Ever since I started to use rss readers it changed my life. Earlier I used to read newspapers regularly by actually going to the sites. But instead I subscribe to certain newspapers and certain keywords in Google search and I can follow news or opinions targeted to a specific region or community at ease.
However, it seems rss could not appeal to many people who want more dynamic and updated information. Twitter, Facebook etc. provided them with more real time information withing the community. I have nothing against them but have doubts whether they will ever cater my special needs as Twitter updates are not stored somewhere to get hold on to. Your only option is to search and you get information overload and might miss the actual news.
I didn't even notice that people are talking about the death of rss readers. I realized after Bloglines announced that it is going to shut down on 1st of October, 2010. I should have seen it coming as there were reports suspecting the demise of Bloglines.
Bloglines quoted Steve Gillmor as a reason for their decision:
..being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and Facebook dominate real-time information flow. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself. As a result, RSS aggregator usage has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t the only service to feel the impact.. The writing is on the wall.
And more so it struck to me as I tried to switch to a suitable rss reader replacement. I already use Google reader for monitoring Rising Voices Projects and keeping an eye on the development of new media in general. So I have tried for other online rss reader options (to access from anywhere) and found that Wasabi, Rojo, Newsgator - these services does not exist anymore. Pluck went down in 2007 and the rest of them followed.
Now we need to give a serious thought on what should be the way forward. Why should I invest my time in Google reader if it is going to shut down in near future? Mathew Ingram argues that rss is not dead, but but merely evolving. But we need more online based services so that we do not feel like we are pawn to Google's free service monopoly.
Does anybody have a suggestion which online rss reader client can I use except Google Reader?
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority. Moderator Ethan Zuckerman wonders if these new digital forms are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they might otherwise be denied. He pursues this line of inquiry in a series of internet conversations with correspondents covering some of the world’s most ravaged or oppressed regions. (MIT World)
Speakers:
Cameran Ashraf
Mehdi Yahyanejad
Georgia Popplewell
Huma Yusuf
Ruthie Ackerman
Bev Clark
Lova Rakotomalala
This interview was first published in Global Voices Online.
Deutsche Welle's 2010 The Best Of Blogs (BOBs) international award has a significance for the Bangla (Bengali) bloggers in Bangladesh, India and the Bengali diaspora around the world. In its 6th round of blogging competition Bangla language blogs have been included in the BOBs [bn] for the first time. With approximately 230 million speakers, Bangla is one of the most spoken languages in the world. This award is significant in a sense that we have not seen any successful nationwide best of Bangla blogs competition in Bangladesh or in India till-to-date.
Among the 11 Bangla blog nominations we have a mix of prolific bloggers with different backgrounds.
GV: Would you please introduce your blog and tell us what kinds of topic you cover?
উত্তরটা আমার জন্য বড়ো কঠিন। আমি যেটা করার চেষ্টা করি, আমার বিক্ষিপ্ত ভাবনাগুলো একত্রিত করে লেখার প্রচেষ্টা, সবিরাম। আর এখানে লেখা মানেই তো ব্লগিং।
অবশ্য আমার লেখাগুলো আদৌ প্রচলিত ব্লগিং-এর পর্যায়ে পড়ে কিনা আমি জানি না। এবং প্রচলিত কোন ধারা আমি মেনে চলি না। যেমন আজ মশা নিয়ে লিখলাম- মশার প্রতি মানুষের বিশ্বাঘাতকতা, তো কাল মা হাতি- যে হাতিটা আগে মা পরে হাতি, একটু পরই বুশকে নিয়ে - তিনি কেমন করে রক্তের সঙ্গে তেল মিশিয়ে নতুন একটা জ্বালানী আবিষ্কার করার চেষ্টা করছিলেন। পরশু হয়তো কোন একটা ধর্ম নিয়ে, এর পরের দিন হয়তো বা বিজ্ঞান বিষয়ক কোন একটা লেখা। এই জন্যই শুরুতে বলেছিলাম, এই প্রশ্নের উত্তর দেয়াটা আমার জন্য মুশকিল।
The answer is very difficult for me. What I try to do is to accumulate all my ideas and try to write about them, continuously. And writing in blogs is blogging! But I am not sure whether all my writings fall in the criterion of “traditional blogging” as I do not follow any tradition. Like one day I wrote about the betrayal of men to the mosquitoes [bn], then the next day on a mummy elephant [bn] - which is a mother first and an elephant next. The day after I would write about a religion [bn], and on a science related [bn] issue on the next day. That's why I mentioned at the beginning, the question is hard to answer.
