blogging

Cyber Celebrity?

Deccan Chronicle article says: In the blogosphere, technology rules supreme as some of the most popular bloggers, Prashanth HN (techbangalore.com), Swaroop C H (swaroopch.com) and Vikas S N (techknots.com) all blog about it.

Featured Blogger in Outlook Magazine

This blog has been featured by Outlook Magazine as one of the “8 Bloggers to Follow and Bookmark” in the B-Drive / Best B-Schools Snippets section of their Sep 27, 2010 issue (cached PDF here). It is indeed an honour to be featured along with TechCrunch, Rajesh Jain, Amit Agarwal and

Writing Principles

I think of this weblog as a small place for me to write. The reason I write is because I have this innate implicit belief that I learn only by teaching. In hindsight, that’s why I wrote those books and that’s why I keep writing in this space.

Happy Birthday to ion

Note: I no longer work with IonLab since Nov 12 of 2009. One year ago, on this day, we launched ion, the ipod charger. The launch was just one blog post. That’s it. Within two hours, Atul Chitnis bought the first ion in our online store. We celebrated. But

Searches leading to this website

I gleaned this from a random look at the website logs for two weeks. P.S. What does he/she mean by using orkut effectively? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

My first Adsense cheque

After opening a strange envelope with a Sweden stamp on it, I was holding my first Google Adsense cheque. Not only did I get money, but later in the day, Google (Mail) gave me career advice as well: Heh.

Wah, Kya Theme Hain

Chug’s awesome design for my website has been getting great reviews and has been featured on many design review sites: 1. Design Meltdown 2. WordPress Gallery 3. Screenblog 4. WebCreme 5. Nidha 6. Web Design Archive 7. CSSMania 8. CSS Remix

New swaroopch.info theme

I was starting to get bored with my website design (even though I really liked it), so I hired the talented Chugs‘s services and he came up with a really simple and colorful design, and it’s live now. Note: There are still some quirks to be worked out

4 things

Usually I don’t pay attention to memes because everybody’s doing it at the same time and it gets boring quickly, but for once, I decided to play along. Pradeep has tagged me to make lists of four things. So here goes: Four movies I can watch over and

Dakshina Kannada Police

I would’ve never expected to see the Dakshana Kannada Police blogging. They have updates on the ZP/TP election results. Also, they have entries in Kannada. (via Sharath)

More Conversations

Apparently, Doug Kaye and Team ITC were not satisfied with ITConversations and now they’re onto an even grander vision. I say more power to them!

Richie blog rich

My blog is worth $32,178.78. How much is your blog worth?

YPodcast

Podcasts.Yahoo.com went live today. It’ll help you find and listen to podcasts as well as create your own podcasts. Many of my friends in Bangalore are part of the team that created this. Kudos to them for converting a concept to a product launch in an amazing

The shortest interview possible

Anush “interviews” me. P.S. No, I did not select that photo.

Aamir Khan’s blog

Aamir Khan is blogging as Mangal Pandey? Somebody pinch me, I still can’t believe it. Is this for real? (via Mekin) Update: Scoble confirms it is authentic.

That Podcast Song

I’ll blame Adam Curry for getting me addicted to that podcast song. Just can’t get the tune out of my head. My favorite part of the lyrics is: You want it, you got it…just download it and pod it On a podcast…no one’s gonna stop

360 API

Siddharth Uppal asked about a REST API for Yahoo! 360° and it seems that it is in the works.

Where are the Indian IT women bloggers?

…. asks Vijayalaxmi in The Telegraph newspaper. Excerpt: Unfortunately, figures on the number of women who blog in India are simply not available. But anecdotal evidence suggests that women write about personal or social issues, unlike men who focus on work-related issues. For instance, there are more chances of a male

The Podcast experience

For the uninitiated, podcasting is like a radio show that you regularly subscribe to, the podcasting software that you use downloads the mp3s of the show for you so that you can listen to it whenever/wherever you like. The difference is that anybody can start a radio show and

Chiliablog and Softies

Interestingly, Sriram just made the 1,000th comment on my blog. Btw, Sriram joined Microsoft last month (in Hyderabad) as a PM in the DevTools team. To Sriram : blogs.msdn.com/sriramk doesn’t seem to be taken yet ;)

Reason 82 to blog

I’ll soon be getting an autographed copy of ‘Armies of Hanuman’ from Ashok Banker! Woohoo! That book isn’t in available in India yet :D P.S. I’ll write about the other 81 reasons later… ;)

What is a blog?

