The Tamil blogosphere is the
online community of
Tamil-language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Pud ...
weblogs that are a part of the larger
Indian blogosphere
The Indian blogosphere (or IndiBlogosphere) is the online predominantly community of Indian weblogs that is part of the larger blogosphere.
History
In India, like elsewhere, blogging gained momentum in the early years of the twenty-first century. ...
. The Tamil blogosphere has a considerable number of contributors from
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
and Singapore, and is one of the largest blogospheres resident in India.
Tamil language typing tools
Early adopters used different software to type in Tamil. Earlier versions of Tamil typing software had each its own implementation of the Tamil keyboard, complete with proprietary
font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design.
In mod ...
s and
encodings. Later on, a standardized encoding was agreed upon and newer iterations of Tamil software (such as Azhagi, NHM writer, The tamilsg editor, &
Google transliteration
Google Transliteration and Google Indic Transliteration is a transliteration typing service for languages with non-Latin Alphabets.
This tool first appeared in Blogger, Google's popular blogging servicLater on, it came into existence as a separat ...
) use Unicode.
Distribution and usage
Earlier on, the majority of Tamil bloggers were from outside India and Sri Lanka. Nowadays, Tamil people from their homeland have started to write blogs. A considerable number of bloggers are writers.
Content
Content is mostly related to cinema, culture, history, politics, philosophy, personal experience, and travel. Considerable number of blogs exist devoted to technology and religion. The majority of these bloggers write the posts in the first person.
Even though most bloggers are based outside India, Tamil blogs featured content related to politics in India rather than the country they were blogging from.
References
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Tamil computing
Blogospheres
Indic computing