GV: You are basically a writer. When did you start to blog and why?
আমি নিজেকে লেখক বলে স্বীকার করি না। বলি লেখার রাজমিস্ত্রি। একজন রাজমিস্ত্রি যেমন একের পর এক শব্দের ইট বসিয়ে একটা কাঠামো গড়ে তোলার চেষ্টা করেন তেমনি আমিও একের পর এক শব্দের ইট বসিয়ে একটা কাঠামো গড়ার চেষ্টা করি। কোন পাঠক যখন আমার সেই নিষ্প্রাণ বাড়ি নামের কাঠামোটা ছুঁয়ে দেন তখন সেটা হয়ে উঠে ঝলমলে একটা প্রাসাদ।GV: In 2007 your book “Shuvo's Blogging” was published. It is deemed as the first book in Bangla on Blogging. What motivated you for this feat?
আমি লেখালেখির নামে ব্লগিং শুরু করি ২০০৬ সালের ফেব্রুয়ারিতে। কোন এক দৈনিকে ‘সামহোয়্যার ইন ব্লগ ডট নেট’ এই সাইটটার খোঁজ পাই। ওখানেই শুরু।
এঁরা এক অভাবনীয় কান্ড করে ফেলেছিলেন। এঁরাই প্রথমে এই দেশে বাংলায় লেখালেখি করার সুযোগ করে দিয়েছিলেন। এই দেশের পক্ষ থেকে আমি গভীর কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশ করি। আমরা যারা দেশে থাকি তাদের চেয়ে এটা অতি জরুরী ছিল প্রবাসীদের জন্য। খানিকটা অক্সিজেন, প্রবাসীরা এখানে তাদের দমবন্ধ শ্বাস ফেলার সুযোগ পেতেন- একমুঠো দেশের সোঁদা মাটির গন্ধ! এর ফল যে কী অকল্পনীয় তার পুরোটা আঁচ করা মুশকিল।
কেন ব্লগিং শুরু করলাম এটা অল্প কথায় বলি, আমি তো আগেও লেখালেখি করতাম। ওখানে ব্লগিং শুরু করার পূর্বেই বিভিন্ন পত্রিকায় লিখেছি, তখন পর্যন্ত আমার বেশ ক-টা বইও প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল। কিন্তু ওখানে এসে লেখার শক্তি দেখে হতভম্ব হয়ে গেলাম। ফারাকটা টিভি নাটক এবং মঞ্চনাটকের যে তফাত, এমন! একেবারে লাইভ, জীবন্ত!
একটা লেখা দিয়ে আপনি পার পাবেন না, পাঁচ মিনিটের মধ্যেই ভাললাগা-মন্দলাগা জেনে যাবেন, ভুল লিখলে জালে আটকা পড়বেন।
I don't acknowledge myself as a writer - I term it a mason of words. A mason builds a structure with bricks over bricks - likewise, I try to arrive at a structure with my craft on words. When a reader touches my lifeless house of words, it transforms into a sparkling palace. I started blogging in February 2006. I read about the (first Bangla blogging platform) somewhereinblog.net site in a newspaper and it began.
This site has done wonder in giving the privilege of blogging in Bangla in this country. I express my sincere gratitude to them on behalf of my fellow countrymen. This was also vital for the diaspora community - they could find a breathing space here - the smell of a hand-full of mother earth from home. The effect is unthinkable and difficult to fathom.
