Moblogging catching on in India

By now, we should all know that the blogosphere has caught the United States' full attention. But, at least on my end, I remain a bit unsure as to how blogging has effected the rest of the globe. I know it is catching on, I know the U.S. was even one of the last countries to have been bit by the blog bug. But what about some of the other parts of the world?
According to this article -www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1669220,00020018.htm - it is estimated that there are approximately 7 million bloggers and 33 million blogs worldwide. The article, which was written in the Hindustan Times, also estimates that 250,000 of those bloggers reside in India.
“Blogging in India has moved from niche to mainstream. Nontechy people have also taken to blogging to share their viewpoints, common interests and even photos. We are now ready to move into the next level of blogging—on the mobile phones," Krishna Prasad, Head Programming, MSN India said.
Moblogging - "consists of content posted to the Internet from a cell phone or a portable device such as PDA and involves technology, which allows publishing from a mobile device" - is starting to catch on in India in hopes that it will get "like minded people to connect, share and express their views."
Moblogging may even work more so than blogging in India because the country is more mobile driven than Internet driven.
It is clear that the MSM and CJ heads in India are pushing extremely hard to get blogging to go mainstream, even more than it already is.
Apparently the world, especially places like India, are much farther along in this aspect than I first imagined...and I think that is a wonderful thing.

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