Indibloggies, India’s first and foremost blog awards concluded its 2006 event by declaring the results of the public poll, last of the three phases of the annual event. Arnab won the coveted “Indiblog of the year” award as well as the “Most Humourous Blog” award for his blog “Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind“.Atanu Dey’s [...]

With a pile of 300 résumés on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly, my boss told me to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.
“Throw away 250 résumés?” I asked, shocked.
“What if the best candidates are in there?”
“You have a point,” he said. “But [...]

I had plans to start a Hindi Digg-clone but time constraints have been a barrier. I had registered two domains in anticipation, one is Kadighar.com (Kadighar is Hindi for “Home of links”) and another is a blogmemes.in domain with which you can become part of a Digg-clone network of repute who have Digg like sites [...]

Indian Express recently did a story on Indibloggies. Though they got some facts wrong (for example I told them that “Tamil, Hindi and Marathi” are leading in the Indic blogging scene), I must thank the newspaper and Anuradha for the good words. I hope this would help its cause, that of showcasing the best of [...]

The machine is us; we are the web! Amazing video.

I was bit late to realize this, but after the recent WP upgrade to 2.1 there has been few hiccups with the UTW plugin (specifically release 3.141592 , that I use). The UTW tags would just vanish whenever a new comment was being posted or when you try to edit the post. Fortunately, there is [...]

Coinciding with the nomination process at the Indibloggies, the good people at the IndiCast, one of the most popular Podcast from India, were kind enough to invite me to talk about the Indian blog awards and help spread the word. It was a short but entertaining chat with Aditya Mhatre, his chum and co-host Abhishek [...]

The Indian economy is overheating, the feel-good factor does not merely exist on the story-board of political campaigns, and it has transgressed to Internet as well. Add to this a fizz of Web2.0 frenzy and you have a crazy concoction of Internet euphoria ready for the consumers. Dear readers, after YouTube desi wannabes Tera Video, [...]

I normally do not post email forwards but this one is bitterly tickling, whoever wrote this has a great career ahead as a satirist IMHO.
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The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs [...]