Readers of South Africa’s Mail and Guardian Online can now create blogs using the newspaper’s new “Blogspot.” According to an ITWeb article posted to AllAfrica.com, the publication’s editor, Matthew Buckland, blogs “raised interesting questions about what constitutes journalism on the Web, because blogs effectively allow almost anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to publish their own stories or articles.”

This is the second South African online publisher to offer blogs. First out of the gate was M-Web, where 591 people took advantage of the opportunity to start blogs, 142 of which are active.