Chowrangi

Where characteristics like ‘easy’ and ‘free’ have enabled literally everyone situated anywhere (of course having access to Internet) to setup blogs or sites, but it has also added a huge pile of useless and inutile to the wild wide web.

We all know it and we all understand it, but just for the heck of it, and just to keep ourselves satisfied that we are sticking to the “fad”, we not only comment on the crap, but also include it in our blogroll. I have seen many “popular” blog which discuss nothing but the critical problem of “Why Praveena has been killed in the last episode of Ba, Bahoo Aur Baby soap?” That post was on a popular blog in India, and the number of comments and views were astounding.

Many blogs out there are shallow and superficial. Pakistani blogistan, which is steadily increasing has got a nice and unique opportunity to get it straight from the outset. We must all be focusing on quality rather than quantity, and we should encourage, evangelize and expect quality from the fellow bloggers, and should softly point the garbage out. We shouldn’t be acting arrogant and aloof, but we must not let the heap of garbage getting higher in our side of blogosphere, which has got immense potential and talent.

I always yearn for a tool which could sift the gems from the useless. It’s unlikely in the near future that this could be done by a tool, but for now the user generated content can only be sifted by the users. We also need to redefine the blogging values in the Pakistan, and there should be a sense of convergence and there should be a synergy in what we are blogging today and intend to blog tomorrow.

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