This is fourth post in the series on Indian blogs. Today we share with you our limitations, and the results we have been able to achieve in compiling the Directory of Best Indian Blogs.
We’ll bring out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs around 5:30 pm today.
Believe us, we worked really hard in our effort to include as many good quality blogs as possible in the second edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs. At the end of the exercise, which we call Indian blogosphere survey, we scanned 30,000 blogs and ended up with about 650 blogs. As happened last time when we issued the first edition of the blog directory, we will be criticized for omitting some high quality blogs and including some ‘poor’ blogs. We sincerely apologise to the bloggers whose excellent blogs we could not reach, but we insist that each entry in the directory is a valuable blog.
We admit that we have only been able to browse a small portion of Indian blogs – but we’re sure of having seen a significant proportion of active Indian blogs. We have not come across any other such exercise in India.
We had to leave out the majority of blogs that we browsed, for valid reasons. We also had to drop about a quarter of the blogs from the first edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs. Being irregular in posting was the biggest single reason for rejection, followed by major issues relating to loading, advertisements, navigation and readability. Some blogs had inappropriate content, some had turned totally into static websites, some had become private.
We’ve accommodated blogs looking like web-magazines or non-blog sites when we found that they were regularly updated and had some element of interactivity.
On quality, we need to concede that we couldn’t be too strict. We used a software and some statistical tools last time, but we realized that measuring quality in quantitative terms was fraught with strange inconsistencies. This time, our approach was more traditional. Bloggers whose blogs we’ve reviewed so far would vouch for it that we are very demanding when it comes to quality, especially of design and language. But if we applied those parameters in compiling a blog directory, we’d be left with only a dozen blogs. We didn’t want our exercise to be self-defeating. Hope, we make sense.
Some will question our calling the directory as Directory of Best Indian Blogs. We must make our stand clear as we do believe that the 650 blogs we have included in the directory are indeed among the best Indian blogs. These blogs meet a minimum standard of quality. They are regularly updated. They don’t have issues relating to readability. They do not have inappropriate content. Their design is not weird. They have at least some level of interactivity. Finally, the only site that manually checks so many Indian blogs has found them the best among the 30,000 that it scanned. Hope, you don’t mind giving the ITB team a small bit of credit for their common sense, fairness and hard work.
As informed in the post on blog categories, we are giving separate lists of Indian forums, blog aggregating sites, and blogs on jobs / exam results and stock market advice, in the Directory of Best Indian Blogs, in addition to the list of best blogs.
Just to repeat, we’ll bring out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs around 5:30 pm today.
We’ll bring out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs around 5:30 pm today.
Believe us, we worked really hard in our effort to include as many good quality blogs as possible in the second edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs. At the end of the exercise, which we call Indian blogosphere survey, we scanned 30,000 blogs and ended up with about 650 blogs. As happened last time when we issued the first edition of the blog directory, we will be criticized for omitting some high quality blogs and including some ‘poor’ blogs. We sincerely apologise to the bloggers whose excellent blogs we could not reach, but we insist that each entry in the directory is a valuable blog.
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| See, what makes the task so voluminous and why the 650 blogs are indeed so valuable |
We admit that we have only been able to browse a small portion of Indian blogs – but we’re sure of having seen a significant proportion of active Indian blogs. We have not come across any other such exercise in India.
We had to leave out the majority of blogs that we browsed, for valid reasons. We also had to drop about a quarter of the blogs from the first edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs. Being irregular in posting was the biggest single reason for rejection, followed by major issues relating to loading, advertisements, navigation and readability. Some blogs had inappropriate content, some had turned totally into static websites, some had become private.
We’ve accommodated blogs looking like web-magazines or non-blog sites when we found that they were regularly updated and had some element of interactivity.
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| Part of our data-sheet [blurred] most blogs got rejected on 1/more parameters |
On quality, we need to concede that we couldn’t be too strict. We used a software and some statistical tools last time, but we realized that measuring quality in quantitative terms was fraught with strange inconsistencies. This time, our approach was more traditional. Bloggers whose blogs we’ve reviewed so far would vouch for it that we are very demanding when it comes to quality, especially of design and language. But if we applied those parameters in compiling a blog directory, we’d be left with only a dozen blogs. We didn’t want our exercise to be self-defeating. Hope, we make sense.
Some will question our calling the directory as Directory of Best Indian Blogs. We must make our stand clear as we do believe that the 650 blogs we have included in the directory are indeed among the best Indian blogs. These blogs meet a minimum standard of quality. They are regularly updated. They don’t have issues relating to readability. They do not have inappropriate content. Their design is not weird. They have at least some level of interactivity. Finally, the only site that manually checks so many Indian blogs has found them the best among the 30,000 that it scanned. Hope, you don’t mind giving the ITB team a small bit of credit for their common sense, fairness and hard work.
As informed in the post on blog categories, we are giving separate lists of Indian forums, blog aggregating sites, and blogs on jobs / exam results and stock market advice, in the Directory of Best Indian Blogs, in addition to the list of best blogs.
Just to repeat, we’ll bring out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs around 5:30 pm today.
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