i want to right only when i want to…thats my blog, nnot my news site…

good post.

“In this local industry there are so much politics that if we’re objective and expose unethical practices we just end up making enemies.

It doesnt just close one door – word spreads around and it becomes incredibly difficult to do business with anyone then.”

I fully agree, but some one gotta stand against it. I know your limitations due to being in business and other market issues. Thats why I am thinking to setup a blog again after 2005 and talk about these issues. I have this great feeling that if its not brought back on track, soon we will be short of IT talent and hence out of business. Coz over couple of years I have seen trends not from employer’s prospectives but employee. I know why 80 % of IT degree holders are looking for jobs in banks, telecoms or any other field. Or worse out of those 20% working as developers, engineers try to either go for MBA, switch to different career or start working as a freelancer etc. Why they don’t have this attraction to work for IT company like any other job, for several years? Why local companies don’t understand that pointing a towards fault should be taken positively and hence improve yourself, not just insisting that “We are all good and happy with what we are doing, you just shut up”.

I’d rate this blog post as a triple expresso then

I am really sorry I did not read all the contents of the post. Anyways I got the idea.

I like to request all the authors to use less words with rich content.

In this local industry there are so much politics that if we’re objective and expose unethical practices we just end up making enemies.

It doesnt just close one door – word spreads around and it becomes incredibly difficult to do business with anyone then.

“Dont write about your clients – simple as that” as a few people have said – but isnt this where the tradeoff against objectivity start?

Its a norm in small industrial or business circles to favor each other like our local IT scene. So I am sure there will be numerous requests
“Hey Osama! Yaar tera kia jata hai agar….”, but trust me, it wont help none, even the one who asked for a favor. We all have to be explicit and blunt in this regard, if you feel personally that an organization is doing so great, do mention and even market them. If I feel the other way around, I will come up with more harsh comments. But please don’t ever try to tweak or rig the system in order to have a good business network or give a favor. I think I don’t need to mention TC here, but just look at their credibility and readership, its all due to non-biased( mostly if not completely) blogging.

Coming to the point of credibility and readers expectations, I will refer to blogs historical influence in the west especially the US, where bloggers were and are paid for biased blogging, be it election or Microsoft trying to revamp its image. I mostly comment on local blogs when I find or feel like it, because I know that if such a blog is not gonna align itself, at least I will remove it from my RSS and will loose a source of information( though biased but can report some good news). So the point is, its not a traditional print and electronic media whereby authors and anchors can evilly influence readers. Anyone coming to a blog, will have some prospective on the other side, so such posts will only hurt the credibility of a blog.

However, you’re right in the point that a disconnect does appear when blogs reach critical mass. I’ve been blogging on the metblogs network for quite sometime now, and this is the one thing which continuously was thrown at the authors (especially on the karachi metroblog). People were considering us as a news source into what was happening in karachi, whereas the idea of metroblog was to give an insiders perspective on the city.

Over the years, the authors were bashed, verbally mutilated and even downright name-called because their perspective was not resonant with many of the readers.

But in the end, the point was that we do this not for breaking news (though we loved that as well) but rather, mostly for expression of our views.

I uphold all pakistani tech bloggers to the same standard, and hope that someday, a mass quantity of readers would as well.