Once in a while, it is good to pause and introspect. We need to look back and see whether we’ve been able to do what we set out to do; have we been able to reach our targets? As we come to the close of this year, we introspected at Blogbharti. We analyzed if we were able to keep our promise — did we make the lesser known voices in the Indian blogosphere heard? To find an answer, we had a look at the data we had till November this year, when our site was just about a year old. And we present the results below:

The data you see there was compiled out of this table below:

We’ve ignored the first three columns on that table. As it happens, we linked to technorati 84 times, del.icio.us 48 times and to ourselves 45 times. The bar chart, therefore, reflects only the next set of links. Also, the analysis table ignores the hat tips — we’re dealing with just the raw links here. The detail page of links till November 2007 are on this page: statistics — go find how many times we linked to your blog! :)

The devil, they say, lies in the details, and not surprisingly, the details page reveals some very interesting facts. Apparently, Shivam Vij and Abi at “nanopolitan” are our favourite bloggers. Also, if just numbers meant anything, we’ve found alternateperspective.blogspot.com as important as Wikipedia and linked to each of them 13 times. Closer analysis also reveals that certain blogs and bloggers who do not have their own root domain name (such as those hosted inside blogs.telegraph.co.uk) showed up under a single domain name. Hence blogs.telegraph.co.uk counted as a single blog linked to 8 times instead of the real split up of Peter Foster’s blog linked 6 times and individual links to articles by Ceri Radford and Mr. Guha. The story echoes in the cases of o3.indiatimes.com (4 different blogs believed to be a single one) and profile links on www.blogger.com (7 different profiles counted as one). Technically, therefore, we’ve linked to more individual blogs than what the numbers say. However, we thought it best not to tamper with the auto-generated results by the computer code. Look ma, no hands!

Overall, in 2376 posts that were accounted for till then, we provided our readers with 3087 individual links (minus the technorati, del.icio.us and self-links). The real deal, though, is in the number of times we’ve linked to individual blogs once or twice. That number is a staggering 1594 out of 1824 total individual blogs. Which means, BOLD 87% of the links we’ve provided in our very first year of existence were new! We discovered these unheard treasures and put them in the limelight. The two towers at the far right of the bar chart stand tall as they provide proof of this mammoth achievement. Mission Accomplished!!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a great New Year ahead!

- The BlogBharti family! :)