Are we confused about what BLOGGING actually is?
I have been on indiblogger long enough to notice how people crib, whine, protest, and even ***** about others... this, and I think everyone should agree, is unacceptable. No, I don't mean to sideline the benefits of DISSENT nor am I asking anyone to take things lying down. All I mean is that people must display a high degree of sportsmanship, adopt a learning attitude, accept the wisdom of judges, and move ahead in harmony.
This is not happening here because people have rather shallow concepts about contests and confuse 'blogging' with a very narrowed down definition.
Blogging abilities, as I understand the term, has everything to do with:
1. Ability to search, collate and present information giving credit to sources wherever necessary
2. Ability to express in a language and style that makes a reader not just read but also understand well, respond... and maybe share the value that is imparted
3. Ability to connect diverse and spread out opinions and ideas and bring a cohesiveness in the presentation
and
4. If possible, incubate an upload with a new or radical or unexpressed or dormant thought that creates a new dimension to prevalent opinion.
Hope this helps all.
I would love to debate and discuss this at length.
Blogging has turned into business now with many professional blogs out there including quality content to help people. The crowd is vast now and therefore we see diversification of thoughts.
Corporates coming to blogosphere is not a bad thing per se. What is bad is if the blogger does not have room for creativity. In the Indie contests, HP and Dell gave lot of room for creativity to the bloggers. They just gave their tag line as the contest theme. Fiat is one step below as they wanted to write about diesel car being better as a vehicle. But the theme still had a human angle and there was space for creativity. Samsung and Intel wanted to talk about their product. So it is a lot tougher to be creative. But with Qvendo contest, I am beginnig to get little worried like tys.
you gem of a writer 
@ Arvind, i believe there is bound to be difference or dissent whenever a competition is judged from a particular angle. Basically the problem arises whenever a company official sits in judgement. They would definitely go for an entry which sings praise on the product or service. A neutral panel of judge would be appropriate. I am happy Tata Grande did not come out with any contest but chose to give test ride and other activities around the vehicle.
I have avoided participating in contests whenever it is focussed on promoting a product.
@Umesh, I don't see a reason why there should be neutral panel of judges when a contest is sponsored by a company. If they invest, they have to get something back in return.
Animesh it is a general practise in corporate world that employees and relatives of a company sponsoring a contest should not participate, the same logic is carried forward. The companies should employ neutral panel preferably to stay away from judging.
These are two different things: panel of judges and participants.
Panel of judges need to be from the company to protect their interets. At most it can be a mixed panel with some insiders and outsiders
Umesh, any promotion activity is with a motive and the motive either is to get an brands exposure or to get an insight into the brand by what we blog about.
It is not right that companies be baised to this but its how it happens and its just human. If I am paying the money, let me decide who deserves to win.
I think this article on Wikipedia explains everything about blogging.
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