After Kannada and Tamil, it’s Bangla linking time at Global Voices. Aparna of newsmericks, has volunteered to bridge blog Bangla blogs (from India and Bangladesh) for Global Voices. Her first post is here “Bring the world of Bangla Blogs to GV“.
The real push for Bangla blogging however, came from Bangladesh on December 16, 2005 when somewhere in…, a Norwegian software company based in Dhaka, launched a new blogging platform in Bangla at somewhereinblog.net. In a way this marked the true birth of the Bangla blogosphere as it helped create a vibrant, interactive community, where people could reach out and share their thoughts and feelings on varied topics and issues. Since its launch, the site has been inundated with posts, hits and its family of Bangla bloggers continues to grow every day. Despite the grouse that the site is not Unicode compliant, the popularity of the site can be gauged from the fact that it sees about 12,000 page hits per day and is likely to reach over 2 million hits within 6 months of release.
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Posted on June 7th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices
Norwegian blog heroes in Bangladesh?…
Aparna Ray at Global Voices credits Norwegian software company Somewhere in… with creating a platform for bloggers in the Bangla or Bengali language: The real push for Bangla blogging however, came from Bangladesh on December 16, 2005 when somewhere …