BCCL owned Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) is planning to launch a Weblogs Inc like unit, essentially an group of blogs on the lines of Gawker Media or Weblogs Inc/MediaGlow focused on specific domains. Our sources had indicated that Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, Deputy Editor at the groups business channel ET Now will be coming on board to lead the effort. Radhakrishnan, who declined to comment for this story when contacted, is familiar with the blogs space and has worked with Indiatimes CEO Rishi Khiani in the past, having run Web18s tech verticals Tech 2.0 and BizTech 2.0 as Editor At Large. Confirming the developments to MediaNama, Khiani said that they'll launch a blog nework within the next month and a half and 10-15 blogs will be launched over the next six months. Depending on their success, it will be extend to 20-25 blogs. The blogs will be niche, vertical blogs, and focus on segments like Consumer Technology, Enterprise Technology, Men's Lifestyle, Personal Finance. Nothing has, as yet, been planned for the Media and Private Equity domains. Khiani declined to comment on the name for the initiative. That tech will be a part of the mix was a given: Radhakrishnan used to write a tech blog called TechTonic which is now defunct (update: Radhakrishnan informs us that Tech Tonic was a repository of his tech columns, which has now been moved here). He now writes the blog Tech Now at Economic Times and Times of India. He also hosts a show on ET Now and…
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