Why I started to blog - I will be short - I was writing before I started here. I wrote in a few newspapers and had already published a few of my books. But I was stunned to see the power of writing when I started blogging. The difference is like between a television drama and a theater performance. Its live, very active.
You cannot get away writing in a blog - a reader can react within 5 minutes. If you write anything wrong you will be caught.
GV: You started writing in a community platform - and now writing in your own site. Please let us know the difference.এটা বের করার পেছনে ঠিক সুনির্দিষ্ট কোন কারণ ছিল না। এক বছর আমি সামহোয়্যারে চুটিয়ে লেখালেখি করেছিলাম। ওখানে বেশ কিছু আমার পছন্দের লেখা ছিল, তাছাড়া অনেকের সঙ্গে অজস্র মন্তব্য চালাচালি হয়েছিল। ইচ্ছা ছিল মন্তব্যসহ পোস্টগুলো নিয়ে আসা কিন্তু তাহলে বইটা গিয়ে দাঁড়াত প্রায় হাজার পৃষ্ঠার, এই বিপুল আকারের বই বের করতে প্রকাশক আগ্রহ বোধ করতেন না। আরও কিছু সীমাবদ্ধতার কারণে কেবল পোস্টগুলো নিয়েই বই বের হলো।
There was not a definitive reason for publishing this. I wrote a lot in somewhereinblog.net during the first year. I had many favorite write-ups there and some of them were widely discussed in the comments section. My idea was to include those comments, but it would need at least a thousand page - no publisher would have been interested. So with all those limitations the published book consists of only a number of blog posts.
কমিউনিটি ব্লগিং-এর বিপুল শক্তি হচ্ছে এর পাঠক। সামহোয়্যারে বা অন্যত্র লেখার সময় এমনও দাঁড়িয়েছে আমার কিছু পোস্টে হাজারেরও উপর হিট ছাড়িয়ে গেছে, যেটা আমার নিজের সাইটে অকল্পনীয়। কিন্তু কেবল হিটটাই বড়ো কথা না, অনেকের মন্তব্য পড়ে বোঝা যেত আদৌ তিনি লেখাটা পড়েননি!GV: Please share your ideas of the blogging scene in Bangladesh.
কমিউনিটি ব্লগিং-এ যে সমস্যা আমাকে ভারী বিব্রত করত, তা হচ্ছে দলাদলি। বুশ স্টাইল, হয় তুমি আমার দলে নইলে খেলা থেকে বাদ। এতে আমার প্রবল আপত্তি ছিল, এখনো আছে। আসলে এটা হচ্ছে আমাদের দেশের কালচার। এখানে জন্মের পরই আলাদা করে ফেলা হয় একটা প্রাণ পশুর, না মানুষের বাচ্চার? এরপর ছেলে, না মেয়ে? কোন ধর্মের? বাড়ি কোন এলাকায়? পরিশেষে কোন দল করে? কালে কালে এটা আমাদের শেখানো হয়েছে!
অনলাইনে লেখার সময় আমি ভয়ে কাঠ হয়ে থাকি, এই রে কোথাও ভুল লিখে বসলাম না তো আবার- প্রচুর পড়তে হয়, হাতের নাগালে তথ্য-উপাত্ত রাখতে হয়। এখানকার পাঠক কিন্তু আমার উপন্যাসের টিনএজ পাঠক না, দুর্ধর্ষসব মানুষ, যারা প্রবাসে গেছেন উচ্চশিক্ষার জন্য। এঁদের রয়েছে চিন্তা করার বিপুল ক্ষমতা!
