Gautam’s Net

On “hum Blogistani“

I can’t cross post it…but here is an excerpt:

Although I am a blogger on business and management issues, I think the day is still very, very far away that big Indian business will start blogging. May be more professional services firms, specially the small and medium ones that do not have the money power to mass advertise their expertise and whose clients have access to the net would start blogging to showcase their expertise. But often, they lack the technical expertise to blog. So, all you technical blogging gurus, there might be a big business proposition for you. Mid sized advertising, law, architecture, real estate, market research, designers, consulting, training, recruitment firms are all potential clients.

and then this bit:

I  am also hopeful that translation services on the net will become a lot more ubiquitous and we’ll be able to read any content on the net in the language of our choice – that would really fuel the growth of social and business blogging. Right now, the non-English blogosphere is a dark web to us in India, while I feel we have more in common with the Persian or Filipino blogosphere than the US blogosphere. The growth of such translation interface/service would also trigger a boom in the growth of Indian blogosphere.