January 2nd, 2009
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DesiPundit, the Indian linkblogging website that curated the best posts from the Indian blogosphere, has changed its role from curator to aggregator with an increased focus on the new community section –
These are a collection of invited Indian blogs that have agreed to share the best of their posts with DesiPundit. These bloggers were invited based on basis of previous links on DesiPundit and voted on by the DesiPundit board. They tag selected posts on their blogs for DesiPundit for display in the Community section. This gives them the bloggers the freedom and ability to select which of their posts they wish to share with you, the DesiPundit readers who have the convenience of reading their best posts at one place. We’ll accept applications twice a year from bloggers who wish to join the Community.
DesiPundit had previously made significant changes in late 2006 (farewell, take two, redux), and some new linkblogging websites like Blogbharti were started in response to those changes. DesiPundit, however, has remained the best curators of Indian blogging, along with Global Voices and, over time, they have come to occupy separate niches. Global Voices tends to focus on “current affairs blogging”, DesiPundit has tended to focus on “personal diary blogging”.
January 2nd, 2009 |
Posted in Blogging, LinkBlog
| Tagged with BlogBharti, DesiBlogging, Global-Voices, Indian Blogosphere, LinkBlogging |
November 29th, 2008
( The Mumbai terror attack has finally ended after more than 60 hours.
Even as I continue to track instances of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terror attack on this post, I’m trying to make sense of what happened in a work-in-progress case study and a Flickr set of screenshot on the role of social media in the Mumbai terror attack. I’m also compiling reactions on Indian news media’s coverage of the terror attack.
For more, see my interviews on the role of citizen journalism in the terror attack with Los Angeles Times, CBS News, BBC, DNA, LiveMint, Associated Press, Journalism.co.uk, Tehelka, NPR, CNN, CUNY TV and Star Telegram.
Finally, the role of the online community in India has not ended with the Mumbai terror attack. We need to come together to shape a moderate, nuanced online discussion on the 11/26 Mumbai terror attack to bring back calm and peace to Mumbai and ensure that we don’t repeat the mistakes others have made after such tragedies.
One such initiative is Voices Against Terror, an open group blog/ online petition that hopes to help build international consensus, including consensus in Pakistan, against terrorism and terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawah.)
November 29th, 2008 |
Posted in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Noteworthy, Press, Social Media
| Tagged with BlogBharti, Bomb Blasts, Bombay, Citizen Journalism, Colaba, DesiPundit., GroundReport, mahalo, Mumbai, MumbaiHelp, NowPublic, Real Time, Shootouts, Terrorist Attacks, Twitter, Wikipedia |
