Since the web 2.0 bubble expanded, a new word has been added to the dictionary (of course it has been there for technology geeks for a long time) called RSS. It’s so simple so that when combined with GNU naming schemes, you can call that “RSS Stands for Simple” (Note: in case you are wondering, yes, this is not the right term ).

The great thing about RSS is you can keep track of your favourite blogs, without ever going there to check for new updates. Just by using a RSS Reader(I use google reader), the newly posted items will be just there.

However, the “web 2.0″ concept is not just about AJAX or RSS or rather whatever technology. It’s more of the community, the bunch of people with same interests get together and use their creativity instead of automated robots to generated rich quality content. The same thing happens when you start blogging, people read your blog, then put comments, or rather write an offensive post on their blog, and so on… This blogsphere is what makes bloggers ticking.. what makes blogging interesting..

As with the Sri Lankan blogs, there is a great community built around kottu.org which has been there for several years. Niro also just started a blogging community for Sri Lanka called slblogs.org. They have just started, so at the moment there are not much of blogs there, but it’ll eventually grow. Although since the Sri Lankan blogsphere is relatively small, I’m not sure there is enough ground for a battle. In my personal opinion, It would be more interesting to see a blogsphere for growing number of Sinhalese blogs.