If there was ever an argument for summer time, Cape Town would be it with the cold wet rainy weather this morning and total darkness at 7.30am! Media takes centre stage this week - from the launch of Al Jazeera into Africa last Thursday, 31 May 2007 and the new African business channel CNBC Africa which launched Friday night, 1 June, to Sunday with the launch of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) 60th annual congress and the 14th World Editors Forum (WEF) - it's going to be an auspicious week for the media. Over 1600 local and international editors and publishers are gathered in Cape Town for WAN/WEF which is probably the biggest media gathering for an event of this nature in South Africa to date. President Thabo Mbeki is due to speak at the official opening this morning, although editors from around the globe caucused with their local colleagues on various issues of debate on Sunday. See our reports below. Bizcommunity.com will bring our readers all the news from WAN and WEF this week with myself and Chris Moerdyk on the ground. We will also be trialing our first news blog (http://blog.bizcommunity.com) and videos from the event this week, assisted by Zoopy, South Africa's own video and photo sharing portal (www.zoopy.com/bizcommunity). It's been a hugely exciting journey to get to this point and we have to thank the South African blogging community and media personalities who are leading online innovation for their continued advice and support to our team. Blogger-in-training, Louise Marsland, editor: editor@bizcommunity.co