This thought came up when, one morning this week, I unsubscribed from some really nice ‘blog tips’ blogs. I subscribed to them when I started off blogging 6 months back without even knowing what actually it was. And now, without any offense, I silently unsubscribe from them and takes the liberty to state that:

“Blog-Tips niche is nearing it’s end”

That’s not an opinion that formed because of the saturation in the particular niche. Saturation (to a certain limit) does not hinder progress, rather boosts it. Here, I’ll list what lead me to this conclusion:

1. A blog in its basics, is NOT a big deal (in terms of guidance/assistance). Anyone could easily do that.
2. I’m not denying the fact that ‘having some tips and assistance helps’. But, this doesn’t need to to be considered as a whole another niche.
3. You read some FAQs and forums regarding your blogging platform, start off with it, gain some blogger friends, make contact with them, get assistance or guidance, increase the network as required and go on.. (That’s the easiest and the straight-forward way of doing it.)
4. The idea of ‘blog-tips’ blogs sounds to me like : “A system with vehicle-owners who comes to refuel their cars, as the audience, and giving out ‘ideas and tips’ like ‘how-to-open-the-refueling vent, where-to-insert-the-nozzle, how-to-pay-for-the-fuel-you-just-bought etc.
5. The big guys in this niche are indeed extremely knowledgeable and are real GURUs in their field. I respect them for being the pioneers in the field that they indulge. It’s not who-does-that that matters, but, why-do-that.
6. I strongly feel that, the existence of so many blog-tips niche blogs and blogging-guidance-blogs have gave the entire concept of blogging a fake profile that really hinders the progress of blogging.

I thank Sumesh Premraj, who with a reply to my tweet, affirmed this thought. I’ve kept this post short and to the point as I want to be sure that you’ve read atleast the 6 points. Now, let’s start interacting right here.

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SayTweet is a new Twitter Mashup, but bigger than just a mashup. It’s much more.
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Couple of days back, you read about Migg - the Malayalam Digg Clone. Then, I thought about writing, how to create your own new digg clone for FREE and launch it.
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Finally, the active and vibrant Malayalam Blogging Community gets their digg - Migg.in. Started by Kenney Jacob, the Malayalam Digg-Clone exploits everything-possible by the mighty Unicode. The mechanism is simple and straight forward as in the case of Digg :

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