are centred around sport, technology, the web (2.0) and blogs about blogs. Something I enjoy, but not necessarily topics that are going to appeal to the ladies.

We desperately need some SA Blog Chicks!! Come on girls, start blogging!!

Just to acknowledge Glad to be a girl & Sista2Sista.
I am sure there are others. Feel free to list them in the comments.

Labels: blogs

Posted by eishman on Friday, April 13, 2007 at 8:40 AM | Permalink

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eishman
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I am just a normal Joe Shmo sharing my views, web travels, experiences and gems I have found with you all. Of course the focus is on the Motherland, South Africa, with a bit of bias towards Cape Town, from time to time.

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There do seem to be a number of ladies blogging over at iblog:
- Whispers
- Baze
- Enigma
- Megan

to name a few.

Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2007 at 9:33 AM

I'm a girl blogger too.....:)
we're here - you just have to look for us....

Posted by ExMi | April 13, 2007 at 9:44 AM

Hey Eishman. Thanks for the Acknowledgment ;) It's always nice to find out I have readers!

And there really are loads of SA girl-bloggers out there ...

- The famous Peas
- Thoughts and Ramblings
- Autumnal Akika
- Bangers and Mash (an SA Girl overseas)
- Asian Sky (an SA Girl overseas)

and those are just the ones I already link to ;)

Here are a few others ...

- Champagne Heathen
- MsMozi
- On a Limn

Posted by phillygirl | April 13, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Thanks, guy & gals. Just the response I was hoping for.
Keep the links coming, we need to know about them!

Posted by eishman | April 13, 2007 at 10:28 AM

Hi there from the OpenCafe - I
have some blogs as well to add to the list : Szavanna_blog , ArtMarketBlog
, OpenCafe blog

Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2007 at 9:27 AM

Thanks gals & guys for the feedback. Looks like I am going to have to have a squizz at all suggestions and let the readers know.
Check back for a Blog Chick post next week.

Posted by eishman | April 14, 2007 at 3:05 PM

uhm... i'm here too... posting from overseas.

hollywoodreporter.blogspot.com

(haven't figured out how to create links in comments - pls hELp!)

Posted by Hollywoodgal | April 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM

Hey, Hollywoodgal.
Thanks for adding your name to the mix. Will be checking out your blog shortly.
To add hyperlinks to your comments you need to add an HTML tag.
To get eishcoza.blogspot.com
you need to you are typing the following without any spaces.
< a h r e f = " h t t p : / / e i s h c o z a . b l o g s p o t . c o m " > e i s h c o z a . b l o g s p o t. c o m < / a >

Posted by eishman | April 15, 2007 at 9:55 AM

Aha - thanks for the tip! Let's see if I can get it right:

??

uhm, no - clearly I'm a klutz because it wouldn't publish my comment:
Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: [and then the illegal tag that won't go thru!]

What does that mean? I copied it all without spaces, inserting my blog details, instead of eish. :-?

Posted by Hollywoodgal | April 16, 2007 at 2:07 AM

Hey, Hollywoodgal,

There should be a space between the 'a' and the 'href'

Hope this helps. If not send me a mail and I will send you the actual code.

Posted by eishman | April 16, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Just joined the blogging world and must say that I also thought there aren't enough ladies blogging. Am going to check out all the 'girl blogs' now.

Posted by Ms Porcelain | April 16, 2007 at 3:21 PM

I think there are lots and lots of girls blogging - but still thanks for starting to collect them! There is definitely a problem with posting html comments - I struggled to post my three links as you see as well.

Posted by Anonymous | April 17, 2007 at 1:09 PM

I agree, there are some pretty cool woman bloggers out there already, but we need more! Chicks rule!

Tertia
xx

Posted by Tertia | April 18, 2007 at 8:19 PM

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