Guess the number of 'registered' Nepali bloggers? It's about 300,000 (3 lakhs)

I was just hangin' around, trying to look for new people to 'follow' and start link-whoring from now on when I came upon this astounding fact: 1.4 Lakh bloggers at blogger.com have "Nepal" as their home country, and including those who do not live in Nepal but are Nepali, there are about 2 lakh bloggers registered at blogger.com alone. Add about a half that number for ALL the other blogging platforms(fair is fair) and you get about 300,000 Nepalis bloggin' around. Which raises several interesting questions like: 'OMG, Really?' , 'What the heck are they bloggin' about?' and 'will the absolutely shameless link whoring that goes around in blogs in Nepali-language blogs ever stop?' My dear readers, I shall take you through this perilous journey, and answer all the tough questions for you. But before that, remember that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. Because a supercomputer said so.

First of all, the 300K bloggers means that there are a LOT of Nepalis out there tryina' blog around and have fun. A large majority is based in Nepal, but I know from my personal experience that a significant proportion blogs from outside the country too, including places like China, Singapore, UK, Bahrain, Poland, France, US, and basically wherever Nepalis are.

What do they blog about? Most of them try to force their poems and prose upon others, even though no one's interested, but they Have to go because otherwise they would not get backlinks to their own blogs in return. So there's mothers, granmas, uncles, and people who consider themselves 'artistic' (anyone who hasn't got a paid job basically) in the interwebs, filling it with poems and stories and rants and conspiracy theories that no one wants to listen to because seriously people, they have got better things to do.

And then there's the 'tech type' who basically cut-and-paste stuff from all cool sites like gizmodo and engadget. Not all of them are thieving bastards who have no respect for other people's hard work and developed content but rant on about rights to their own material of course, but there's no notable blog(that I know of) related to technology.

Then there are the ghost bloggers. They open up a blog, post a few(dozen) posts and then forget about blogging. I suspect they form the vast majority of the 300k bloggers that we have. Still, they should be counted as bloggers, because they were once, and might possibly be again.

There are the genuine 'creative' types too. There are quite a few dozen(hundreds, thousands?) of them too, and they don't try pushing their content into others' throats. They may be poetic, or strictly objective, but they have good stuff. The best type.

Other Nepali blogger include businesspeople, ranting students, NGO wallahs, and journalists. There are probably a few hundred to thousand of such blogs and bloggers, but you've probably seen 'em all. They are very good, and are actually the 'real' real blogs.