Okay folks, it’s showtime :-D
Yesterday, Sinhala Bloggers Union moved into their own, and newly built online dwelling. What a fabulous and exciting place! And our first public event is going to rock the SL blogosphere pretty soon. Why wait? Join the fun; join the Marathon! Read more about it here [it’s in Sinhala].
Date : 18th of April
Starting time : 8.00 p.m. Sri Lankan time. Ends at 8.00pm the next day.
What are we supposed to do?
Participants have to post a blog entry every 15 minutes for an entire 24 hours, for a total of 96 posts over the course of a single day :-) It’s marathon blogging folks! No mercy :D
Join the marathon.
Go here and enter your Sinhala blog url and other information
Is English allowed?
No. You have to blog in Sinhala :-) Create a separate blog if you want. Do it in Sinhala! That’s the only rule :D
Do we have to be ace bloggers and good writers with 100% Sinhala typing skills?
Nope, not at all. This is a starting point. You don’t have to type long and well organized blog entries. Try one, two three sentences… one para… one poem…one story…. one rant … twitter-like stuff…one post…just like that. 4 posts of your own type per hour. It’s good if you can write long entries. But it’s no big deal if you don’t write long and organized stuff. No one is going to judge you. This is a collective effort. It’s all about having fun.
Why do we do this :
1) For fun
2) To spread Sinhala language blogging
3) To assist those who are willing to start/test Sinhala blogging. We know there are lots of English bloggers visiting our blogs and sometimes wanting to try out the thing in our own language.
4) To create awareness about Sinhala Unicode, the most successful means of producing Sinhala language content online; the future of online Sinhala.
5) To create awareness on the topics ans themes you select to blog about.
HELP!!!
SinhalaBloggers.com is providing
*Assistance in enabling Sinhala on your computers.
*Help implementing easy input methods and tools (Wijesekera keyboard, Garp, firefox adons Singlish, Phonetic…SCIM etc) There are so many alternative ways to type Sinhala, you can select what suits you best. All streams will lead you to one big universal ocean. Unicode Sinhala.
More helpful blog entries on these matters will be pouring down pretty soon. I can assure you that this is the best time for you to start a blog in Sinhala; with lots of help and readers.
Join the IRC channel #sinhala-bloggers on freenode for live help. Or you can post your questions to our google group and forum. Someone will respond with a helping hand within minutes. That’s for sure!!
Cheers!
Yesterday, Sinhala Bloggers Union moved into their own, and newly built online dwelling. What a fabulous and exciting place! And our first public event is going to rock the SL blogosphere pretty soon. Why wait? Join the fun; join the Marathon! Read more about it here [it’s in Sinhala].
Date : 18th of April
Starting time : 8.00 p.m. Sri Lankan time. Ends at 8.00pm the next day.
What are we supposed to do?
Participants have to post a blog entry every 15 minutes for an entire 24 hours, for a total of 96 posts over the course of a single day :-) It’s marathon blogging folks! No mercy :D
Join the marathon.
Go here and enter your Sinhala blog url and other information
Is English allowed?
No. You have to blog in Sinhala :-) Create a separate blog if you want. Do it in Sinhala! That’s the only rule :D
Do we have to be ace bloggers and good writers with 100% Sinhala typing skills?
Nope, not at all. This is a starting point. You don’t have to type long and well organized blog entries. Try one, two three sentences… one para… one poem…one story…. one rant … twitter-like stuff…one post…just like that. 4 posts of your own type per hour. It’s good if you can write long entries. But it’s no big deal if you don’t write long and organized stuff. No one is going to judge you. This is a collective effort. It’s all about having fun.
Why do we do this :
1) For fun
2) To spread Sinhala language blogging
3) To assist those who are willing to start/test Sinhala blogging. We know there are lots of English bloggers visiting our blogs and sometimes wanting to try out the thing in our own language.
4) To create awareness about Sinhala Unicode, the most successful means of producing Sinhala language content online; the future of online Sinhala.
5) To create awareness on the topics ans themes you select to blog about.
HELP!!!
SinhalaBloggers.com is providing
*Assistance in enabling Sinhala on your computers.
*Help implementing easy input methods and tools (Wijesekera keyboard, Garp, firefox adons Singlish, Phonetic…SCIM etc) There are so many alternative ways to type Sinhala, you can select what suits you best. All streams will lead you to one big universal ocean. Unicode Sinhala.
More helpful blog entries on these matters will be pouring down pretty soon. I can assure you that this is the best time for you to start a blog in Sinhala; with lots of help and readers.
Join the IRC channel #sinhala-bloggers on freenode for live help. Or you can post your questions to our google group and forum. Someone will respond with a helping hand within minutes. That’s for sure!!
Cheers!