Alternate Voice of Pakistan
From the Blog ProPakistani: Blogging: Alternate Voice of Pakistan - Blogging: Alternate Voice of Pakistan is a post from: ProPakistani The blogging culture in Pakistan has come a long way. Beginning with less than a dozen blogs with very limited audience and influence, it has effectively exploded in the past two years, when people began to learn how to maintain blogs run them, and how to generate revenues out of them. Since then, things have picked up pace quite rapidly and credit for this goes to multinational companies who grasped the potential in blogging. Thus, we began to hear of terms like bloggers' meetups, seminars, workshops and competitions on blogging. The youth also took up this new technology enthusiastically not just as a vent to express themselves, but to earn some extra bucks as well. The blogsphere, like other broadcast media, eventually brought fame to a number of faces and voices: people, whose opinion on different topics like technology, telecom, entertainment, politics, and activism became the voice at large. Resultantly, these individuals became a credible source, trusted by many to deliver fresh, updated content for which netizens wait anxiously every day. So much so, that at one level, they even become sought-after analysts in their respective fields for print and electronic media. Frequent appearances on TV, radio and online webcasts prove that blogging in Pakistan has become an important emerging part of the media landscape. To put it another way, blogging has turned out to be one of the best possible options available for alternative media in the country. In fact, it outclasses the mainstream media at times by highlighting some very crucial elements that are usually missed out by the conventional media. May it be, the activism during the 2007 emergency imposed by then President Musharraf, or creating controversies in a celebrity's life, or to break an inside story of a telco, or to ignite a thought in a common man, or to discuss the aspects of our national Policy, bloggers are playing their due part to shape and present a positive and proactive image of Pakistan in front of the global web audience. Just to give an idea of how successful blogs are in Pakistan, one of the top blogs in the country covering news receives some 20,000 hits a day or around 600,000 hits a month. Not only that, blog posts go viral through emails, RSS, newsletters, social networks, Google/Yahoo groups and so on. Estimates also suggest that such a blog is read by over 1.5 million individuals in a month. This number comprehensively covers a niche/sector or the topic-related audience in the country, and actually suggests that blogs have as much audience and influence as any other type of conventional media. The evolution in blogging has brought economic benefits for society as well. The industry has created countless jobs at multiple levels in all sectors. Today, almost every organization has a separate department for managing digital media along with a dedicated budget for advertising. And although, at this point the figures are not very lucrative, they are 300 per cent higher than the previous year, which depicts the size of growth and potential this industry has. This article was first published in Dawn on Sunday – October 24th, 2010 Related posts: Government of Pakistan Goes for Blogging Mairay Mutabiq – Corporate Blogging in Pakistan Telenor Announces Blogging Competition Winner Try This Before Calling Wateen Customer Support Telenor Up with Persona Blog, Ufone Set to Catch-up Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK . Read Full Post
Renee wants Miss Universe crown & Sallu says no
From the Blog Speak Your Mind!!!: Renee wants Miss Universe crown & Sallu says no - Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Sushmita Sen is training her daughter Renee to walk on the ramp these days. Just like her mom, Renee wants to become Miss Universe. (I couldn't help thinking about one political family in my country in which some kids want to become PM & some kids just like to talk & one of those kids is very fat) And Sush says her baby is going to get the best training possible in the world at home. I heard Preity Zinta saying on TV that rehearsals & dances are enough to keep her fit & she loves food. But somehow in this particular interview, she didn't sound all that angrez. (There was a time when I was friends with very snobbish people. Actually I met them in school & I should be the last person to call anyone angrez ki aulad, but then there won't be any fun in dissecting, if morals come in the picture ) I also read one stupid article in which reporters asked Mallika Sherawat a very stupid question. They wanted to know why she doesn't have an accent as she was abroad for so long. To which she replied that she loves to speak Hindi & why should she have an accent even if she wasn't here. You know filmmakers want to promote their movies on Bigg Boss these days & one film which was finalized for the show was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish. It never occurred to anyone that it might be awkward for both Salman Khan & Aishwarya Rai. Although Salman Khan is friends with Sanjay Leela & Hrithik Roshan, but he didn't want to be in that kind of a situation & the channel had no say in this matter. But beyond any reasonable doubt, it was a very beautiful couple. Last but not least, they say Deepika & Katrina Kaif are now friends. . Read Full Post
Got something for you Z
From the Blog Speak Your Mind!!!: Got something for you Z - Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} I know you're my best person, but I do need some space How come in the pic we're running, I happen to be fatter than you? Now this is not happening. . Read Full Post
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