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Kerala Blogcamp to be organized on a house boat

Is that awesome or what !!
Yes, Kerala’s first Unconference event - BlogCamp Kerala 2008 will be held on 16th August at Alleppey, Kerala. The event is hosted by Kerala Tourism, who has provided the event venue - a houseboat. Yes, the event has the distinction of being the first such event to be conducted on […]

Draw a cartoon, winner takes $100 bounty

Aamir Khan blogs.
Amitabh Bachchan blogs.
Now, Shah Rukh Khan plans to blog.
Call me a skeptic, call me a pessimist, call me a critic, call me whatever.
For some reason,  I just dont buy the idea of these celebrities blogging.  I think all of it is bull.  Worthless marketing gimmicks. From some of the blog posts, it already […]

Yahoo India wants to help me blog

I’m not sure if anything is cooking over at Yahoo India, but apparently, they want to help me in my blogging efforts. Here’s a partial list of the survey questions they sent out to me via their PR agency:

What features or information would help Yahoo! make your blogging experience more compelling?

How do you think a […]

BlogsJam, a web based blog aggregator for Indians

Citipals has launched BlogsJam, a web based blog aggregator, which aggregates some of the most popular Indian blogs across various categories and displays them in a nice, no-nonsense manner. They cover categories like technology, business, finance, cooking, bollywood, travel, fashion, metros etc.
Its a good starting point if you are unaware of what blogs are […]

Convert any blog feed into audio using BlogBard

BlogBard is a cool new startup, using which, you can convert any blog feed into audio.
Yes, thats right. Provide the url to the RSS / ATOM feed and Blogbard will convert the blog posts into audio. I tried out the service and the text-to-speech conversion if pretty darn accurate. Even the pronunciation of several proper […]

Rediff Blog Showcase screenshots

A couple of months back, Rediff announced the beta launch of Rediff Blog Showcase. I just happened to drop by their site today and got a first hand glimpse at the service. The site still seems to be in private beta and has very little content.
If you have been a regular here, you would know […]

Indibloggies website hacked

Indibloggies, the site that hosts the publicly chosen awards conferred to bloggers of Indian origin, seems to have been hacked. Here’s a screenshot:

Using blog comments as an effective marketing tool

“I am a journalist with a travel Magzine and basically covering travel portals these days recently came across ABC it is quite a user freindly website.”
“Anyone tried ABC ? My colleague told me about this site two weeks back - it’s http://www.abc.com - now my favourite - simple, easy to use, and I have always […]

The one thing about Indian blogosphere

Since I started blogging, I’ve got the opportunity to interact and acquaint myself with several Indian bloggers, including some of the elites - something, which would have never happened if I werent blogging.
While I think that Indian blogosphere is still nascent, the one thing I find missing from the Indian blogging ecosystem is the ‘conversational’ […]

What’s your say on ad banners on Indian blogs ?

While a storm brews in the US blogosphere on a controversial ad campaign from Microsoft, the second session at IAMAI’s Web 2.0 conference touched upon the topic of using blogs as a marketing tool in the Indian market (If you do not have the time or patience to sit through the 1 1/2 hour video, […]