« Castles in the sky, slums on the ground :+: Price of Indian mangoes biggest barrier »

Blogs

Update on the Kerals.com cyber-bullying accusation

By: Santosh :+: Under: Blogs
On: ⋅ June 11, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
Discuss in our off-topic forums

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

An uprising of sorts is going on in the Malayalam blogosphere with various bloggers coloring their blogs black to protest the actions of Malayalam portal, Kerals.com [1,2]. I think this is a great approach for two reasons:
1. Most online portals depend on user traffic for generating revenue and plain survival in the cut-throat and over-saturated realm of India-based portals. If the word gets out and user traffic decreases, it will be far from an ideal situation for any portal.
2. The biggest factor that encourages bullies (real life or cyber) is the lack of opposition. If they learn their victims, however small, refuse to go down quietly and kick, fight back and land a few body blows, it’ll deter them from repeating their actions in the future.

While we whole heartedly support this “black out” protest by the bloggers, we’re unable to “black out” our blog for a myriad of technical and logistical reasons. May the force simbly be with you.

« Castles in the sky, slums on the ground :+: Price of Indian mangoes biggest barrier »
Discuss in our off-topic forums