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	<title>Silence &#187; Autoblography</title>
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		<title>Autoblography: Self portrait of a blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr Farrukh Malik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">I have found that every blog has its story; something that can be seen as a trigger factor that made the blogger set the blog. The moment I started my first blog back in 2004, I wrote&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">I have found that every blog has its story; something that can be seen as a trigger factor that made the blogger set the blog. The moment I started my first blog back in 2004, I wrote the <strong><em>about</em></strong> section of my blog with an idea to answer the questions of all my readers to why I want my voice to be heard via my blog, the very essence of my blogging. This left the <em>about section</em> very special to me because it was something that was very important to me as a writer. It was the place where reader use to come face to face with me, an introduction, the very outlook of what I am and why I want my readers to take interest in my musings, my writ-ups.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">For quite sometime, I have been reading some very good stuff around in blogsphere and just recently, it clicked my mind to go one step further. I came up with this idea of starting a feature on my blog, <strong><em>the blography</em></strong>. It is blog alternative of biography. I kept thinking about it for quite sometime and in this course of search in and out of my mind, I came up with this idea to narrate this story of a blog in the very words of its blogger. Yes, the <strong><em>‘auto’</em></strong> thing as in <strong><em>autobiography</em></strong> and it offered me this <em>‘Aha’</em> feeling. I though, thought and thought for quite some time and I am up now with this <strong><em>‘autoblography’</em></strong> feature, the biography of a blog in the words of its blogger(s).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong>What is autoblography?<o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><em>Autobiography</em> is something that tells us about the blog in it’s ‘<em>about section</em>’. <strong><em>It is the self portrait of the blog that a blogger wants its readers see</em></strong>. It is in fact the autobiography of a blog. It is the story behind this intellectual pursuit that made the blogger spent a good deal of time in writing the posts to carry his voice to its readers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">Having this idea of <em>autoblography</em> in my mind, I started looking in every direction in blogsphere and was happy to read some very interesting pieces. I felt like sharing it with my readers and it took me to its logical end of starting this new feature on my blog named <strong><em>‘autoblography’</em></strong>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong>My plan<o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">In the days to come, you will find this new feature <em>‘autoblography’</em> on regular basis at <strong><em>‘Silence’</em></strong>. I will file all the posts in a new category on my blog and the category will be named accordingly as <em>‘autoblography’</em>. My work will stay that of an editor in nature and I will search and pick the <em>autoblographical notes</em> for the interested readers from <em>about sections</em> of blogs around. In cases, where some blog is interesting but lacks the about section, <em>Silence</em> will request the blogger to send an autoblographical note on his/her blog for publication.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong>Request to bloggers <span> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">If any blogger feels like participating and wants the <em>autoblography</em> of his blog get published with Silence, he can send an email at <strong>editor [at] drfarrukhmalik [dot] com</strong> with the autoblographical note. Silence will review the <strong><em>autoblographical note</em></strong> and the <strong><em>blog</em></strong> to ascertain the suitability for publishing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong>Policy of Autoblography feature<o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><em>Last but not least, it is not required that the policy of Silence must match with the featured autoblography.</em></strong> Silence believes that every individual has right to say and open his heart out but <strong><em>limits of ethics and decency will strictly be observed</em></strong>. In cases where Silence will deem it fit that editorial changes are required, the permission from the writer will be sought before hand. <strong><span style="text-transform: uppercase">Silence will not be responsible for the content Published with this feature.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">So friends, keep visiting Silence for the next post in this category since I have already picked some interesting autoblographies for you all.</p>
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