Who is the fake IPL Player ?

This guy may not be storming the grounds with his shots, but the fake IPL Player has surely stormed the blogosphere with his “Fake IPL Player Blog” Imagine 2451 google readers to the blog in a short span of 1 Month, 1400+ Comments on a single post and huge traffic on the blog. Yes, even the best of the Bloggers must be jealous of the overnight success of the Fake IPL Player blog.

He is supposed to be part of the Kolkata Knight Riders Team and claims to know the best kept secrets of what’s going within the team. For sure this blogger has become the pain in ass for Shahrukh Khan who is already struggling with getting the team in sync.

The Fake IPL Player doesn’t want his name to be revealed but not sure why he wants to bring out the Insider Story of the Kolkata knight riders. The team has left no stone unturned to find out who is leaking the secrets out but without any success.

To me it looks like somebody is trying to take playful revenge with Shahrukh. Who can be …..hmmmm… is it Aamir ? ….Has he managed to got a spy in the Kolkata Team or the support staff who either relays or does it for him ? Has Shahrukh checked on this …ha…ha..ha

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.

Does Blogging impacts Social life ?

Blogs creates a web-based society, but where's the time to socialise ?

Yesterday, I was planning to meet my friend after a long time as he had returned from the states. However, I could not meet him due to lack of time. So what I was doing ? I was busy thinking on my next post and also connecting to fellow bloggers by visiting their blogs.

Another day , I skipped a visit to a nearby park with my family just because I was engrossed in writing a post for one of my blog. Today, As I sit back and think about the changes that has happened to me after entering the blogosphere, I am realising that I am drifting away from the real social life (meeting friends and relatives, pursuing hobby, spending quality time with family and so on ) and getting more attached to my laptop where I connect myself to the web based society, reading a whole lot of blogs or various topics.


The invisible charm of attracting a whole lot of crowd to the blog and also exploring the massive population of bloggers and get to know their talent has ended up in limiting myself for hours to the computer screen. I find that my world is getting limited to the blogosphere and I am feeling that I am drifting away from the real social world. I have more of Internet friends whom I have never met.

I am not sure If I am doing the right thing but can't help glued to the blogging world. But I want to do justice to my virtual society. In a fix ! On one hand the blog provides me a platform where not only I create a whole lot of web based friends but also catch up to my ambition of putting a pen to my thoughts. Blogging has given me glory in terms of popularity of my blog and has created a distinct identity of mine in the web world, but it has snatched a precious time from me which I could have spent in socialising.



Have you, as a blogger came across similar paradox ! If yes, please share your views and what you think on this . Is there a fine balancing act between blogging and social life ? How can we do justice to both ?

I am looking forward to your view !