There are some under-rated blogs that for one reason or another don't get the kind of attention they deserve. Kinda like real life, isn't it ? Or like movies, I mean come on, do you know honestly remember the names of the other guys in the Lagaan team? Ya, ya, you keep seeing them in other movies in other roles. But honestly, what review talks of the talented lot of Akhilendra Mishra, Dayashankar Pandey, Yashpal Sharma, etc. etc. ?
Or hear it from the man himself, Robert Scoble, who says
Are you worried about the elitism of A list jerks like me?
Then FREAKING LINK TO NEW BLOGGERS THAT WE HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT YET!!!
That’s how you take down the A list. Link, baby, link! [via CofC]
Then something started here at Mack Collier's blog, the Viral Garden.
To quote him
Here's the deal: In an effort to bring more link-love to those blogs that I feel aren't getting their due, I've created a small list of blogs below that I've linked to. The idea is to create a meme built around giving link-love to the blogs that deserve it, and hopefully turn Technorati's system of using a blog's # of links to determine its 'authority', on its ear."
This was Mack Collier's list
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
The list made it to India via Reshma Anand at Blogchaat, only she called it the Indi-list. This is her list
Engage Energize Evolve
On borrowed Time
witnwisdumb
Urban Junkie
Diagonally Parked in a parallel universe
The tag has been taken forward by-
Vi - Her post here and her links below
Eenauk
Stuutekeer
Stewart
Witnwisdumb - Post here and his links below
Butter Knives Outcorporated
Pixie Dust
To this, I now add my list
Kusum Rohra
Shruthi Rao
Jason's space
Punds at Full2Faltu
Abodh Aras
Updates:
Punds has carried this forward (thanks Punds!) and here's his list
Anitha Murthy at Thought Raker
Phatichar
Vedam
Windy Skies
Shruthi has carried this forward (thanks Shruthi!) and here is her list
Anitha at Thoughtraker (coincidence or what!)
Usha at Ageless Bonding
Raj at Plus Ultra
Usha at Ageless Bonding takes it forward, here's her list
Chennai Living
The Rational Fool
Mahadevan
Hiphopgrandmom
Hermitchords
So ? what say ? want to spread the link love ?
Technorati tags: India, blogging, Z-list, Indi-list.
5 comments:
Thank you very much for keeping the Z-list link-love going all the way to India! It is exciting to see the truly global nature of the blogosphere.
I am so glad to see that someone picked up on this--thanks!
thanks for picking up the meme. the list has now grown and you'll find the current version on blogchaat.
Becky - my pleasure. You've got a really nice blog !
Vi - You know I first picked this up at your blog ? So thank you !
Reshma - Thank you for your efforts. You've done a great job and I hope that this can be taken forward by other bloggers. I think the Viral Garden idea was superb, even if it required effort. If each blogger reproduces the lists of other bloggers on his blog (the way Mack had said) while doing the tag, imagine the traffic that these blogs will get. That would be the true attention these blogs deserve.
This is a really nice initiative...
I am getting some fresh air now :))
Cheers!!!
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