অন্যদের কথা জানি না কিন্তু এই সব আমার উপর চাপ পড়ত। তারচেয়ে আমার নিজের সাইটে যখন লিখি, লিখে বড়ো আরাম পাই। বাড়তি চাপ নাই। যে অল্প পাঠক সাইটটা ভিজিট করেন তারা মুলত পড়ার জন্যই আসেন। তাঁদের সঙ্গে আমি আমার ভাবনা শেয়ার করতে পারি, ‘বাঁশে ভিউ মিরর' লাগাবার আইডিয়া। আমার স্বপ্নগুলো ছড়িয়ে দিতে পারি, আমার ভুলগুলো শোধরাতে পারি।
The power of community blogging is the readers of the community. When I wrote in Somewhereinblog.net or elsewhere it happened that a few of my writings got thousands of hits within a short span, which is unthinkable for my own site. But only the hits are not important, I received some comments and I knew that they have not read the whole post. The problem in the community blogging (in Bangladesh) is grouping (and acrimony). Its Bush style, either you are in my team or out of the game. I objected about this, I still do. Actually its the culture of our country. We are being segregated from the birth - is this the life of a human or an animal? Then is it a boy, or girl? Of which religion? Where is the domicile? and last which political party (s)he belongs? We were taught to think like this.
I feel scared when I write online - whether I am making any mistake. I have to read much - have to keep the statistics, links ready. The readers here are not the teenage readers of my book - they are very knowledgeable, some have traveled abroad for higher studies. They have got a higher power of thinking!
I don't know about others, but this created much pressure on me. When I write in my own online space, I feel much relieved. There is no extra pressure. My loyal readers come here to basically read my articles. I can express my ideas with them, like the idea of adding a rear view mirror on a bamboo [bn]. I can share my dreams, I can correct my mistakes.
আমি প্রচন্ড মুগ্ধ! এক কথায় দুর্ধর্ষ, এখানে ব্লগিং-এর নামে যেসব লেখালেখি হয়, অনেকের লেখা পড়ে, তাঁদের ভাবনার প্রসারতা দেখে আমি থ হয়ে যাই। পারলে এদের হাত সোনা দিয়ে বাঁধিয়ে দিতাম। আমাদের দেশের যেসব বিখ্যাত লেখকগণ রয়েছেন এঁরা কল্পনাও করতে পারবেন না, এখানে এমন অনেকে লেখালেখি করেন তাদের লেখার-ভাবনার কী গভীরতা!GV: In a country where there are 40% illiterates, how do you see freedom of expression as a tool of establishing democracy and can blogging play a role here?
I am really enchanted! Its simply very powerful, I am spellbound to read some of the writings, and the depth and richness of the bloggers' thinking. If I could I would cover their hands with gold. The popular writers in our country can never dream of the depth and skills some of these (unknown) bloggers have.
এই প্রশ্নের উত্তর চট করে দেয়াটা মুশকিল। যদি বলা হয় হ্যাঁ তাহলে অতিশয়োক্তি হবে। যেখানে শতকরা ৪০ ভাগ মানুষ অশিক্ষিত, এখানে খুব অল্প মানুষই নেট ব্যবহার করেন। তাছাড়া আমাদের দেশ যারা চালাচ্ছেন তাঁদের এইসব পড়ার সময়, যোগ্যতা কই? এমতাবস্থায় ব্লগিং করে চট করে কিছু করে ফেলা যাবে এটা বলা মুশকিল। তবে ভূমিকা রাখা যেতে পারে পরোক্ষভাবে।GV: How do you feel to be nominated in an international competition like BOBS?
Its difficult to provide an answer quickly. If you say yes then it would be exaggerated. 40% people are illiterate and only a small portion of population uses internet. Moreover for many of those who are leading the country - neither they have time to read these, nor they have the competence.
অবশ্যই এটা অতি আনন্দের। তবে আমি পেছনের কাতারের মানুষ। হুট করে সামনে চলে এলে বিভ্রান্ত হয়ে পড়ি।GV: Please tell the Global Voices readers how reading the Bangla blogs will benefit them?
Of course its very pleasing. But I am a backbencher - so I get confused when I am pushed in the front bench.
এটা আমি একটু ঘুরিয়ে বলব। কোন দেশ কতটা সভ্য এটা তার স্বর্নের মজুত বা মিসাইলের সংখ্যা দিয়ে হয় না। আমি মনে করি ওই দেশের মানুষদের ভাবনা, যার আরেক নাম ব্লগিং নামের লেখালেখি দিয়ে হয়।GV: Your six year old son has started blogging. How do you feel about it?
