Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Quick Summary: I was quoted yesterday in Indian newspaper DNA in a story on whether blogging in India is mature enough to act as a change agent.
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I was quoted copiously in Indian daily DNA in a story on whether blogging in India is mature enough to act as a change agent.
A good approach to answer this question is to compare social media usage in India with social media usage in China –
Social media usage in Metro India and Metro China is driven by very different consumer behavior. In Metro China, Creators, Critics and Joiners all play an important role, whereas in India, Joiners are the predominant drivers of social media usage.
Social media usage in India and China also have significant differences in terms of the topics that drive conversation. Richard Edelman has written an interesting introduction to the Chinese blogosphere –
Social media in China has two constant themes: the rich/poor divide and nationalism… The best Chinese bloggers are… incredibly impressive, committed to change, convinced that they were part of a new China where individual expression and frank speaking will win.
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
This one is for people like me who have 500+ feeds on our feed readers.
A recent award winning Carnegie Mellon study used mathematical analysis to find the top 100 blogs to read if you want to be informed about what the entire blogosphere is talking about (via Bloggers Blog). Instapundit is predictably at #1 and Indian Writing is the only Indian blog at #68 (although the study links to Uma’s old blog).
By the way, I read only 13 out of the top 100 blogs. So much for my super-conceited “I know everything that’s happening in the blogosphere” self image!
Update: A quick look at the blogs on the list redeems my self-image! The researchers’ definition of the blogosphere seems to be limited to blogs about American politics and Uma’s blog is not the only dead blog on the list. Yippee!
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Based on the work of social media expert Matthew Hurst from Neilson BuzzMetrics, Discover Magazine has an interesting 3-D map of the blogosphere, plotting its most active and interconnected parts.
Is your blog a continent in the centre, or an island on the fringe?