Sushil, Vijender creates history for India at Beijing Olympics

It was a day full of cheers for India at Beijing 2008 Olympics. After Abhinav Bindra's Gold hunt, two Indian Bravehearts have done proud to India. Sushil Kumar has won Bronze Medal in the wrestling event. Another wrestler Vijender has already confirmed Bronze and will fight out for the silver tomorrow. The prize money has already started flooding in. Sushil gets Rs. 55 Lacs plus promotion from railways, 50 Lacs from Delhi government, Rs. 25 Lacs from Central government and another Rs. 20 Lacs from Ministry of Sports. There may be some more to come his way.

The showering of money on the winners in Olympics has seen new records in 2008 and is a good sign for India in the years to come. The money game has moved from Cricket to tennis and now to Olympics. I am sure this would encourage more and more Indians to sought for a career in Olympic games. Win a medal and you can be assured of a secured financial future. More and more parents would now start sending their children's to learn boxing, swimming and other Olympic activities. I can visualize that after a period of say 12-16 years, India will stand at among top ten countries in terms of medal count. Cheers!

Google Trends sets New Trend in Blogging

Trend Blogs -Keyword Blogging

Blogging as a concept has evolved itself in a variety of sorts. Be it personal blogs, online diaries,celebrity blogs,language centric blogs or recently more popular thematic blogs,bloggers have left no stone unturned in order to grab attention of the readers. No doubt, readers are lifeline of any blog and a blog without readership does not last long. Hence , bloggers are on prowl to catch any idea that might draw lot of readers to their blogs.
We have heard of copy cats, whose job is to continuously hunt for reputed blogs and copy their contents on their own blog. Recently , we have seen surge of feed blogs, which carry feeds of popular blogs and thus doing another kind of theft. With onset of Google Trends, a new cult of bloggers have appeared on the blogosphere.
To give you the perspective, Google Trends is a Google owned website which publishes hottest Keywords being used by Internet users online at any particular point of time and rank these Keywords in order of popularity. These trends keep on changing during the day and every day based on Keywords being searched on the net at that point of time.
Now, with access to most popular keywords, people have started creating blogs which carry information related to these keywords. Their job is to constantly watch the Google trend website, take the top 3-4 keywords and put some article on that keyword and publish the blog. This way, these blogs are able to appear on the search engines for these hot keywords and in turn help driving traffic to these blogs. Google trend also displays blog post on the popular keywords and these blogs appear on google trends also. Needless to say that these blogs are full of advertisements and the motive is to get higher clicks on the ads.
Examples of such blogs are :
http://bolmamabol.blogspot.com
http://g-hot-trends.blogspot.com
http://marablogger.com
http://www.indianbytes.com
http://www.justascrap.com
http://newstrendsbuzz.blogspot.com
http://trendsanalysis.blogspot.com
http://latesttrends4all.blogspot.com

This is just a example. The blogosphere is slowly getting crowded with such stuff. These "Trend Blogs" bank on the fact the search engines would show their blogs when these popular keywords are being searched on the net. This will bring lot of traffic on their blog and in turn higher chances of getting clicks on the Ads that they have put on their blog.

However, Trend blogging has failed to create good blogs in the blogosphere. Most of the blogs are mere copycats of some articles on these Keywords and don't do any value add. Further , some blogs just mention the Keywords in the header and that's it. Hence, we are not seeing good quality "Trend Blogs". I am sure most of these blogs will die down with time as people realise that they are just filling up the space. However, I am looking forward to blogs who can creatively use this concept for the benefit of blogging community as well as blog readers.