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Bloggers meet to share different interests and ideas
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ONE FOR ALL Participants at the Bloggers Meet
Chennai is the blogging capital of India and almost to re-confirm this, over a 100 bloggers deciphered their way through the numerous diversions in T. Nagar and cramped themselves into the basement of the Dee Cee Manor Hotel to attend the Chennai blogger meet. The meet was organised by Indian blog directory and networking space Indiblogger.in and Microsoft.
As one would expect, the bloggers came with different interests and niches, each one sharing their common passion of writing regardless of whether they were being read extensively or not. Be it Puyal Ganesh, an old resident who has a blog dedicated to Chennai traffic and ways in which it can improve (http://chennairoadtraffic.blogspot.com) or D.R. Bhoopathy, a former Mariner who blogs on marine news and technology ( www.marinebuzz.com), there were a number of bloggers present who spoke of their interests and passions which reflected in their blogs. The common consensus was one of bloggers using their blogs as a personal space; admittedly to rant, gain attention, give free advice or make new friends.
Indiblogger.in was started in May 2007, by 5 classmates Renie Ravin, Balaganesh, Anwin Joselyn, Anoop Johnson and Naveen Roy who met while studying together in Nagercoil. Renie, the lead member of the group tells us, “There is a huge potential in the Indian blogging community, we wanted to create a space where we could bring all of it together.” So far, the initiative has been a success with over 3000 blogs being registered and almost 500 blogs being added every week. Through various web initiatives and events across the country, Indiblogger.in see themselves as evangelists of blogging and plan to help grow the blogging community across the country.
After a round of refreshments and networking, there were seminars conducted on ‘Mobile blogging’ by Aravind (http://atthealtar.blogspot.com/) and on desktop blogging tool ‘Windows Live Writer’ by Microsoft student representative Abhirami Rajendran. The evening concluded with a humorous play titled ‘Bloggers Hijacked’ by the ‘Rebelz’ Theatre group. All in all, the evening had good participation from a majority of Chennai’s popular bloggers who showed without a doubt that they had a point of view and weren’t going to be prevented from expressing it, be in the virtual or in the real world.
SUDHIR SYAL
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