Sanity Insanity and Moi

Finally the Bloggers made their presence felt through Blogathon. Some of them were featured in NDTV.

Here is the clip from Youtube.

Does Bloggers hold any responsibility? Are they just mere writers in the cyberspace who cannot make a change? What ever they blog about does it just confine to the reader as a ‘good post’?

Hell NO!!!

Bloggers in India have decided to make a change. They are uniting for the event Blogathon India 2008 which is going live on April 20-26. Quoting straight off their home page :

Like the name suggests, Blogathon India is an event where these bloggers can get together and raise their concerns, ideas and suggestions on different social issues through the medium we all love: blogs.

Blogathon India is a creation from the desire to:

• Instill a mass awakening amongst citizens and bloggers alike towards issues of social importance that affect our day to day lives.
• Building an interesting and close-knit community of bloggers to learn, share and socialize with a larger purpose.
• Motivate NGOs and other experts to embrace the net and start blogging with their invaluable ideas.
• To provide a platform for thought leadership for ideas to emerge, to get discussed, improved and implemented.
• Introduce citizens to blogging and help them to adopt Blogging platforms and tools to express their views.
• Encourage people to blog in regional languages including Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Bengali among others.

Come lets join in …

Blog about it, read, comment, spread the word - Be a Part

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Technorati Tags : blogathonindia, blogathonindia1

Because of the on going Blogathon work i was featured in Bangalore Mirror.

Here is the snap shot

[thanks Mohan]

Its me at the far left ..

Saunday morning .. yaawwwnnnnnn!!!! .. But its the day of Barcamp… no sleep… So i dragged my ass out of bed.
Its the day of CAT exams and by the time i woke up, at around 8am all my roommates had in fact left for the test. I have to say that i was one of the first persons to reach.
After a quick lunch with Abhishek Thakkar , who is having this talk on SMS Gupshup, the SMS way of twittering, i’m back in front of the discussion boards.
What is with the WiFi???- It keeps failing at times, on systems for no reason at all and then comes up all by itself.
Now that people are finally arriving and rooms are getting booked up, i see energy again in the atmosphere.
Bloggers decided to have discussion at D4 - 11am. It turned out that Sky was already there. She was trying to set the time zone and the WiFi connection on her laptop. Then people started dropping in thinking its some discussion and Vola!!! everyone is giving a self intro.
Then Nitya of Muziboo, complained that generally indian bloggers are reluctant and unwilling to help someone. She quoted her own experience as an example.
They started the Muziboo and she personally approached bloggers and asked them to do a review on the site and its features. But unfortunately of the 100+ people that she asked only 2 did it for her. This eventually became a hot topic and there indeed some discussion on that. People started dropping by with the noise level that we created. So finally everyone was sorry for the state of affairs and promised to help each other, starting with Muziboo.
Before we knew it was Lunch time and off we go to hog like pigs …

I’m Speaking too

Getting the WiFi connection

The Mutineers …

E-Governance Session

Post Lunch ..

The Blog-a-Loreans are meeting again today at 11am at BrewHaHa Cafe.

Just like the last time. Hope to have fun this time.

Hey do drop in a line saying which was your fav foto… Foto source (Mine and Sandil)
Comment on each too..

1) An ardent blog-a-lorean

2) Its Arun guys …

3)E-Governance the panchayath way

4) Laurel and Hardy or rather Hardy and Laurel

5)Micro Microblogging

6)The Mutineers

7)bar[camp] over = camping after the bar

Awaiting comments

Two days of exhilarating bliss, a Techies-in-wonderland, final nail in the coffin for the saying “Too many cooks spoil the (what ever)“

Just that everyone had a lot of fun learning. A new definition to fun learning. It was my first barcamp and i’m already looking forward for the next one. Owning to the less number of women participants, there was this opinion of having it at Jyothi Nivas College or Mt Carmel…

I met some very interesting personalities there made hell lot of friends.

So till the next Barcamp in November

The E-governance Collective did it the traditional way, Outside!!!.
The Panchayath Way

Hey we had free t-shirts. and i’m standing way back there.

Its almost EOD, and lots of sessions and talkings later the energy is no less.
The day started with an announcement that eod will feature real trips to real bars looking fwd to that.

The Startup and bloggers collective had a fair amount of turn up.

Right now what got over was a jumping animated Umesh talking about Promoting the your blog. Some points to be noted

• Shameless Self Promoting
• Making people comment by making the posts such that people feel like commenting
• Make girl friends and make them read it
• Have a partner in crime who comments for every thing on your blog
• Write good and if you cant wait till you get the rythm
• Start controversies
• Respect your commentors, put a comment back.
• Visit the commentors blogs
• If its a girl comment on her style/foto if she has one

Right now its Main Stream Media vs Blogging by Saurabh. Talking about how effective is MSM news and Blogging. Its all based on trust when a person decides to go by your word or opinion. The discussion is still going on …