Posted in Best of Blogs on Feb 4th, 2007 12 Comments »
One of the discussion topics on the recently held Bloggers’ Voices – a gathering of Nepali bloggers – was the old-yet-alive debate of online media versus mainstream media. As the bloggers, a few of us talked about chances of online media in overtaking the newspapers in Nepal (sadly, all of us who advocated in the [...]
Posted in Best of Blogs on Jan 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Easy to say – blogs are a form of citizen journalism. It looks like a mid-way for all those supports and/or criticize the theory that believes blogs are a form of journalism. What I dislike about it is not the views or the definition of the citizen journalism itself but the way people, even citizen [...]
Posted in Best of Blogs on May 16th, 2006 No Comments »
It looks like good days are coming for bloggers, especially for MeroSansar’s Umesh Shrestha. After being featured as a professional blogger in Nepali Times, America Nepal Society has annouced a felecitation to him for providing up-to-date coverage of Nepal’s event. The society would also provide him a support of Rs. 51,000, Prem Sangraula, the president [...]
Posted in Best of Blogs on May 11th, 2006 No Comments »
(This is an article I wrote for another purpose a few months ago.)
Nepali blogosphere is an example of how a handful of people can use the internet easily to establish an alternative medium of information; and also how a political turmoil can foster the way for the citizens to emerge with their own media.
King Gyanendra’s [...]
Posted in Best of Blogs on Apr 29th, 2006 No Comments »
There are not many photobloggers in Nepal and as far as I knew only four are there. But nevertheless they are making their marks and hogged limelight during the people’s movement that concluded recently after the King gave up the power.
On April 23, Rajesh KC’s Phalano.com probably became the first Nepali blog to be featured [...]
