India Today on Blogging

Apparently India Today has a piece up on blogging. The article is here. But it requires a four-digit subscription number and it is not taking mine, even though I am a subscriber.

Actually, it is not taking any number I try. What are the chances of that happening? I suspect they don’t have any content online. They know that no one reads them anyway. So they’ve just put up the front page and redirected all their links to a dummy log-in page which is essentially a dead end. Anyone has a number that works? This is what the blurb says:

For long considered the Cinderellas of cyberspace, India’s army of raucous, rude and often radical bloggers is forcing the establishment to sit up and take notice, whether it is through tsunami activism or media evangelism

I am just curious to know what they mean by “Cinderellas of cyberspace”

15 thoughts on “India Today on Blogging”

  1. Means we party home but still get home by midnight to get our work done?

    I think they just picked something to rhyme with cyberspace.

  3. It has a section on Amit

    Amit Varma doesn’t smoke cigars. His addiction is blogging, on which he spends three hours daily. Though he began eight months ago, the Mumbai-based Varma seems to have acquired a sizeable readership. His blogs, India Uncut and 23 Yards, won the Best New IndiBlog 2004 and Best Sports Indiblog 2004. Varma took time off from his job as managing editor of the world’s biggest cricket website to cover the tsunami and says he turned to blogging as he was “tired of writing only about cricket”. On the creative team of MTV Bakra when he worked with the music channel a few years ago, Varma felt his horizons had narrowed after he joined the website. “I enjoy the freedom and interactivity of blogging where I’m not bound by house styles and wordcounts,” he says. Anytime bloggers often use their blogs to get into the “practice of writing” before they jump into writing full-fledged fiction.

  5. Hey that’s a good idea. Why don’t all of you copy and paste one paragraph each so that I can read it? Drop-drop making big ocean and all that…

  6. Ravi, Kinglsey, et al.. sorry for this off-topic comment but couldn’t find mail IDs on your blog.. maybe it’s just the jet lag

    Anyway, any plans for desi blogger meetings over the next few weeks.. in Chennai or Mumbai? I’m in Chennai through May 15… likely to be in Mumbai May 6 – May 9..

  12. I second Ravikiran’s suggestion, why doesn’t everyone cut-paste sections of the article…the mainstream media already hates us, they can’t hate us any more for flicking their stuff.

    LOL @ seven_times_six (answer to life, universe, and everything?)

  13. Oh don’t bother. I finally managed to read it. You guys could copy and paste random words from the article and I could string it together in any order; the resulting article would be as coherent as this one.

    JK, the Indian edition doesn’t seem to mention you.

  14. “Cinderellas of cyberspace”- my interpretation is that it means who were not given importance before, but have got it now by making it big in the blog-world. Just a metaphorical reference to the fairy-tale Cinderalla,who was ill-treated before she became royal!!

  15. yeah smartass they do have online content and the four stars are to fool people into thinking that the subscription number is 4 digits long.

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