The Radiant Star

Blog coverage of ongoing fight for democracy in Nepal shows the beauty of blogs

The ABC of journalism and blogs are different. Journalism is all about accuracy, balance and creditability; blogs are accurate, biased and critical. Blogs have a few advantages namely interactivity (thus more democratic for discussions) and quick (thus serving the audience with updates [...]

Have you ever heard a similar phrase? If not, consider yourself a novice in the citizen journalism. Every Citizen is a Journalist is the motto of the pioneer citizen journalism site, OhMyNews of South Korea. OhMyNews, successful financially and journalistically, has some 30,000 citizen reporters who can write news for it and earn a few [...]

Here is an example of why blogs are different; and amusing than normal writing. Ranjana Oli compiles a set of quotations from famous personalities each of which is presented as an answer to the country’s burning questions.

Nepal’s life is paralyzed (well not as used to in the earlier general strikes for me in Kathmandu) by the weeklong general strike called by rebels to disrupt municipal polls slated for Feb 8, and blogs are updated with the news, views and pictures of the banda.
(via BloggersNepal)

A photo = 1000 words! It’s a phrase popular in journalism. And, now it is increasingly being taken into accounts by Nepali bloggers who have been posting photos regularly. In fact, many of the Nepali blogs feature photo-features
Maoists rebels attacked Palpa on Jan 31 night and the photos of devasted district headquarters have been uploaded in United We [...]