এখন আমরা কোন দেশের লোকজনের ভাবনা জানব কেমন করে? পত্রিকা-মিডিয়ার মাধ্যমে, উঁহু। ওখানে আমরা কেবল জানতে পারব মেদবহুল ভাবনা। নির্মেদ ভাবনা জানার জন্য ব্লগিং নামের শক্তিশালী এই মাধ্যম ব্যতীত অন্য কোন উপায় নাই। দেশটা বাংলাদেশ নাকি কঙ্গো সেটা দেখার বিষয় না, দেখার বিষয় হচ্ছে ওখানকার মানুষদের ভাবপ্রকাশ-ব্লগিং।
যেমন আমরা এই গ্রহের সাহিত্য বলতে বুঝি ইংরাজি সাহিত্য প্রকারান্তরে আমেরিকা-বৃটেনের সাহিত্য। মুভি বলতে বুঝি আমেরিকার মুভি। ব্লগিংটাও যেন সে পর্যায়ে না যায় সেজন্য আমাদের যেটা অতি সত্বর করা প্রয়োজন পৃথিবীর বিভিন্ন ভাষার ব্লগারদের লেখা অন্য ভাষায় অনুবাদ করার ব্যবস্থা করা।
I will say it the other way round. You cannot measure which country is more civilized by its gold reserves or the number of missiles. I think you can measure it from the thinking of the citizens, which can be read from their writings known as blogs. How can we learn about the thinking of the people from a country? From print or visual media? No. We can only learn about bloated thoughts from them. To learn about genuine opinions there is no alternative to reading blogs. It does not matter which country the blogger is from, Bangladesh or Congo. The only thing matters is the expressions of opinions of citizens.
Now a days the predominant literature of the world is English literature (US & UK). Movies are predominantly from US (Hollywood). So to prevent blogging from getting monopolized we need to translate blogs of different languages to other languages of the world.
অনুভূতিটা অন্য রকম। আমি আমার সন্তানকে ব্লগিং করা দেখিয়ে দিয়েছি। আর সে আমাকে দেখিয়েছে এটা, সে ৬ বছর বয়সে ব্লগিং করে আর আমি ২৭ বছর বয়সে প্রথম কম্পিউটার ছুঁয়ে দেখেছিলাম!The voting at the BOBS ends on April 14th. So if you are a Bangla speaker please read these blogs and don't forget to vote for the best within Wednesday.
The feeling is different. I just briefed my son how to blog and he has picked it up. He is blogging at the age of 6 and I touched my first computer at the age of 27!
Update: For our non-Bengali speaking readers here is a link to some of the blog posts of Ali Mahmed in English.
A growing problem in today's blogosphere is copy-pasting. When you are trying to find some original opinions - you will be surprised how many bloggers resort to just copy-pasting a news or a whole blogpost from other blogs. The line between spamblog or splogs and these blogs then disappears.
I link to other blogs a lot. I quote from them, analyze them dissect them or just highlight them. So whats the difference between quoting a para of a blog and copy-pasting the whole blog? A hell-lot.
First of all what the law says? Can you replicate someone else's copyrighted content? The answer is NO. As per Ann Smarty, SEO Consultant and Diretor of Media at Search and Social Media, LLC:
- You cannot copy someone else's article even if you link back;
- There is no definitive rule as to how much you are actually allowed to copy.
- There is one exception though: "Fair use"
Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.
Examples of fair use include: "illustration or clarification of the author’s observations."
So if you are criticizing someone else's blog post/opinion/comment, you have a fair use right to quote. Moreover also check whether the work is published under a creative commons license (copyleft). If not you can always ask an author for permission of use of the content. It is always helpful to know your limits.
Read Ann Smarty for more details.
