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Bloggers at the meet in Ranchi on Sunday.
Picture by Hardeep Singh
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The capital had
its date with faces behind words on the web on Sunday, as more than 50
bloggers from across Jharkhand and abroad too gathered at Sri Krishna
Institute of Public Administration for a daylong discussion. The meet
was organised under the aegis of Jharkhand Bloggers Forum.
The netizens, who
had made their way mostly from cities like Dhanbad and Bokaro, with one
even flying down all the way from Canada, expressed anguish on the
waning trend of blogging due to the emergence of social networking sites
like Facebook and Twitter.
“It’s high time
people understand the importance of blogs and how, just like other
social networking sites, they provide a platform for like-minded
netizens to air views,” said Bokaro’s Rajni Nayyar, who has been running
her personal journal online since 2009.
Nayyar, whose journal chandniraat.blogspot.com is
a huge hit among her online followers, added that her blog provided an
opportunity to budding poets to showcase their works and share their
poetry.
Canada-based Swapna, who blogs at swapnamanjusha.blogspot.com,
said it was a matter of concern that most people of the state did not
have access to any weblog. Swapna, who has posted a huge collection of
Hindi prose on the web, including works like “Wo shaam kuch ajeeb thi”, “Diary ke panne” and “Sachmuch kali ban jaogi”, was supported by Ranchi-based Nadeem Akhtar.
Akhtar, who has been blogging since 2006 at ranchihalla.blogspot.com,
said that information pertaining to technology, society, lifestyle,
business, politics, sports, science and more related to the state
capital could be shared online through blogging.
“However, the
response to blogs has been particularly poor if we compare it to other
social networking sites like Twitter,” Akhtar said. He added that there
was an immediate need for revival of the blogging trend that has been
pushed to the background in the state due to lack of awareness.
The participants,
however, promised to convene meetings at regular intervals to generate
awareness about blogging and encourage more people to comment on the
writeups.
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