Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002 |
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Internet Want your diary (blog) to be read by others? Vipin V. Nair
NEW DELHI, July 29 TODAY the World Wide Web may look like a graveyard laden with bits and pieces of fallen dotcoms - those e-biz malls, mega portals, online grocery stores and what have you - but the Internet has not yet seen the last of its revolutions. After MP3, yet another mass movement is taking shape in the Net, which it is widely believed, would explode in the coming days. Welcome to blogging and the world of bloggers. What is blogging? The word is derived from `web log', and simply put, it is nothing but keeping a logbook on the Net. Or writing a diary, which all netizens could read. And respond to. Blogger is the one who blogs. Blogging is spreading like an infectious virus on the Net as more and more bloggers come out with their blogs each day. As per estimates by `Blogdex', which tracks weblogs, there are over 5,00,000 blogs today, compared to about 30,000 in 1998. In India too, the number of bloggers is on the rise. Perhaps the most well-known Indian bloggers are three Delhi-based students, who have not only created their weblogs, but have gone ahead and developed a software tool that is becoming increasingly popular amongst bloggers. The three students of Delhi University, Arnab Nandi, Kapil Mohan and Jayant Kumar, have written a free software called `Blogsnob', which helps bloggers find others of their ilk easily. After all, the success of a blog depends on the reactions it generates. "So far, only you journalists and writers could voice your opinion and publish it. Today, if I have to voice my opinion, I can do that through blogging," says Nandi who along with his other two friends, has created `Idya Research' to explore their software skills. The trio, who are regular bloggers and want to make it big in software in future, say that creating a weblog is as easy as signing up for Hotmail or Yahoo!. "There are a number of sites like Blogger.com which help you create your own blogs," says Nandi. Some other Web sites that help you create blogs are Diaryland.com and Upsaid.com. Like MP3, blogging too, does not generate much money for bloggers, though some try to sell wares through their weblogs. "Blogging would prevail because it is addictive," says Nandi. While no one believes that blogging would do to traditional media what MP3 did to music companies, the fact remains that the power of publishing is no longer vested with media houses alone - anyone can air their views through blogs. May be it's time you too, had a blog.
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