DIGITALWATCH: A new organisation for ranking South African websites, the Website Association of South Africa (WASA), launched late last week amid controversy: the Online Publishers Association (OPA) of South Africa is now seeking legal action against WASA for publishing its members' Nielsen//Netratings rankings allegedly without permission. The OPA is expected to release a statement later today, Monday, 25 February 2008.
Simone Puterman (@SimoneAtLarge) is currently editor-at-large at Marklives.com and deputy chair of the Sanef online editors subcommittee. After majoring in psychology and linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her honours in psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing since 1997, with 7.5 year stints at both WriteStuff Publishing and Bizcommunity.com (March 2006-August 2013). Email her at moc.sevilkram@enomis.
