Hi

Your concerns are quite valid.. But I suggest that the blogs must be showcased on quality and not quantity..

Everyday the posts must be lined up one after the other depending on their quality. Moreover a post per day per author must be allowed. I have been a part of legally india for 3 days now and I have observed that not much activity is done by bloggers each day…

so moderating one post daily may not be that a big issue…

Regards

Meghna

Thank you Legal Drift. Nice suggestions.

But who gets to decide on ‘quality’? The editor or the readers?

To address all these concerns all at once, the space dedicated showcasing the blogs can be increased. The latest comments section can be reduced in size or done away with. That way more blogs can be showcased. There are very few regular bloggers anyway, each of them has a USP, like legalpoet for instance, so in any case people who want to read someone’s blog would read it through that blogger’s profile.

Hi Kian,

The bottom line of LegalPoet’s and Meghna’s concern seems to be visibility. No matter how much content you try to compress in it, the “your blogs” space on your home page cannot list all blogs. It is likely that you will get more bloggers in future, and all of them will want to be featured on your home page..

Instead of putting curbs on the number of blogs a person can post, as Legal Poet suggested, I suggest that the “your blogs” listing be converted into a scrolling feature, featuring all the blogs posted in the last week or so. This way - all the bloggers will get visibility, and perhaps you can increase the font size too - to make reading easier.

Legal Dodo

Ah! Vindication! Kian, I hope you have seen the recent flood of blog posts! When one eats too much…one vomits! (don’t know what it means…you may interpret this as you want to) :)

And btw…I can’t see anirban’s and nandiireywal’s recent posts. The message reads …has the blogging software given way?

Seems to be a glitch that has limited Anirban’s and my posts to just that one word. Think its only when they’re viewed in IE.

LegallyIndia and Kian Ganz! What an ace to mint money guys! You have some brilliant guys blogging for you, all for free. And what are you giving them 15,000 rupees? When you would have surely earned 10 times from this competition.

A nice way to keep the bloggers in the dark because even a regular reader like me I don’t know how you are ranking them. What are the present ranks? I think to remain transparent you must publish ranks now and tell the readers and the bloggers what criteria you are using. But I am sure you will not do that because if you do other people (other than the toppers) will get discouraged which will mean lesser blogs and lesser money for legallyindia.com

And i was amused that you will use popular voting for judging. So the most popular person among the blogger wins not the best blogger. Also lawyers with more contacts will win not the law students who are too young to have had contacts. But, nice job of minting money and ome of the single posts you have had would have easily been worth 10k (read nandireywal (blogging), legalpoet (15 cv tips)).

I couldn’t help but laugh at the above.

a.) The blogging competition has given us all a superb forum to write and reach to LI readers. A solo blog might not have yelled half as loud as posts here do.

b.) Kian has already clarified that he’ll come up with the judging criteria, a revised allocation of prizes and a round up of what he feels about the blogging/bloggers till now.

Cheerio

Hi ”$ and in the dark”.

Thanks for your feedback. Some responses in no particular order.

1. I agree that I will have to give feedback and re-explain the competition soon. However, I think it is premature for a full ranking as many bloggers are still adapting and improving their style and content bit by bit. In any case, I can see it will be a very very tough choice - after all, comparing apples and oranges and saying one is better than the other is near to impossible. Therefore we will need to take a variety of objective factors into account, plus some subjectivity plus probably some popular voting of some sort.

2. I disagree (or misunderstand) your argument, but in a popular vote I would assume students would probably have an edge over practising lawyers.

3. The blogging competition is partly an effort to unearth writing talent as well as allowing people to experiment and have their say. If we only commissioned bloggers to write on certain subjects, we would never have the creative and interesting variety of posts that currently exists. A competition is also fun and allows bloggers to experiment and write on a public forum.

4. If you find a way to mint money from the blogs, please tell me. We have yet to make a paise from the blogs, although we are keen to take on board some sponsorship for the blogs perhaps in future. Honestly, if you have good ideas, we are looking for a [url=http://www.legallyindia.com/index.php?option=com\_jobs&task=detail\_job&id=14&Itemid=139\]commercial director to help make Legally India sustainable[/url] but bewarned, making money online is not easy as plenty of dot-commers have learnt.

5. Apologies for the relative lack of responsiveness in recent weeks - I have been stuck in London but am due back in India this weekend, so hope to catch up with some of the backlog.

Thanks LegalPoet for your support, I am glad that bloggers appear to be enjoying the platform.

Best regards,

Kian

i think round up also has been delayed. one of my suggetion is that turn blogging competion into mpl sort of system with ranks and scores updation on regular basis.

Kian

With the “War on talent” about to brake out - especially in the West - there should be a strong basis for Legally India - given its members - to become sustainable if not profitable! (if interested, I would be glad to exchange views)

regards

erik

I’m some what amazed that you indicate that notwithstanding the tremendous traffic you get you are not able to make money out of the blogs and your website..If it is real let me know and I can give you some suggestions to make money out of the traffic. But because you are looking at the community of students and job seekers it is possible that you may not be able to earn much from this website..