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Blogging in Bangladesh is dominated by a community of around 200
blogs A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
. Some personal blogs have been around since the mid-2000s, but there are now blogs about self help, cities, science, law,
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, entrepreneurship, and fashion magazines.


Notable bloggers

Notable bloggers from Bangladesh include
Avijit Roy Avijit Roy (; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, ...
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Asif Mohiuddin Asif Mohiuddin (born 24 February 1984) is a Bangladeshi atheist and secular activist, religious critic and feminist. In 2012, he won The Bobs-Best of Online Activism award from Deutsche Welle, who stated that "Asif's blog was one of the most r ...
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Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (, also Tutul টুটুল) is a Bangladeshi publisher and writer. He won the 2016 Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, selected by writer Margaret Atwood, The Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award ...
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Ahmed Rajib Haider Ahmed Rajib Haider (died 15 February 2013) was a Bangladeshi atheist blogger. He used to blog in the blogging communities namely somewhereinblog.net, amarblog.com and nagorikblog.com and used the pseudonym Thaba Baba. On 15 February 2013, after ...
, Bonya Ahmed,
Sunny Sanwar Sahibzada Sanwar Azam Sunny (; , born 17 December 1989) is a Bangladeshi-born American artist, environmental activist and entrepreneur. He became fluent in multiple languages and is one of the youngest artists to have a solo exhibition at the N ...
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Shahidul Alam Shahidul Alam (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist. Alam founded Drik Picture Library in 1989, Pathshala in 1998, the Chobi Mela Inter ...
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Violence against bloggers

Since 2013, some bloggers in Bangladesh have been attacked and killed by
Islamic extremists Islamic extremism refers to extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideologies adhered to by some Muslims within Islam. The term 'Islamic extremism' is contentious, encompassing a spectrum of definitions, ranging from academic interpretations of Is ...
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References

Blogging by country Internet in Bangladesh Mass media in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-media-stub