The discussion moreover is not limited to the posts by these two bloggers, but also includes comments – that said, the blogosphere is not represented by the noise of majorities and minorities but is made up of smaller voices too. If I choose to ignore this – and focus only on the “majority of the issues” picked up – I am doing what traditional media has always done – ignored other issues and voices.

I am not imposing an identity on them – merely, categorizing information according to the taxonomy considered relevant to this website. If you notice the post has also been tagged under LGBT – but does that mean that this discussion is only relevant to those who identify as LGBT? Categorizing anything under any label is in that sense an imposition – but I am not imposing this label on anyone – merely stating that this is how the information is processed by a regional editor who works with blogs in the South Asian region.

I categorize any post on Sri Lanka, by a Sri Lankan under the country tag. s for what constitutes the Sri Lankan blogosphere – that is not for me to determine – but it is undeniable that the community exists.

Okay, I’m being facetious with the above. Interestingness is relative, etc. But I do also have a more serious bone to pick.

Here’s a question about bridge-blogging. IIRC, the point is to provide a viewpoint into ‘local’ reality to a ‘global’ audience -a journalistic perspective of sorts. Fine so far. But when things like this get picked up as somehow representative of Sri Lankan blogger perspectives, I seriously question whether it makes any sense at all to call anything the “Sri Lankan blogosphere”. (Goes for any country too, of course, but I’m speaking as a Sri Lankan and a blogger.) I can see how you could divide the blogosphere by theme/subject/issue (the music blogosphere, the geek blogosphere, the political commentary blogosphere, whatever), but I think trying to divide it by nationality is a sacrifice of accuracy for convenience.

I suppose it’s your phrasing I’m arguing with. If you had said “interesting discussion between (two) Sri Lankan bloggers” I wouldn’t have thought twice about it. Adjective, noun. Meaning, bloggers who live in, and presumably have citizenship in, Sri Lanka.

As it is, I just found myself wondering what, exactly, constitutes this “Sri Lankan blogosphere”, whether I was a part of it, how I had missed this interesting discussion, and -having read it- whether I wanted to be somehow, even implicitly, a party to it. Adjective, noun. Meaning (connotative if not denotative), Sri Lanka’s (singular) community/network of blogs.

See what I mean?