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New Feature - Launch of IndiVine

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Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Hello bloggers! We've just launched IndiVine - a collection of blog posts under topics, controversies, events or anything that's buzzing in the blogosphere today. We have 2 topics as of now - the Mumbai terror attacks (144 posts) and blogging rights. So if you have blogged about either of these topics - go ahead and add your posts now!

You can also suggest your own topics. Smile

Check out IndiVine now and post your feedback!

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sm
from india |

 renie i like this idea is great

should i add my post using reply or how should i add my post.

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education”  

http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/mumbai-terrorism-2611.html

Karthik DR
from New Delhi |

Nice one Renie! This will get people to read different posts on same topic. I think we should have a Track this topic facility for this too. When bloggers write about an ongoing incident like Mumbai attach, or Pink chaddi etc, they can get a mail whenever anyone updates that topic with their post. What say?

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

That sounds good man. I'll add a feed first and then email alerts?

sm
from india |

ty renie

Amitabh Mukherjee
from Bangalore |

Absolutely cool! Brilliant idea. Indiblogger is going from strength to strength.

Perhaps you should give another shout to the Indian bloggers to join up and participate actively. You could highlight this new feature.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Yep, lots of mailers going out today actually, to various parts of India. IndiBloggies, Blogger meets at Bangalore, Bhopal & Jaipur, BlogCamps in Delhi, Bangalore.... whew! This is a busy year for us bloggers!

Rahul S. Nair
from London |

Thumbs Up from me too.. it is a really great idea...

Hashir Tufail
from Unnao, Bangalore |

@Renie,

Great idea.... and aa very useful feature

Adarsh Rao
from Minnesota |

@ Renie - Very Cool! Cool This is really a neat idea! 

On 'IndiVine' (by the way, love the name!) is there a possibility to have an option of choosing 'controversies' or 'events' while adding a new topic? The reason is for example,  if all the 'events' are listed under one place, it would be easier to find out about them.  

This would be more helpful if there are lots of posts. Just a thought!

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Hey Adarsh - yep, as we have more topics, we'll start grouping them! Smile

Adarsh Rao
from Minnesota |

Awesome! Thanks Renie!

Karthik DR
from New Delhi |

Adarsh - Actually even I love the name. Vine... May be because it sounds like Wine!

Anyway, this is certainly a cool feature for us bloggers. Lets seriously start some topics to talk about.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Actually it's a take on "GrapeVine" and "In-Divine".  Smile

Puneet
from Bhopal |

I wrote this poem in retrospect. It has been long enough that we have been cursing the terrorists(with good reasons though). but maybe we should look at ourselves too.  They have the power to kill but they don't have the power to do all wrong...

http://deephunts.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-should-i-kill.html

Rahul Anand
from Thalassery |

Wow! that was amazing! it's informative, more fun to read, and an ease to find our topics!

Hope there'll be more interesting categories and collections!

Sandy
from Delhi |

I had submitted a topic. Can't see it appearing as yet.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Hey man - check now!

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Guys, some of you have suggested a few topics - we'll get them online as soon as we complete a little restructuring of IndiVine - dividing them into categories, adding related and official links (if any), references to wikipedia, etc.

Sriharsha
from Bangalore |

Any major reconstruction work going on in the Vine? Innocent

Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

Can DLF IPL be included as an event at IndiVine?

leon
from kolkata |

great addons :)

Samuel
from Hyderabad / Pilani |

fantastic.. great addition to an already great site..

@Renie, is it possible to add a poll feature to Indivine? That way we can also get the general opinion in the community at a glance on controversial topics while reading the various blog posts too..

Bishwajeet Mahato
from Jamshedpur |

great idea but tech bloggers like me cannot take part in this

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

We are coming up with categories for tech bloggers as well - the only problem is keeping IndiVine from becoming another digg!

Sandy
from Delhi |

@Rennie

I think there are far too many blogs on Indiblogger and there is no way to find out the best ones. There should be some kind of rating mechanism as well as some measure that tells us when was the blog started and how many posts have been up since then. This is an indicator of how regular the blogger is updating the blog.

Moreover, the blogs should be divided in to categories. For instance, i blog at http://sandywriter.blogspot.com/  and my posts are largerly on Indian Politics. At the same time I am interested to know the viewpoint of others on politics and would like to search other similar blogs.

In my opinion, Indivine should have categories and sub-categories. Each category will have an moderator . Users can create sub-categories to discuss or post their blogs. The moderator can delete a sub-category of move it to its appropriate location. I am willing to be the moderator for the politics category.

The present system isn't the best. I hope u wud find my suggestion useful.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Hey Sandy, I guess you didn't read what I said about IndiVine (scroll up a bit!):

Guys, some of you have suggested a few topics - we'll get them online as soon as we complete a little restructuring of IndiVine - dividing them into categories, adding related and official links (if any), references to wikipedia, etc.

As for the ranking - you're in for a surprise. We're testing it out now and it's working better than we expected!

Putting blogs into categories - I don't believe this works. There are too many blogs which have a mixture of various things. I think tags are the best way - which IndiBlogger already has!

V. Hariharan
from Chennai |

It is a great idea. It will help bloggers to gather certain unknown facts and change/correct their views by going to the particular topic. I have made a comment about the terrorist attack in my blog "arvindsdad.blogspot.com"

kunal sachdeva
from New Delhi |

Nice Idea Renie...

keep up the Good work!!!

Sandy
from Delhi |

So when can we expect this new feature.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

We'll be working on this in a few days - we're launching something else today, making final tweaks right now.

Sriharsha
from Bangalore |

What is the new feature u've launched?

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

3 new topics added for now - DLF T20, Ragging and Elections 2009.