Why I prefer blogs to dead-trees

I regularly track the blogs of several Indian (and NRI) bloggers including: Rajesh Jain, Om Malik, Samanth, Rangachari Anand and Satya, as well as some "group blogs" like India Watch and Living in India.

Why?

Essentially, these bloggers are smart folks in my book. And I'd like to know what they are reading and thinking. Their posts - at various times - tend to inform me, amuse me, make me reflect, and other such good stuff that my morning newspaper does not.

Here, according to a Blogads survey, is why folks in the US like blogs :



(The survey's findings are hardly surprising. It's just nice to see it in graphical format.)

Btw, I read somewhere (read "on some blog") today, that the number of bloggers out there has crossed 3 million. Hmm... Wonder how much time I'm going to be spending each day following up on all the smart ones. What I'm pretty sure is I'm going to have great fun - and become better a informed person - in the process. And that most of the additional time that I'm going to spend in following up on blogs is going to come from whatever I spend currently on watching TV (especially news and sports).