One thing that baffles me in Malaysian Indian blogging scene would be the lack of interest shown at variety of blogging genres. Our brothers and sisters who have just jumped into the blogging bandwagon seems to be very comfortable associating themselves with social and political issues - "SOPO" blogs in short. It seems to me that other blog genres are either invisible to them or they simply do not ‘regard’ those blogs as blogs all together! One need only to scan through their link list / blogroll. There is a high probability that you would find a long list of SOPO blogs and no other genres.

Every newbie seems to be a baby when it comes to blogging

While I have a lot of respect towards SOPO bloggers for highlighting important social and political issues on this nation and our community, I can’t turn blind eye seeing our bloggers confining themselves in one category and fighting against each other defending their views. Yes, that is ONE of the purpose of us blogging but it is not the ONLY reason we are here.

I am sure there are a number of personal bloggers, tech bloggers, photobloggers and food bloggers are here. Some maybe blogging on parenting, religious and literature issues. However, the numbers are very small when we are compared to SOPO bloggers. In fact, non-bloggers have the impression that every blogger is a SOPO blogger and are sitting in front of the computer critising the gov/opposition everyday - thanks to the misconception played by the main stream media.

You don’t have to meditate to find an answer to your blogging needs. You just need to equip yourself with some basic knowledge about blogworld.

No, I am not saying every SOPO blogger needs to close shop and/or convert their blogs to another genre. I just want to create the awareness of the existence of other types of blogs too. Maybe, the newbies simply don’t know they can be a blogger by blogging about other stuff too!

Wonder what we can do about it…

What is your say?