India in the WTO

OK, now I haven’t blogged here since 29 May. I was overly involved with some other projects. Plus, I wanted to think about what the future of this blog would be. Two issues were troubling me particularly. First, I noticed that some people had used my original analyses on this blog without acknowledging the blog. Second, was a related concern about whether I myself was benefiting from my efforts here or was I simply feeding information to others.

Despite my long absence, I have noticed that this blog continues to generate hits and get visitors. Over the last few months, even with no new posts, this blog has averaged between 600-900 hits per week. Plus the blog has been cited in an academic paper by Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss of NYU school of law, see IILJ Working Paper 2009/5. 

I think the blog has a future but it needs to evolve from hosting informational reports and newsy posts to more analytical posts. Plus, I  want to make sure that I get credit for my work posted here. I am still figuring out how to ensure this as I carry this effort forward. One possibility would be to pre-circulate / publish new content through a newsletter format and make it available on this blog after a time-lag.

More detailed posts will also mean that the blog will get updated less frequently than in the past. But I hope the quality of new posts will compensate.