Oneworld Multimedia Announcement
Starting from today, the Oneworld Multimedia Blog will change a little, but first some recent history. I started blogging over at Blogrel in February 2005, but since starting this blog over at Blogspot in June the same year, before moving it here the following month, the site now attracts somewhere between 250-300 unique readers every day, and as many as just under 800 unique readers and 1,312 pageviews if a major event happens. In comparison, the main Oneworld Multimedia site attracts an average of only 64 unique readers and 109 pageviews a day.
Certainly, the case for blogs as opposed to static web sites has been made.
And as I don’t have a staff or any funding for this site which remains a personal project, I think that’s pretty respectable given that two major online publications, Armenia Now and Hetq Online, only receive an average of 600 and 800 unique readers a day, respectively — and that’s for all their pages in English, Armenian, Russian, and French. Taking that into account, it might even be that this blog receives approximately the same number of readers as the English version of their sites.
A1 Plus, the most popular news site according to circle.am, attracts 1,631 unique readers a day for it’s Armenian, Russian and English pages combined.
During this time, I’ve also been responsible for getting other Armenians from Armenia and the Diaspora blogging. In the case of Zarchka and Nessuna who made their debuts here and here, but who now have their own at Life Around Me and Di Cavoli e di Re Tirami Su, I also pushed Garo (AKA Christian Garbis) to set up one at Notes from Hairenik, and Tamar to do the same at Armyouth. As such, I think the English-language Armenian Blogosphere has become more diverse and rich.
Certainly, there’s less of a need for me to blog as frequently as before, and so I’ve decided to make this site more focused on three regular columns. That is, an occasional roundup of the English-language blogosphere — Notes from the Armenian Blogosphere — and the 2007 Parliamentary Election Monitor.
Besides, it’s probably obvious that most of the news and events in Armenia for the next year are going to be directly linked to the May parliamentary elections and the presidential election next year, there’s probably no need for much more. However, as blogs usually feature more personal accounts of life, thoughts and opinions, I’m going to start a Letter from Armenia which I hope to post at least once a week.
The first should be posted tonight, but if not, certainly tomorrow.
Until then, 1,181 posts, 2,018 comments and 99 categories later, it’s probably worth posting links to those Armenian related blogs I check on a regular basis via their RSS feeds.
Anoush Armenia
http://anousharmenia.blogspot.comArmenia / New Eurasia
http://armenia.neweurasia.netArmenian Food
http://armenianfood.blogspot.comArmyouth
http://armyouth.blogspot.comArs Eye View
http://arseyeview.blogspot.comBlogian
http://blogian.hayastan.com/Blogrel
http://www.blogrel.comFollow The Way
http://www.followtheway.infoGlobal Voices Armenia
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/central-asia-caucasus/armenia/iArarat
http://iararat.wordpress.comLife Around Me
http://lifearoundme.wordpress.comLife in Armenia
http://www.cilicia.com/armo_life-log.htmlLife in the Armenian Diaspora
http://www.cilicia.com/armo_spiurk-log.htmlMartuni or Bust
http://aramanoogian.blogspot.comNotes from Hairenik
http://noteshairenik.blogspot.comOne Armenian World
http://onearmenianworld.blogspot.comSocial Science in the Caucasus
http://crrc-caucasus.blogspot.comThe Armenian Economist
http://armenianeconomist.blogspot.comThe Armenian Odar
http://armenianodar.blogspot.com/Tirami Su
http://dr4m4qu33n.blogspot.comСвет в августе
http://bekaisa.livejournal.com
If there’s any you think I’ve missed or that should be included for my regular roundup of the Armenian Blogosphere, please post a link in the comments section. Thanks.
Of course, have just realized that one of this blog’s readers has his own, and quite good it is too, especially when he reminisces about growing up in Armenia now he’s in the U.S. It’s at http://hnazarian.blogspot.com/.
Comment by Onnik — January 4, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
Thanks for all those links. I was missing plenty of them, so this is plenty helpful.
Comment by Nathan Hamm — January 5, 2007 @ 6:05 am
Hi Onnik,
Thank you for the update.
For your info, www.blogian.hayastan.com is temporary unavailable because we are downloading wordpress script at Hayastan.com for improvement. Although the technical problems at Hayastan.com have been a headache both for me and for my readers (my apologies to all), I decided to remain parked at Hayastan.com because I kind of don’t like the conglomoration process of the world blogosphere, and would also like to continue my promotion of Hayastan.com.
The 2005-2006 archives of Blogian will be stored at http://forum.hayastan.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=2&, while the new blogian will be at www.blogian.net (with a masked transfer to www.blogian.hayastan.com).
Thus, shortly I will ask or bloggers to link to www.blogian.net (which at this minute still transfers to what will be the archives).
There is no RSS feed at this time, but I will let you know as soon as it is fixed.
Thank you,
Simon
Comment by Blogian — January 5, 2007 @ 9:46 am
We greatly enjoy your posts. Keep up the good work. Thanks for all your efforts and time to report from Armenia.
Comment by Nanul — January 5, 2007 @ 8:53 pm
Hi Onnik - this is success indeed! You can be proud of yourself, and we - other bloggers, should be proud of your figures too. I think there’s no alternative to interactive, user generated news content in the future and the sooner everybody understands it, the better. And thank God there’s no money available for blogging yet - or it would get spoiled soon too.
Given the media situation in Armenia I can confirm that you’re doing much better then most newspaper websites and online media in Armenia. I understand that you are under a lot of pressure trying to put this rather large publication together on a day by day basis - but please think again before you declare such limitations in your blogging format… Unless you plan to squeeze everything else into the Letters from Armenia? At any rate - the first Letter from Armenia was quite an enjoyable read
I’ve even liked to it from my new project at: http://ditord.blogspot.com.
Let me thank you again for the list of blogs, and inform you that I’ll be starting a new project - on monitoring: Armenian, Russian and English weblogs for posts on Election issues, as this is directly related to work and studies in the UK, so I’ll be keeping a very attentive eye on your Blogosphere notes and Election Monitor…
Comment by Observer — January 6, 2007 @ 3:40 am
Hi Observer,
I have to be honest and say that as almost everything in Armenia will now be linked to the parliamentary elections it’ll all go out under the 2007 Parliamentary Election Monitor.
Glad you found the list useful, btw, although quite funny to note that when you pasted them in onto your new site, you forgot to include my blog.
Anyway, regardless, thanks for the heads up on the new blog. Do you think that we should somehow coordinate and cooperate on this?
If so, drop me an email and we’ll continue our discussion from before you left for UK.
Ironic, huh? You there and me here. Crazy world.
Comment by Onnik — January 6, 2007 @ 5:30 am
vay
Comment by artyom — January 6, 2007 @ 6:36 am