Meanwhile also check these useful articles:
Bloggers are commonly read mostly by other bloggers and by a select audience; we must accept that even today, most people are unfamiliar with blogs at all (not to mention twitter), and unless/until blogs demonstrate a social value great enough to attract the attention and respect of the public, they will remain of marginal interest only. That, by the way, is just one reason there are no "blogger millionaires". - DJ Drummond at Wizbang
Global Voices informs:
Any person interested in nominating a blog, must first search for it in the BOBs blogopedia and submit the blog of their choice in the competition database if it is not already listed. The jury will select the finalists. Winners will be selected from this group of finalists between March 15 and April 14 through a combination of online voting and a jury selection.
On April 15, the winning blogs and podcasts will be announced at the Re:Publica Internet conference in Berlin [de]. The awards ceremony will take place at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in June 2010 in Bonn.
Its Blogopedia database has now 15,558 registered blogs from across the world and an easy search function with keyword, tagcloud and location based applications.
So what are you waiting for? Go nominate you favorite blogs!
Well that question did not come into my mind albeit I had troubles accessing my blog (which is on blogspot domain) yesterday.
Today when I could not access multiple sites on blogspost, I tried them via proxy and could access them successfully. Then I realized that something is wrong and started Googling for news. It seems only the Jakartass blog has the information. It reveals:
A few Indonesian ISPs - namely Fastnet, CBN and Smart - blocked Blogger yesterday, albeit temporarily. Why these three, and not the major ISPs such as Telkom and Indosat, interpreted a letter issued by the Ministry of Information and Communication (Menkominfo No 598/M.Kominfo/11/2009 tertanggal 19 November 2009) to mean a total ban on the world's largest blog host server, I cannot say, or even conjecture.Well its working again and I am able to post this and surprisingly the targeted blogsite is also unbanned. So I wonder what was the point of this whole exercise?
As far as I can make out - all my info comes from Indonesian language sites - one blogger, Nabi Muhammad SAW upset someone somewhere, possibly by expressing 'blasphemous' thoughts.
Read VivaNews for the thoughts of "blogger senior" Enda Nasution.
All netizens have a digital dossier. Your dossier is the accumulation of all the digital tracks you make when you use social media tools or browse online.
You may or may not be aware of the above fact but there are some alarming news like the CIA and the European Union are building a social networking surveillance system.
Tom Burghardt at Dissident Voice writes:
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are busy as proverbial bees building a “total information” surveillance system, one that will, so they hope, provide police and security agencies with what they euphemistically call “actionable intelligence.”
In this context, the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks published a remarkable document October 4 by the INDECT Consortium, the Intelligence Information System Supporting Observation, Searching and Detection for Security of Citizens in Urban Environment.
Hardly a catchy acronym, but simply put INDECT is working to put a human face on the billions of emails, text messages, tweets and blog posts that transit cyberspace every day; perhaps your face.
According to Wikileaks, INDECT’s “Work package 4″ is designed “to comb web blogs, chat sites, news reports, and social-networking sites in order to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.” Ponder that phrase again: “automatic dossiers.”
New Scientist reported back in 2006 that the National Security Agency “is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
The above is information scary but you can confuse the data miners if not avert them if you put your real life information in your social networking activities at minimum. And if you are a blogger writing on sensitive issues, you might want to do it anonymously.
This year Global Voices presents a terrific idea to celebrate Valentine's Day:
Blogging brings joy, happiness and new friends to millions of people. Bloggers in our community have already pledged to teach their friends and loved ones, and will be writing about it in their own blogs on Valentines Day. You can sign it too…More in Global Voices
Think for a moment about the people in your life. Share this gift with you family, friends, readers and sweethearts - and tell us how it went!Love is communication
Here are four simple steps to join us on Valentine's Day.
Step 1: You're never alone with a blog. Tell your readers why you love them, and why they should love you.
Step 2: Teach someone you love to blog (or micro-blog!).
Step 3: Link to their first blog post, and encourage readers to visit them. Use this tag: #SMK [social media kisses]
Step 4: Tag your blogging friends to take part in this meme.
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