The DBM X1 kicked off at IHC amphitheatre on 6May Saturday…call it a stroke of genius or plain common sense that some enlightened people had decided for that venue because we had around 30 people out for this meet. The DBM was graced by the presence of Mr. Bill, Gareth and Jullian of BBC….and it so happened that I was rather oblivious about their purpose…yes, I didn’t read the mails…shit man …damn…damn Sify. But after reaching an hour late what all I could gather was some stuff on blog activism, journalism v/s blogging, credibility…and associated stuff around which the Indian blogger is accused. Mr.Bill turned out to be a real conversation provoker speaking to village blogging dehaati about stuff that’s on the blogworld ( the pic. below depicts a scene from Graam Panchayat Bill being the Sarpanch….the typical Pipal tree is missing and the view is far from pastoral).
I was all ears but those who spoke raised some valid issues like Mr Swagat said “there are no blogs on politics even when politics seems to be the only hard news in India” and someone said something about plagiarizing on blogs, there was also this opinion of developing a regulating authority on blogsphere to which Mr.Bill gave head banging refusal…..“it will evolve itself…let it grow”…”self regulation”.
Replying to the above arguments I’ll say that – “why should bloggers do political reporting wasn’t blogger a deviant specie? Why can’t we leave politics to NDTV which gives a fairly good airtime and Why can’t we write about stuff closer to our heart? Rock music…Books…the arts & literature? “ and “Are delhi bloggers mature enough to carry out self regulation?” we’ve just had people lifting stuff from blogs…their argument Ms Vishwanathan does that gets half a million bucks so why can’t we? That’s fair enough.
P.S: There won’t be any posts for a while the author has exams…. in which he will flunk anyway so OK TATA BYE BYE .
I was all ears but those who spoke raised some valid issues like Mr Swagat said “there are no blogs on politics even when politics seems to be the only hard news in India” and someone said something about plagiarizing on blogs, there was also this opinion of developing a regulating authority on blogsphere to which Mr.Bill gave head banging refusal…..“it will evolve itself…let it grow”…”self regulation”.
Replying to the above arguments I’ll say that – “why should bloggers do political reporting wasn’t blogger a deviant specie? Why can’t we leave politics to NDTV which gives a fairly good airtime and Why can’t we write about stuff closer to our heart? Rock music…Books…the arts & literature? “ and “Are delhi bloggers mature enough to carry out self regulation?” we’ve just had people lifting stuff from blogs…their argument Ms Vishwanathan does that gets half a million bucks so why can’t we? That’s fair enough.
P.S: There won’t be any posts for a while the author has exams…. in which he will flunk anyway so OK TATA BYE BYE .
1 comments:
ha ha ha, nice writeup, best so far(of what I've read)!! :)
who said there are no blogs on politics? umm, ok, I haven't come across indian blogs dedicated to politics, but have seen quite a number blogging regularly on politics.
plagiarizing? that must've been Amit Ken(who must've raised the issue)!! :P and Bill did say it right, blogging started as an informal way to express one's thoughts, no need to police it as well!!!
and yeah, delhi bloggers are mature enough to carry out self regulation, some of them are. its not about delhi or mumbai or anything, its about an individual, whether he/she is mature enough!! there will always be exceptions, so lets not judge by that, so taking in a broader picture, I think that bloggers on general are mature or as I would put it ..... decent enough to not lift off things from others without permission or credit.
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