I am getting my daughter’s head tonsured today, fulfilling a vow,” punches in Kiruba Shankar on the Internet blog group. There is a comment from Lee Madajczy from the other end of the globe: “I’m curious. Why is it being done. I had to look up for what tonsure means in the dictionary. Sorry, we Americans are ignorant about these things.” There was another one: “I have this habit of setting my watch 15 minutes fast. But I discovered I was always making a mental adjustment and so from today onward, I’ve set it to proper time.”
Whether it’s your likes and dislikes, what you purchased, what your opinions are, what your innermost feelings are, they all flow on the Blogging net of techy yuppies. And it was to celebrate two years of this effort, ‘Blog Da’, a Chennai Bloggers Meet was held at Cozees on Sunday. Daljit Badshah Singh, who manages the restaurant saw the 20-odd strong group, inquired what Blogging was and asked “First let me blog you with the menu you like to have.” So amidst cups of coffee, mosambi and orange juice, samosas and pav bhajis the faceless bloggers who were silently communication with a clicking computer keyboard came together in the real world to greet, meet and talk.
Anand, who acted in Mani Rathnam’s Anjali, was one of the celebrity bloggers present on the occasion. He is now a student of Anna University. he says journalists and writers are the best-suited persons to be blogging because of their skills of communication.
Kiruba Shankar, the co-ordinator of the Chennai Bloggers meet, says blogging is more regular with working people as they have more access to the Internet than students. Ravikumar of Sify who designed a website for Madhavan and Karthik Kannan came in asking, “How many girls are coming.” Selva Kumar, a Media Sciences student of Anna University were all part of the discussion group.
Anna University, which is the first University to recognize and include blogging in its curriculum, will have a national level panel discussion on blogging on March 29 where bloggers across the country will get together.
For O.J.Audet, an American manager with a call centre and headquarters in US, blogging is a means to break mind barriers and for cross communication. Prasenjeet Dutta of Cybernet Software Systems calls it the easiest step to personal branding and an amazing way to create on the Internet as it gets indexed in the weirdest of locations on the Web.
He also chipped in with his knowledge on the history o blogging which developed in the United States by people who had their personal websites and the first easy-to-use tool happened to be Blogger.com. As the chatty party went on, Ashok Hariharan, another blogger, dropped in with a “Hi! It’s a small world after all.”
