Hi,

I’m enjoying my 2nd day in BarCampBlog 5 in IIM Bangalore, and Nithya from Muziboo and she opines that Indian bloggers are reluctant to give out reviews. She says that she has approached very many bloggers in Bangalore for reviews about her representative site, Muzboo, which is like a music social networking site, and most of them side lined the request with a ’seemingly’ friendly "Let me see…" And they never respond…

Is this true? Nithya opines that Indian bloggers unlike western bloggers have a comparatively closed mindset. And this prevents Indian bloggers from a "social responsibility" of blogging as a medium to return something to the system from which we consume.

Well, I believe that this is not true. Blogging itself is a sort of contributing as well as consuming. If we’re talking about a ‘perfect’ world wherein every person is ready to help every other person out, well, I think thats more Utopian than Karl Marx’s world.

Now we all know that bloggers and people too (duh!) (no offence to bots!). We have our own moods and interests. If something recommended is not to our taste, well, why should we blog about it?

I think Nithya’s experience is a very unlucky and unfortunate one, wherein she contacted the wrong people at the wrong time.

What do you think?

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