Blogging for social responsibility

Something that did catch my attention in the last session at BlogCamp were two attempts on blogging for social responsibilty.

First was Osama urging people to blog about our villages etc as we travel around. He has a point. There is a lot of inequity in India. On one hand we have farmers committing suicide. And on the other hand we have the super rich in cities. In addition, there are billions of dollars flowing into the country for the poor. The attention of both the super rich and the donations etc is dominated by the mainstream media which covers the rural India only if there are suicides, famines etc and that too at a superficial level. Why can't bloggers attarct a more a continual attentions to the conditions before they become as extreme as suicides?

I travel a lot and fall somewhat in the category Osama talked about. But my travels are limited to the metros. Still, I'm going to talk more about the children that one sees begging on the streets of India. Don't think it'll have any impact but that's a bad excuse for doing nothing.

Second was Scott carney talking about Open source journalism. He has good intentions but the message was not clear. For a niche medium to emerge, ONE blog has to take lead and build readership. then others will converge around. IMHO, asking people to contribute early on invites the sceptics more than the passionate and kills the idea.

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What's going on!

The post lunch session at Blogcamp is either short on content and heavy on unrelated conversation or I'm just plain sleepy. Most of the stuff just didn't connect. Unrelated, insufficient depth etc. Bad enough for me to feel like taking a flight back ASAP!

For the time being, I'll plead mea culpa and get some coffee.

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Blogger Beta

The wordpress demo was followed by a blogger beta demo. Seems like most of the gaps between blogger and wordpress are addressed. So now I am trying both blogger beta and wordpress.

Trying the newbie section on BlogCamp was a good idea.

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wordpress

Blogcamp has sessions for newbies also. The first one is on wordpress and the Tidel conference room is full. So lots of newbies.

Intrigued enough by wordpress to create an account and import this blog to here. Let's see if I continue with Blogger!

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Hindi Blog!

I have seen quite a few Tamil blogs but just learnt of a hindi Blog: Rajesh. He says there are several tools for hindi bloggers. Way to go. Hope he puts up a post on the Blogcamp wiki on how to do it.

The blog itself looks a little unlike the hindi typeface. But just the idea of hindi blogging is mindblowing!

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ICICI Bank - Moving with the times

Another personal anecdote from BlogCamp:
Two bloggers were contacted by ICICI bank after they cribbed about the bank's service on their blogs. The anecdotes invited laughter. However, I was left wondering about my own employer. Don't think we are that media savvy. Yet.

Kudos to ICICI bank certainly.

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blogging for women

From personal anecdotes at Blogcamp:
Neha started blogging because she hated her boss and needed an additional medium to crib! Interesting remark of "blogging is difficult for women as the personal life is online".

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Live blogging from BlogCamp

I'm at BlogCamp at Tidel Park Chennai. Live posts on way!


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