Some of my friends, who are uninitiated to the blogosphere, know that I write a ‘blog’ but they still don’t get what it really means. I’ve achieved some success by helping them understand how to use Firefox Live Bookmarks but I am sure there must be a lot

Circle is open now

Yahoo! 360° is now open for a public beta. This photo is by Ernie, one of the Yahoos who has worked on 360° ; that 360° logo was created out of pixel blocks (whatever that means). Leave a comment (with a valid email address) if you need an invite. P.S.

So why not a blog mela

I’m trying to play catch up with the blogosphere.. but it is difficult when I have 221 feeds in Bloglines. Actually, there were more but I’m trying to trim down my folders to a more manageable size. I got bored of simply reading, so I decided to host

Yahoo 360!

It’s official. Yahoo! has entered the blogosphere. Soon, you’ll be blogging at 360.Yahoo.com :D . The integration is simply awesome. Having played with it, I think Blogger.com will face some real competition now.

The Art of Blogging

Want to know how to write a great blog? Here’s how.

A Blogful of Work

The blogosphere is full of news about Mark Jen getting fired from Google for blogging. Zawodny has the full scoop. The part that interested me the most is what Jeremy Cole had to say about it. I have been unknowingly following his three rules on what (and what not) to

Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines?

The news is that Ask Jeeves has bought Bloglines. I just hope it doesn’t become yet another good service that is bought by a big company and then goes downhill… Update : Russell Beattie echoes my sentiments as well. Update : It’s official! : Excerpt: "We want to assure you that

Japan now blogs on Yahoo!

Yahoo! Japan now has blogs. More at SearchEngineJournal.

Will Yahoo buy Six Apart ?

The Internet Stock Blog predicts that within six months, Yahoo! will buy Six Apart – there are lot of valid arguments and I agree with most of them. Blogs are going to be the thing in 2005.  Well, if you are reading my blog, you know what it’s all about

Imagine a waiter’s life

Check out Waiter Rant – its all about the experiences of a waiter in a New York restaurant. The latest two stories are simply hilarious. Its a must-read.

Bloglines rules!

According to FeedBurner,  Bloglines owns one-third of the RSS market. All hail Bloglines! Bloglines is a website where you can subscribe to blogs and any RSS or Atom feed and when new stories are posted, you can read them from Bloglines. You won’t have to visit every website to

The IndiBloggies

The 2004 IndiBloggies are here! – these awards are publicly-chosen awards conferred upon bloggers who showcase excellence in the Indian blogosphere. My attention was immediately caught by the extremely simple yet striking design of the site. Very well done by Chugs. I came across many interesting blogs in this list such

HTML Export feature for WordPress

Here’s an idea I thought of today. I’ve been using WordPress 1.5 beta to maintain a worklog and I came across a situation today where a ‘HTML export’ feature would have been useful. I basically wanted to send a detailed description of a problem to a colleague

LinkBlog

I have now added a linkblog sidebar on this blog. It is actually a cached version of my del.icio.us bookmarks maintained by the delicious-cached WordPress plugin. Some of the latest links I’ve added include Waiter Rant which is a humorous blog about the daily experiences of a

Comment spam sucks

Forgive me for the ironic title, but I am getting spammed non-stop by some adult sites. I checked my mail today morning and I see more than 228 new comments on my site!! I had to delete them all by hand. Aah, the pains of becoming popular ;) I immediately installed

Kong is King

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you would’ve heard about how the Mozilla community started the SpreadFirefox initiative and about the full-page advertisement in a major daily newspaper in USA as well, and that all the marketing and funds were from the

Category Specific Feeds

I’ve been blogging a lot more since the last couple of months and I have phased from a tech-only blog to a real ‘Life and Technology’ blog which has been my tagline ever since I started blogging. So, the good news is that I finally figured out how to

About The Dreamer

As you might have noticed, I have changed the title of my blog to a new name ‘The Dreamer’ from ‘Dynamically Typed’. There are 2 reasons (yes, there had to be 2, after all I am The G2 for a new name: I’ve been blogging on and off over

2004 Weblog Awards

Here you go, the 2004 Weblog Awards! Very cool! Has almost any kind of category you can imagine. It’ll take quite a while to go through the list of sites here, but I think there’s a lot of good stuff in there just waiting to be read :)