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Blogging & RSS InformationA Person Is Best-known By the Diary He Keeps
by:
Abhishek Sarkar
Literature is the soul of the wit. The better source of literature can be now found in blogs. The growing trend of ‘blogmania’ is slowly sweeping the netizens. Every person aspires to have a diary as a platform to publish his thoughts and be detected
and read.
General surveys undertaken on blogs and bloggers shows a rising trend in blogging. A parallel platform for literary endeavor, the blogs are overthrowing the traditional print media
norms. Business of news and views no longer remains the privilege of an elite minority. Anybody and everybody is free to get in touch and explore the writer inside
himself. The anamorphic nature of the human soul is better echolike in the blogs.
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A survey in the United States brought out a surprising
fact the 30% of the surveyed folk see blogs. Also, 52% of the surveyed folk advocate equal print media
rights and freedom for the blogs. And the most striking fact is that 31% of the surveyed folk disclosed that they found blogs to be much credible than the newspapers.
The growing quality
of blogs can be gauzed from the fact that Yahoo, Google, MSN, Rediff and all the different bigwigs of the cyber earth are experimenting with blogs and bloggers. Some
free and paid diary hoisting sites have move up which offers a embarrassment of tools to do blogging a breeze.
MSN has even as gone to the extent of fashioning a common 'passport' info
across all its services. So now, a MSN user can use his own personal 'id' across MSN messenger, Spaces and hotmail. Also, MSN has integrated its Spaces with MSN Traveller
7.0. The users of MSN Traveller
7.0 wish have a tab labeled 'gleams' which wish inform them once
their contacts have updated their individual blogs.
Recent statistics from MSN shows that MSN has 170,000 daily diary updates. This number is brobdingnagian considering the fact that most of the bloggers do not update their blogs on a daily basis.
The Literature of the new era is no longer limited to books. From Poems to Features, from Humor to Short Stories, everything can be found in the blogs.
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Though nice blogs are a trifle to find, yet close scrutiny wish reveal every diary to be nice in its own personal aspect. After all, blogs are a slice of the blogger's life and every one's life is a nice source of learning experience.
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This as well opens up the teaching value of blogs. Blogs can be a mirror of life, culture and society. What can be a better teacher than one with a embarrassment of experiences to offer on a silver platter?
Just about the Author
Abhishek Sarkar works as an Executive Content Developer and Analyst. He is presently
associated with Alpha Blog.
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