Image from the Sinhala blog marathon of 2008.
I suppose I should put a question mark after that title. How many women are blogging in Sinhala or Tamil? The Women and Media Collective is holding a meeting on September 9th for the same. They’re also conducting research on the potential of women bloggers. There certainly is a lot of potential, and if you are a woman blogger, I hope you’ll attend.
Twitter and Facebook have kinda overtaken blogging in terms of immediate hotness. It’s easier to get on and easier to build an audience. However, social media works with blogs that stick at it, and – just like blogs depend on newspapers – social media depends on blogs for content. It’s like an ecosystem.
In my experience, girls that blog compellingly tend to get disproportionate attention, partly because the audience is so male. Also because some of the girl bloggers I’ve seen have been really quite good. Off the top of my head, however, I don’t know any that blog in Sinhala or Tamil, though I’m not exactly one who would know. Do you?
Well, there’s Deeps (http://deepsgelokaya.blogspot.com) and Aruni (http://arunishapiro.wordpress.com), from the top of my head. :)
Hmmm.. my tastes are medically biased so Dr J who blogs at “the other end” (http://anithkona.blogspot.com) and the little spider (http://makulupanchi.blogspot.com) come to mind first. Of course, Aruni as mentioned by Chavie, oh and little Dinithi and Malithi, two sisters aged about 7 years and 9 years who type out thier innocent thoughts in beautiful verse.
Aruni is popular. But the Sinala bloggers I miss are Taboo and Kolu. Taboo was actually a bi-lingual blogger. Whatever happened to him? I thought he was threatened, but they said he was just hacked. Why can”t he then get a new blog?
Thank you for mentioning me Chavie. Got to know about this but busy with uni exams and stuff so did not go. Wish Indi would publish a post on the happenings of the day later.
Wish Indi would publish a post on the happenings of the day later.
Thanks a lot angel for mentioning my name..I should admit that I could not add up my blog for fer months due to some personnel issues..But here I go again..and thanks a lot