Categories: Social Media

Understanding Blogging in India

Mint is carrying a four-part series on blogging.  The first part was titled A decade on, Indian blogs remain mostly urban, niche,

  • Difficult to pin down how many active bloggers India has. Possibly 200-500k
  • Regional language blogging has arrived in India. This should help in increasing the number of bloggers in India
  • A blog with daily readership of 1500-2000 is considered good in India
  • Indians are finding it difficult to conceptualize, hence finding it hard to decide on what to write
  • Blogs in US are a lot more mature. They go to any extent to analyze any subject. In India very few sites analyze things deeply, if any, it is technical.

 

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.

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