Why 2020 was the best year for blogging?
By: Jairam R Prabhu
Tags: Blogging, Médium, Journal, 2020, Writing

Why 2020 was the best year for blogging?

Covering my past one year of blogging in a capsule and also a throwback to my posts of this year. I write on Socio-Politics, International Relations, Law, Technology, MUN etc.

This year 2020, is coming to an end. It has treated us in different ways. For most of us, it might be negatively while for others it might be positive. But we can’t disagree that this year has helped us to recognise small things which gives us utmost happiness and which we have been ignoring for many years. I am here to give my perspective on the ‘2020’s effect on the blogging field and how it has been my best year.’

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When we engage with bloggers and content creators online, we realise that the online activity of people has skyrocketed. Medium writers are getting thousands of views, our articles are going viral more than usual. My article on lockdown days itself is an example of that.

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Do comment your best write up of this year.

I am part of the writing field from 2017 onwards and now I have nearly completed four years. In blogging to be specific I have completed two and a half years on Medium. I have never before 2020 realised the extreme potential this platform has. Till lockdown being initiated this year, Medium was just like an ordinary platform where I posted regularly, i.e once in a fortnight as part of my monthly blogging series.

Read my story of blogging- Why I write?

Before coming to Medium I was writing regularly on Quora, now I have a new Quora space as well. For contest purposes, I had started an account on Youth Ki Awaaz blog and started writing there as well. For college blog, I had been part of Paperkin Publication, and also was nominated to Tech Bridge. In June 2019, I and my friends in MEC MUNSOC started the MUNner’s daily Publication. It has been a really successful venture where a lot of writers have contributed to our publication. This year in April I also had an opportunity to start a new Blogspot named Infodaily where I share more short write-ups, do podcast summaries, feedbacks etc. I have also made a Telegram Channel as well as a Quora space for sharing stories and informative facts.

About my Niche

I started writing on Medium for my niche only. But later I shifted other topics like Journal based writing, technology, etc. as I saw that we can write on any given topic. My primary niche is socio-political issues and it’s analysis. I am a fan of long write-ups, mainly for two reasons. First, I publish a story only once in a fortnight, so I appear in people’s mind only for 10 minutes maximum, that is all I demand from people. Second being that my stories are summarised, from a large issue I’m presenting to you A to Z, which will help the reader understand about the topic very well. He/she needn't refer to multiple articles so that 10 minutes or so is more than enough. That is the output of my 5–6 hours of research and publicity for every article. Although the average readership time still remains to be around 2–3 minutes.

Ever since Covid-19 lockdown was initiated I have successfully published one article every weekend. I was able to publish over 60+ stories total on Medium itself and the majority come from this year only.

Best Collection of this year

Now, I am here to convey the hall of fame of my articles of the year 2020, which I consider my best.

First and foremost will be my signature post of the year which I discussed before- How do I spend my lockdown days?. That post has crossed around 165K views in total.

This article has received 99% of its traffic solely through Google and I can see that Medium is one of the high ranking pages and it will never disappoint you if you have done your part in SEO.

Research and informative

In this article, I have made my stance clear on why we should oppose this barbaric practice we follow. Covered a lot of both scientific, criminal and ethical issues which are in favour of my argument. I have also addressed many of the concerns raised by those who support it as well.

Political Science Theory

Mainly covers various interpretation of secularism and how it is implemented and followed in various places. I have given examples of the same from various notable countries- France, Turkey, India, US etc.

International Relations-

I believe that covering this topic was essential despite this not being my best researched or not even the one where I had dropped in a lot of information or hard work. I’m glad that this brief war, which happened between both these nations, has stopped through a cease-fire brokered by Russia.

Since IR is also one of my key fields I would also suggest you go through my post on Islamic bloc’s foreign policy with respect to India.

Law and legal issues

In lockdown days, the biggest problem we face is the increase in screen time and the use of the internet. Along with those we can see a significant increase in cyber crimes reported. I have made an analysis of our various security concerns, laws which protect us, and also the legal remedies.

Science and Technology

I covered a lesser-known topic- Optical circuits. It is a topic, where electricity is replaced with light. This will lead to a big efficiency in the majority of circuits which we already use at present.

MUN based

Coming to Model UN, I have written an article on how to research for MUNs. It is based on pure methods which I feel is good and how I generally do it. I have included a lot of tips and tricks as well.

Election based Analysis

This is an article which has crossed 100+ fans in a very short time and is recorded to be my longest article as well. I have made sure that I cover A to Z regarding the US Presidential Election results.

Before I could conclude about the past one year’s blogging activity, I would love to thank MUNner’s Daily publication followers for all the support they have given me. I have officially stepped down as the Editor in Chief and handed over the charge to my Juniors. I believe they will really do a good job of maintaining the standard of the content published there.