Indian Media Bash Blog

Hmm so we have Indian bloggers coming in mainstream. There has been a lot of hoopla about the bloggers writing about their pet peeves, their brand of underwear and some covering the mainstream politics. Agreed. We blog because there is an inherent need to communicate and hopefully get recognition for the same.

What happens when you get a large number of mentally challanged idiots together for a “grand event”? It is called as “Blog Camp”. It happened in of all the places- Chennai.

Blogging remains a show case for the person’s thoughts and attitudes and response to the events happening either in his/ her life. Blogging remains on the fringes and more for showcasing histronic skills than anything else. It is mainly a ‘me-too’ syndrome; kind of an “in thing”. If you have a blog, I have it too.

No wonder, it is one happy re union for those who wish to scratch my back and I wish to scratch theirs in the blog roll. Agreed to a point that blogs are coming slowly in the mainstream but the biggest drawback is the lack of credibility. The personal biases just cannot be wished away; this applies to a cross section of the posts/ blogs across in the blogosphere.

I follow some of the blogs myself; however, it is strictly because of the content. It is hard to find anything really good on the blogosphere which would make me think and hopefully spur me on to action to bring about a change. The force of the write ups lacks the sting/ the barbs and of course the insight in an issue.

This post was in part motivated by Arnab’s blog entry which talked of the event. Arnab writes in with his biases intact but there is a force and conviction in his write ups which makes it all the worthwhile to read, assimilate and enjoy his twisted sense of humour. He wrote about Shailaja Neelakantan writing on in her blog post on the event about the availability of Wifi and electricity! She is the new “reporter” on Giga Om who reports on Indian Telecom Scene and messes it up most of the times.

She stresses on the fact that people writing in on their blogs can make the companies sit up and take notice. While this maybe an isolated incident, I can’t foresee the day when I write in to BSNL and tell them to provide me higher speeds for access or else I would blog about them! They don’t care two hoots about it. It hasn’t made Sify Broadband any better after we have a whole blog (or rather a website) dedicated to them. Couple of people sued them, people followed them maniacally and I have some blog entries on my Broadband blog.

Strangely, Sify was the event sponsor for WiFi access!

WTF was Sunil Gavaskar doing there?

Internet is a vast resource and everyone, irrespective of their origin, biases, color, creed, caste, preferences, sexual orientation and IQ are welcome to log in and use it to their advantage/ disadvantage. No one gives a damn about it anyway.

I would have found it worthwhile to go there if there were some good looking chicks to converse with and hopefully spur on something. It remained a totally male dominated preserve (well just a conclusion as far as the pictures posted online go). Incidentally, there are some close shots of people napping away. Another conclusion. Might have well been very boring indeed.