Blogging

" Extremly amazing mode of communication"-This is what I said about blogging in my very first post 5 months back when i entered this virtual world.
In this 5 month journey I have definitely tried and witnessed an appropriate exploitation of this fascinating concept. This Thursday's Business Line also presents a case of the same but I cannot agree more with Frederick Noronha when he says about blogging in India that-

"In a country where we are great at simply mastering the technology -- rather than applying it efficiently to our own needs -- we're probably missing the point here too. Blogs have the capability to empower the citizen, simply because entry barriers are so low, and it's easy to express oneself on them.
While we can crow about how influential blogs have shown themselves to be, fact is that India is hardly a nation of bloggers. For a country of a thousand million, we have just a minuscule number of blogs.
Bloggers seem to be working in isolated islands, rather than building synergies with more traditional media. This probably results in bloggers 'talking to themselves'."

The complete post can be read here.

The table below clearly shows the standing of India with respect to the rest of the World in exploitation of this channel. Moreover, as for every 100 people in India who tried blogging, only 40 continued after a while. Hence the figures are even more worse than this.

Have the issues that require attention dried up in India? Or it is so that we have become completely averse to the everything happening around us?

I am damn sure that we can do far better than this; at least on this campus. Merely 10% of the 'highly enlightened and intellectual capital' of India on this campus contributing their bit, I feel is far below par.

Manish Saini

Sources -

1. Number of Blogs per country
2. Population