{"id":4999,"date":"2007-12-25T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/12\/unknown-gems-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T18:50:17","slug":"unknown-gems-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/12\/unknown-gems-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Gems of Blogosphere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Friends:<\/p>\n<p>I am really sick of seeing the same 100-200 blogs that everyone knows of \u2013 whether in India or abroad \u2013 being available everywhere.  When you go to any site in India \u2013 you see the same culprits \u2013 Amit Varma\u2019s, Gautam Sabnis etc.  Not that they are bad, but surely there are other, as worthy and good, if not better voices out there in things Indian and other topics \u2013 whether technology or other things\u2026 surely techcrunch\/slashdot\/gizmodo are not the end-all of technology nor is Huffington or the popular conservative voices the only main voices in US politics..<\/p>\n<p>I am looking for those unknown \u201cgems\u201d that are as good but unfortunately dont have the same marketing muscle!  I will compile them in an article in the coming days.  Would be greatly interested in learning from you \u2013 this is a very special group of people I am emailing, knowing they have a ear to things interesting \u2013 as to who are your favorites.. in any area \u2013 be it India, technology, business, finance etc.  Specifically blogs that are not available in every RSS reader or in the \u201ctop\u201d 100 of technorati.<\/p>\n<p>Pls add your favorites in the comments section below \u2013 with \u201cHidden Gems of the Blogosphere\u201d in the Subject line\u2026 you can put in as many categories as you want.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends:<\/p>\n<p>I am really sick of seeing the same 100-200 blogs that everyone knows of &#8211; whether in India or abroad &#8211; being available everywhere.  When you go to any site in India &#8211; you see the same culprits &#8211; Amit Varma&#8217;s, Gautam Sabnis etc.  Not that they are bad, but surely there are other, as worthy and good, if not better voices out there in things Indian and other topics &#8211; whether technology or other things&#8230; surely techcrunch\/slashdot\/gizmodo are not the end-all of technology nor is Huffington or the popular conservative voices the only main voices in US politics..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unknown Gems of Blogosphere!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Friends: I am really sick of seeing the same 100-200 blogs that everyone knows of - whether in India or abroad - being available everywhere. 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