XII Delhi Bloggers’ Meet: Blogging to make a difference to the society?

May 11

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The Group Photo

There was a huge turnout (approx. 30, which is 3-times of normal) at the last Delhi Bloggers' meet, which made it very special. The reason it turned out so had to do with some special overseas guests from BBC London. These journalists, Julian (producer of Digital Planet), Gareth (presenter of the same show) and Bill (Net activism and blogging expert from the United Kingdom), were on a tour to find out the state of digital technology in India. And, the impact that it is making to Indian society at large was also a motive. Let me skip ranting about the show with the link to the BBC site, describing it.

I reached some 30 minutes after the gathering started. Well, there were a couple people turning up after me also :) . Here was a heated discussion ongoing. Politics, NGO's, citizen journalism and many issues were touched upon.

About prasoonk

My childhood has been spent in the Bokaro Steel City of south Bihar, now Jharkhand. I studied computer science and engineering in IIT Kanpur. For job I moved to the land of opportunity United States. Was there in the bay area through the internet revolution of mid to late nineties. Admiring the beautiful coastline of California among other things. I moved east coast to the New York after the turn of the millenium working in a brokerage startup. I went through a lot of cultural awakening in myself spending hours at museums, diagramming on the shores of Hudson. Afterwards, I am back to India for the past few years. Working in the internet startup, enjoying the city life, internet surfing are my past times.

Posted on May 11, 2006, in delhibloggers, Society & Culture. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

  1. Ankur Gupta | May 16, 2006 at 10:10 am

    which startup do u work for ?

    Reply
  2. prasoonk | May 16, 2006 at 11:32 am

    I work for a dotcom startup called Guru.Com as its software architect-cum-India manager. We are a B2B portal providing an eMarketplace for services, much like eBay does it for the products.

    Reply

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