This is one story about the top Indian media houses launching their own blogs that I picked up at Desipundit. A short extract:

News channel CNN-IBN was the first to launch blogs - IBN Blogs, made by CNN-IBN employees. NDTV Blogs is a blog hosting site where the general public can register and post. But the posts are moderated before they can appear on the site. Times Now has its blog called NOW BLOGS. The blog posts are written by the channel and readers can only comment on those. Postings on ExpressBlogs of The Indian Express are mostly done by employees of the Indian Express group. But readers can also post subject to moderation. BS has a blogs section written by its employees and invited authors. Surprisingly the focus of the blogs is not on business blogging. It even has a mobile blogging section where anyone can post by sending a SMS or an email. The Times Group has a blogging site for anyone to create and publish their blogs called O3. TOI and ET have sparsely updated blogs. DNA has a section called DNA BLOGS. It is nothing but a blog post aggregator where posts on a topic are handpicked from the Indian blogosphere. HT seem to have pulled their blog down.

It would be interesting to see what the Indian media and journalists blog about, although there are many individual journalist bloggers already. Of course we have the famous and gossipy WarFor News. We also have EditIndia.

One more thing I want to add just for the sheer reason that I couldn’t resist feeling funny about it and need to off load myself. It’s ironical that The Times of India can have a story called Bloggers’ rubbish but hosts a blog service on their own site - it’s another story that how ill-informed the author of the story was. Maybe that’s why it’s called the Slimes of India Well, check out the bloggers’ reaction as well.
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