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Hugh macleod (the guy behind South African wine maker stormhek wine launch through blogosphere) made an interesting post about blogs and post cluetrain reality.Hugh says
"Blogging is not about reaching a mass audience. Blogging is not about creating yet another sales channel. Blogging is about allowing "The Smarter Conversation" to happen.
A point to be considered [...]

More and more companies are looking at blogs for corporate communications. An article in indian express states many such cases where corporates are using blogs to create a buzz about their services and also hire new staff.
“My blog acted as the best way to attract potential job-seekers and also helped create a strong brand-name,” says Menon, [...]

War between a blogger Spocko and KSFO radio (ABC a.k.a Walt Disney’s affliate radio station) intensified after Spocko’s blog was blocked by his ISP. walt disney company complained Spocko’s ISP about unauthorized use of copyrighted material.The controversy broke when Spocko recorded a radio programme and bought users about the hate speech the programme is spreading.He [...]

Stuffablog.com is a web 2.0 a venture we featured in out India 2.0 series and though we featured it quite recently Staffablog itself has come a long way. After launching Stuffablog Seshu Tanveer the man behind the venture launched two more cool applications one was fundooweb.com and the other was sanskritvoice.com. Fundooweb was a search [...]

MIH Web Pvt ltd is looking at a 3 pronged approach- build, invest and acquire t ogain a significant share in Indian internet industry. Under its build strategy it launched ibibo.com. Bixee.com and pixrat.com were acquired under its invest and acquire strategy, reports Business Standard. MIH India has already set up a sprawling 40,000 sq ft [...]

Well.. well.. well.. Talk about a 360 degree turnaround.. Within just two days since the anti blogger’s article "Blogger’s Rubbish" was released by TimesofIndia and a reply was blogged by us another article "Blogger’s Park" has been published in Indiatimes. This article could be seen as a move to pacify the blogging community as it [...]

I just read an article in the Times of India and online on Indiatimes as well which is titled "Bloggers Rubbish". I am going to quote parts of the article in this blog but if someone wants to read the full article click here.
This article is written by Shobhan Saxena of TimesofIndia according to whom [...]

Police departments in Karnataka, Los angels, China and Warwick came up with the idea of using blogs to inform about crime news and communicating with people.  Dakshin Kannada Police maintains a blog, with the purpose of disseminating information about crime news in the district to the public. Though most of us won’t be interested in knowing [...]

                 This had been there for sometime in blog space, but havent been analysed on a whole. When I read an article on Guardian, about Stephanie Klein, a former designer, with a bitter past, who is making her living by writing about her life, I made up my mind to analyse this niche of Confessional [...]

Like all good things blogcamp also came to an end!!!
Though there wasn’t anything earth – shattering said, but the ‘unconference’ was even worth visiting because it got most Indian bloggers under one roof!!
Where else would you find a cricket, a software engineer, journalists, photographers or even IT geeks come together and discuss something in common. [...]

Finally an event that celebrate the spirit of blogging!!!in India. Mark the dates - 9 & 10th of September 2006 and dont forget to be a part of  Blogcamp.in forum in Chennai "where bloggers can share their stories and be inspired by innovative and successful blogging experiences".There will be exclusive tracks for blogging, podcasting and [...]

According to the latest quarterly installment of David Sifry’s "State of the Blogosphere" report the blogosphere is doubling in size every six months and is now 60 times larger than it was three years ago, On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - more than 75,000 new blogs created every day. [...]

Looks like Ndtv now wants to tap into the much talked about usergenerated content sphere by introducing NDTV Blogs & spaces. Thoughits a good thing that more and more traditional media companies arenow waking up to the reality of blogs but it cant be still said thatthey are now ready to embrace user generated content [...]

The indian government blocking blogs seems to have created a ripple among the masses. The news about blogs been blocked has got the officials so much of flak one is tempted to ask are we seeing the first signs of internet becoming the most powerful medium of communication because it empowers the common man? It [...]

According to a report by Crmmetrix a leading provider of customer-listening solutions the French are most blog savvy outside of the USA. The report put down the following facts:
26.7% of the French online population visit a blog at least once a month.
In addition:

18.8% have posted a comment on a blog
8.1% have created [...]