Nerve Endings Firing Away

In my view, Kiruba may not have a great writing flair like the redoubtable greatbong but as a kind of personal diary, he presents it very well and it is an education in itself on blogging for new and budding bloggers.

Rankings and statistics can be sometimes very deceptive because the person with a better marketing flair may sport better statistics than the person with the better content. In my one year of blogging, I have seen blogs with excellent content with a high degree of consistency but with no comments.

Just as TV programs such as Indian idols is a platform for singing talent to manifest, blogging is an excellent platform for unknown writing talent to showcase itself. The Chupas rustams of writngs should be spotted and highlighted. Who knows how many Shobha Des and Khushwant Singhs are there amongst us. Greatbong and Domainmasimus obviously have a unique writing flair. More of suoh people should be proactviely identified and highlighted.

Everything that is good is not successful and vice-versa. Naseerudin Shah is a brilliant actor but nowhere successful as Govinda. So success in terms of links and comments in blogging can be deceptive. Some prominent figure from the mainstream media alongwith Desipundit should judge in accordance with the principles of third eye judgement so both the “critic” view and popular view are covered.

Blogging can prove to be a powerful tool in the hands of the indivdual and that too should be explored.

ah. you too think its hyped and not worth the discussion? well-met then! the indian blogsphere is sadly juvenile in some ways. tis a big regret that we have so few seriously political blogs.(why are we so scared to be heard when it really matters?!) it seems such a sad waste of the free speech forum. *shrug*

btw – the photos that appear on your page header each time are simply fabulous! i know ive told you so before, but each time i come i find a nicer one to fall for, so i just wanted to tell you so again :)

cheers!
m.

Hiren, unfortunately popularity doesn’t always coincide with quality although that also can be subjective. But as you point out, it is certainly admirable the way Kiruba manages to promote himself through his blog and he makes it quite clear that he is out to do just that. As far as judging quality content, that can be a murky task. We at DesiPundit try to do that but let me be honest, the choice of posts is completely ours and may not reflect the opinion of the majority. That said, there are enough people who visit us and agree with our choices to keep us going.

M, there are quite a few quality political blogs out there but not all get the exposure and eyeballs they deserve. Perhaps, blogs yet aren’t seen as a medium for serious op-eds and still remain as personal blogs. That may not necessarily be a bad thing. I guess we just need time to mature but I’m afraid we aren’t reaching there any quicker.

Regarding those header images, unfortunately they aren’t mine. I have borrowed them from Flickr with due credit on my Colophon page.

Prope//er, thanks for the insightful comment. I agree that I can be verbose at times but I wanted to cover all the bases on advantages of using Technorati ranking as a measure for popularity.

The dearth of alternative blogging as we see in the Western world may be attributable to the lack of numbers. I doubt there are even 100,000 Indian bloggers so the incentive to create content is sorely lacking. Why aren’t we able to do the things that you point out? I frankly have no answer. Perhaps it is a cultural thing or simply or inability to hear an alternative opinion or even our inherent character flaw to run down any opinion that is different from our own. This warrants an extended discussion.

I wonder why this hype about no. 1 blogger? and technochrati ratings (as pointed my u) are just based on liking sites. If i have to pick one, perhaps i would pick greatbong or mukta…but then there are bloggers like mukta who are not easily visible because its her personal site and she hasn’t even edited the original blogger template.
We should keep blogging clean of attributes like no.1 or the best. Let this be a platform to express ourselves to the world and the hidden writer in us to come up :)

Suyog, I don’t control what other contributors choose to post on DesiPundit. But scratching-the-back behavior is a prevalent everwhere maybe more so in the Indian blogosphere. The old boys network exists everywhere; even in the offline world.

Sharique, let us admit that popularity and quality doesn’t always go together especially because perception of quality is subjective. But at a more personal level, attributes like a top blogger doesn’t matter but lets admit it, its a vicious circle. Once you get hits, you crave for more :)

“let us admit that popularity and quality doesn’t always go together especially because perception of quality is subjective. But at a more personal level, attributes like a top blogger doesn’t matter but lets admit it, its a vicious circle.”

Very well said. Found you via technorati…

The Girl Who.

An article in yest. TOI- sunday pages. 3 bloggers name were there including indiaUncut.

Quite surprising to see so many posts on popular bloggers. :)
Few days back I already talked about my post on Bloggers & popularity. (You already checked I think).

Thanks for the reference and the Update2 dedicated to me :)

To join the discussion. How exactly do we measure popularity? And have we “Indian Bloggers” ever decided to be world players?

I think I will write a more detailed post on my blog in the evening, instead of making this a long comment. Will post back here then.

BTW, what is the funda behind Desi Pundit and how do you get your contributors and how exactly do they contribute?

Chetan, my opinion regarding this echoes yours hence the title of the post. The reason I made this post was simply to point out that if we really want to talk about popularity, let us use the more reliant Technorati rankings. Of course, this doesn’t offer any opinion on quality. Probably you opted out of the credits but as I understand, the blog cred works on attribution and a link might be the only ‘payment’ or feedback you get for your work in the blogosphere so in that way, even technical help like attribution for your theme is acceptable. But others might differ.

Thanks for that great link. Lovely read.

I had missed the contovery but enjoyed your writeup tremendously. Thanks!