The 2008 edition of Indibloggies, the Indian Weblog Awards, has been started with the nomination phase. Sadly, the Indibloggies 2007 edition was skipped last year due to some failed happenings and pressures at work. This year Indibloggies again has good support from the Sponsors with Hachette India and WordPress pitching in. A big thanks to [...]

Has Google discontinued showing Adsense Ads on pages written in languages other than English? My Hindi blog has been showing PSAs since last day and some of the Ad blocks are showing empty. Few other Hindi bloggers also noted the issue. Strangely, the advertisements still show up fine on a few pages, for example this [...]

There is lot of buzz around WordPress 2.5 and apparently Six Apart is worried, having  tread the “open source” path last December only, even encouraging people to upgrade to Movable Type instead. Here is a little tussle Anil and Matt had on Twitter today

Like the previous year, the good people at Desipundit, who won in the “Best Designed Indiblog” and “Best Directory/ Clique/ Service” categories, are auctioning their awards. The proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that conducts developmental activities for children and young adults through the outdoors and sports. This [...]

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 [...]

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 Indibloggies, India’s first and foremost blog awards unveiled its annual nomination process for the 2006 event on 26 January 2007. This is the fourth year of the Indibloggies award. The nominations is open in 16 different award categories for Indian blogs from all around the world from 26th January until 5th February. At stake [...]

I came to know Edward Hugh when, almost 3 years back, he was working on the “Living In ..” series of Blog aggregators. The project could not survive for long it seems but Barcelona based Edward persisted his tryst with the Internet. Ed is a trained Economist (the correct term is perhaps Macro Economist) and [...]

Every product has a life cycle. When WordPress gained popularity it looked as if Blogger.com would be confined to history. Many who were stuck with Blogger solely because they weren’t interesting spending bucks on maintaining an online identity, with the hosted solution WordPress snatched a major share of users from Blogger.com’s pie. But to the [...]

[This was a piece originally written for Desipundit. Patrix recently announced that his team desires to draw curtain over the link blog. This is indeed sad and I really hope they bounce back from the burnout and are back soon. I reproduce my piece that appeared here.] Desipundit is turning one. Congratulations guys! It has [...]