I have been investigating this theory for quite some time and thought that now is the time to let it loose. I am almost 100% sure that this is going to be seen as very controversial and offensive to the SA blogosphere. Screw it!
I have to admit, Muti is a great way to get hold of local headlines, and it sure is a wonderful initiative by Neville Newey. I applaud you for your service to ZA internet, however, an SA internet bubble has emerged. Why? You ask. I’ll tell you why.
Let me first explain the bubble: The Muti Bubble refers to the isolation and ‘retardation’ of the South African web user. I say this because if you look at the nature of the ‘hot’ articles on Muti, it is clear that there is bias, which is to be expected seeing as it is a South African headline aggregator, but the fact is that centralising the content so much causes new-comers to the internet to become very SA Internet centric, which is wrong. Oh so wrong. The content I am referring to is not the news articles from local eNewsPapers, it is the ZA blogosphere I speak of.
I am afraid to point people to Muti because I know that they will get very little exposure to what is really out there, they will see tons of blogs from within the SA internet border, but very little from the blogs that are actually the root of all blogs. You see, I believe that aggregating local content causes people to become narrow minded in terms of what they read online and for what they search for. This is not necessarily wrong because it will directly benefit South African webmasters in terms of traffic and thus, ad revenue. However, it will retard the general South African web user. South African content will become their main focus, when in fact, their focus should be global.
Many of you might be thinking that I am a sod for even mentioning that aggregating local content is retarding the readers, the thing is that this is not what I am saying. If the people who submit content to Muti were a bit more internationally focussed, all of these problems would be taken care of, however, it seems that the people submitting to Muti are only submitting articles from other South African blogs. It’s called inbreeding. Of course there are people submitting international content, like me (even though it is minimal, for good reason that is), but these articles don’t get a thumbs up. Because South Africans are well known for being bias and thus causing our internet following to become inbred, retarded, and out right stupid. I dislike reading local content nowadays, because local content has become uniform. Everyone talks about the same stuff, share the same perspectives and are sucking each others arseholes dry.
I suggest that things change before South African internet users become the hillbillies of the WWW.
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