Only those blogs that are listed on this site's blogroll will be considered and followed in our weekly assessment of Delhi's blogosphere.
And to have your blog enlisted in our blogroll, a blog would have to meet the following criteria.
Rule No. 1, The author of the blog, aka blogger, must be a resident of Delhi.
Resident in this context does not mean legal residency. All it means is that the blogger should be living in Delhi or its surrounding NCR regions; namely, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ghaziabad, for some reasonable amount of time.
It also does not mean a blog will be disqualified from consideration if the blogger has temporarily moved to a different city outside of Delhi/NCR. As long as the blogger can be considered a Delhi resident, it will stay on our blogroll.
Rule No. 02: Your blog must have been on the blogging scene for at least a few months with fairly regular blog entries.
This rule is quite subjective. If you have a really good blog we will consider you even if you just started blogging.
Rule No. 03: A blog must have a decent, appropriate for all, theme or subject.
There are some restrictions for inclusion based on the subject matter of a blog. We list them below:
- Any business/company or commercial blogs will not be considered. In other words, if your blog is about promoting some product or service, we can not consider it.
- Any blog that incites hate or violence against the other, be it a person, ethnic or religious group, will not be considered.
- Any blog that deals in the pornographic will also not be considered.
We have recently come across two situations that we didn't think of earlier, which now requires us to add new rules to our list of rules for registering blogs.
Rule No. 04: A blog must be published in the English language.
Although we recognize the fact that Delhi bloggers also blog in Hindi and other Indian languages, it is, however, not feasible for us to follow blogs in other languages besides English.
But just because we might not be able to follow non-English blogs that doesn't mean we cannot recognize them as being part of the Delhi blogging community. So keeping that in mind, we have created a separate blogroll for blogs we cannot follow (for whatever reason) but still recognize them as a part of Delhi's blogging community.
Rule No. 05: Your blog can not be a rehash of your already published work somewhere else.
There are some bloggers who work for a magazine or a newspaper and they re-post their articles onto a blog. Their blogs act as a repository of all their published work. For us, those aren't blogs in the way we understand them to be.
We would, however, like to make an exception to this rule for those blogs who do this once in a while. A few blog posts now and then, of their already published work, does not disqualify them from being considered.
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For now these are the only rules that will be followed for a blog to be considered in our weekly review of Delhi's blogosphere. We're sure we haven't thought of everything. We'll add more as we go along.
I know these rules are a bit open to interpretation, but as they say, no rules are set in stone. We'll use them and modify them as need be. It's not like we're running a reputed international journal here.
If you have any questions or concerns, you can air them in the comment section below or write to us at delhispeakslto(at)gmail.com
Suggest A Blog
If you fit the criteria then leave the following information in the comment section of this post ("Suggest A Blog") or simply write to us at delhispeakslto[at]gmail[dot]com.
- Your blogging name.
- Blog/Website Name
- Website address/URL
