Many people asked me one simple question: What the heck is a blog mela ?. Here are some answers
- It the selection of what you think is a collection of the best indian blogs for the week
- One volunteer agrees to host it.
- Others nominate best blogs (individual posts, not the whole blog).
- You can nominate your own blogs
- In reality, the person hosting does all of the above as no one sends any nominations (hopefully, as more people get involved, this will change)
- On wednesday, the blog mela is put on the host’s site and is mirrored
- If you would like to host next wednesday’s blog mela, just let us know through the comments section
- the previous three mela’s were hosted at realwomenonline
- We request you to add a link every wednesday to the place where the blog mela is hosted.
- Blog Mela was started by Ashwini and Shanti
If you have any suggestions, then let us discuss. Do you think we should have a better name for this ? Should we have an icon/banner ?
Update: Ashwini clears up the doubts: I think there seems to be some confusion here as to what this Blog Mela is about. This is not an official �award� function type feature. No one is judging anyone or their posts in this case. That was not our ( Shanti�s or my intention) when we started this. It is supposed to be a fun thing where the bloggers themselves nominate their best post of the week. The Blog Mela will simply be a collection of such posts. That would give people to showcase their own posts and allow readers to simply visit one website and read a fairly good collection of posts. All posts were to be accepted unless, there was profanity involved. You act as your own filter. No one is �judging� anyone�s post here.
Blog Mela
Last notice for the blog mela posts for this week. Please send your nominations to JK of the “varnam” blog….
Interesting concept. Megnut’s Lafayette Project comes to my mind when I saw this although it might be an automatic process to acheive something similar. Long back, I had started Khwab with more or less the same idea but it was not to be.
Good luck. We need more cross linking among indian bloggers.
I am hoping that blog mela will not die this week and will continue.
I hope so too JK. Good job with the Blog Mela.
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