Whats your view on this?
Hi, you are not blogging today? We are seeking your help and support, and this post is the best suited for posting our info and request.
Rezwan, we are today, on the victory day, breaking the news, through a few of our favourite bloggers in Bangladesh.
Even though you may write for a community also outside Bangladesh, but we also do think that you would love to blog in Bangla, seeing the love for your country? We did indeed feel the need for a real banglablog, and since we couldn't find any, we started developing one. Today, on the 16th December, we are happy to launch www.somewhereinblog.net.
Go there, sign up and start blogging in Bangla! But we also want you as our team mate, as our journey is far from complete with this, it has actually just started.
This is what we give you:
1) a free blog where you type with bijoy keyboard (given)
2) operational in IE and Firefox, but Opera has to wait a month or two until version 9 is released.
3) upload pictures
4) tag your posts and pictures
5) give a thumbs up for good posts
6) report abuse, insults or obscure items to moderator for removal from blog.
7) today's best posts, latest posts and latest commented posts on home page, with tag cloud in bangla
What is coming step by step, in the months to come is:
1) phonetic bangla keyboard
2) sort pictures in albums
3) several levels of advancing your admin view the more skilled you get
4) much more...
You, as a skilled blogger, may feel limited in our first edition. However, you will soon see more and more functions added, and we appreciate all constructive comments we can get from other bloggers in Bangladesh.
We want to reach far beyond the few hundred bloggers that has been around for a while. We want to reach down to internet users that hardly have heard the word blog before. Thus we decided to go for the simplest and easiest user interfaces we could think of. Lots of user testing needed still to see the reactions. But if you help us with better ideas to reach down and really create a mass movement, we will respond seriously to your requests for more advanced functions.
The slogan "badh bangar aawaj" should symbolise how this blog can become the rumbling and somewhat noisy channel through which all sealed up frustrations, emotions, engagement, fun and ideas of thousands of silenced people break free and run as a powerful, unstoppable stream through the hole in the dam.
Go right to www.somewhereinblog.net and try for your self. You may get addicted (at least if bijoy typing is easy for you).
we need you serious bloggers as our mentors in optimizing the first bangla blog tool, and we request you to help us reach the masses, people who just want to express themselves without having any experience!
your friends somewhere in...
Thanks Arild for the news.
Darn, I kept myself away from the net for the last two days.
Surely I will look into your efforts and communicate.
Would like to greet you on this great victory day of ours and also would like to appreciate your post. Its really inspiring..
I am glad to see that even after so many corruptors around, still there are ppl who are trying to keep the history alive...I hope we all Bengalis can realize the actual spirit of our liberation movement one day.
Shanti
Nice Article...
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