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The one thing about Indian blogosphere

June 28, 2007 · Posted in India blogs 

Since I started blogging, I’ve got the opportunity to interact and acquaint myself with several Indian bloggers, including some of the elites - something, which would have never happened if I werent blogging.

While I think that Indian blogosphere is still nascent, the one thing I find missing from the Indian blogging ecosystem is the ‘conversational’ style of blogging, so prevalent in the US counterpart. For example, a topic emerges, and every top tech blogger (TechCrunch, Gigaom, ReadWriteWeb, Scoble, ValleyWag, Dave Winer, Rafat Ali, Jeff Jarvis, Jason Calacanis etc.), offers their own opinion and forms a ‘conversation’ around that topic. This not only highlights varied perspectives on the topic, but also gives you an idea of what is on the minds of some of the most influential people in the industry.

So, whats hindering this type of conversational blogging from taking shape in the Indian blogosphere ?

1) Indian blogosphere is still nascent. Debatable, I know. But thats my take.

2) Not sufficient cross linking ? Note that this form of conversational blogging involves a lot of cross linking to other blogs, something which isnt very prevalent in the Indian blogosphere - I plead guilty to this offense too.

3) Nature of blog posts ? For a conversation to ensue, the topic should be debatable, even to the smallest extent. That seems to be missing from the Indian blogosphere.

Ok, I constrain my arguments only to the realm of Indian tech bloggers. After all, thats the domain I play in.

Also, note that my goal is not to sound condescending or controversial. Its simply to facilitate blogging into a more conversational medium in the Indian context.


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6 Responses to “The one thing about Indian blogosphere”

  1. Information Madness on June 28th, 2007 3:39 pm

    I agree with you on this Pranav.

    @ 2) — Looks like there is a race to become “best” blog. People think that linking would drive the traffic out from their blogs. They don’t understand that if there is something happening in the industry, everyone has to write their own opinion about it. Back linking would only give more information to the reader about the topic. I would love to backlink with blogs in my niche but who is willing to do the same ? Thats the question.

    @ 3). I think the bloging in India is not opinion based yet. Its rather information distribution.

  2. Rajiv Dingra on June 29th, 2007 11:17 am

    please read WATBlog.com ;) I think we try our best to do all that you say.. Infact we have linked to all sorts of blogs Indian and International. :) And we really try and include our opinion in most of our posts.. :)

    But i do agree some popular technology and internet blogs are working more like a news aggregation engine.

  3. Longrides on July 2nd, 2007 9:57 am

    I quite agree with your post here. A similar post on my blog might be of interest to you as well.
    :)
    http://indiaontheworld.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-arent-we-communicating.html

  4. Mahesh on July 3rd, 2007 8:27 am

    People in india dont have taste of internet. People are lazy even they don’t check emails properly as i canvassed in 5 cyber cafe in Bangalore. It will take time [much] to happen the same.

    Blogging is considered as a waste of time in india as i have asked some of my friends and colleagues who told the same even some of them don’t know about “what is a blog” even i explained them they don’t want to do so.

    Its very difficult to change the nature. But still we should try our level best to disseminate the internet technology to all indians.

  5. Mahesh on July 3rd, 2007 8:34 am

    Pranav,

    Though your articles are good but please place the ads in a systematic manner, i dont like the way you placed the ads in your blog as it covers 45% of the starting page which should contain the article but yours contains ads. Please don’t mind, its my opinion. :)

  6. Chandra on July 3rd, 2007 2:25 pm

    The main constraint is the cross linking. We need a technorati for India. That will solve a bunch of problems like blog search, content aggregation and so on.. But monetization will be a big issue.