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I was mentioned yesterday in a TOI story on a decade of blogging.

Specifically, the story mentioned the State of the Indian Blogosphere report I had published with Renie Ravin of IndiBlogger.in.

Here is the full text of the story –

The 10th year of the ‘blogger’
Saira Kurup, TNN 23 August 2009

A personal diary or a daily pulpit; a collaborative space or a universe of rumours — attempts to define the blog probably outnumbers its roll
call on the web. And 10 years down the line, it’s growing and mutating into different avatars.

Never mind the different definitions. The blogosphere is basically can be seen as a popular online venue for coffeehouse conversation in text. A decade ago, Peter Merholz jokingly split Jorn Barger’s nerdy term ‘weblog’ into ‘we blog’, which then simply became the ‘blog’ we know today. This happened with Evan Williams’ launch of ‘Blogger’, a web-publishing software exactly 10 years ago today. Later, Williams was to found Twitter.  Read More

The IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere 2009 report, co-authored by me, was featured in Indian daily Indian Express recently on a story on blogging in India.

This is also the first news story on 20:20 Web Tech, which isn’t bad, given that we just started.

I can’t find a link to the story online, but here is the full text of the story —

Indian Bloggers’ park stormed with 15 percent more posts during election period

PRANAV KULKARNI

PUNE, MAY 20

The sensitivity of the latter is such that after almost every important phenomenon that takes place across the sphere, the blogosphere is stormed with posts and comments that trigger open discussions, views, debates and forums. According to a national analysis conducted by Gaurav Mishra, co founder 20:20 Web Tech and Vote Report India and Renie Ravin of Banglore-based IndiBlogger.in, the postings on the Indian blog world witnessed an increase of over 15 percent in the month of May- thanks to the ongoing Indian Premiere League fever and the most sensitive- election results.  Read More

Renie Ravin of IndiBlogger.in recently shared some interesting data with me from the 7895 blogs that IndiBlogger.in crawls. IndiBlogger.in is a vibrant community of Indian blogs with some excellent features like a topic-wise directory with ranks (IndiRank) and a meme-tracker (IndiVine).

I have put together the highlights in an IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere Dashboard –

You can also have a look at the full State of the Indian Blogosphere report at SlideShare –

Here are the highlight of the report –

- More than three-fourths of the blogs in the IndiBlogger.in community are written by men.

- The top five languages are English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu. 92% of the blogs are in English. Renie believes that Indic languages are under-represented in the IndiBlogger.in community, but the distribution between various Indic languages should be representative.

- The top five cities are Bangalore, Chennai, NCR, Mumbai and Hyderabad, which together account for almost three-fourths of all blogs. The city-wise distribution should be fairly representative, but the metros might be over-represented in the sample because these blogger may be more aware of IndiBlogger.in.  Read More