No Enthu Da

Saw a very promising blog written by an IIT Madrasian and IIMBian, No Enthu Da, and this post seems like a pertinent observation: Relationships and IIT

tl;dr

From Urban Dictionary

tl;dr

Meaning: Literally, "Too long; didn't read" Said whenever a nerd makes a post that is too long to bother reading.

End of Blogging!!!???

Wtf? I just started to blog and the Economists has declared that blogging is dead. The reason is that it is just becoming another mainstream media activity. Some of the early pioneers of blogging have stopped because as they have grown popular and well-read, the activity has lost the personal touch for them. Worse, some of the big companies like gawker which employs bloggers is even laying off bloggers!

Just a while back, I was arguing against Sir Vidia's thesis that books are dead due to internet and now this! Atleast, books have been around as a dominant medium for few centuries, but blogging is just about a decade old.

Well, I dont buy this. Blogging is not dead, atleast for me. Infact, I think it is only just beginning to grow. Thats because, I think, blogging has the potential to replace or augment social networking sites like orkut and facebook. Already, in the more highly literate and writing section of the web, communities of bloggers are growing who regularly read and comment each others' work. In this way, blogging can bring together people having similar interests but seperated by geography. 

Ofcourse, it might be that blogging might not be as commercializable as book publishing but if there is sufficient interest, some innovative idea can come to make money out of this as well.

In Chinese

A snapshot of this blog's first chinese search hit. Chinese language on the Internet is a big thing often unknown to most english speakers. And it would probably be only getting bigger. So just wanted to put up a milestone.

Blogging

Why I blog, perhaps......

and why perhaps this blog like most will not get much eyeballs!

Duty Calls

Via Bryan Appleyard via the extremely funny xkcd

bloggers of the past

http://xkcd.com/239/

Indibloggies-2006

The nominations are in!
Indibloggies awards, sounds fun. Linking it if nothing for the 'link value'

A century!

This is my 100th post. Whew! Never thought I would be so regular in doing anything every. My first post was in 2004 and then I had a really long hiatus and then last year had been good. Probably lot of time in hand while doing (nothing in) my PhD.
Its also my last day in Delhi and India and this trip was really great. For the first time, having a full one month spent with family and really enjoyed it. But all good things end so that other good things can start!
Another new thing in this trip is my budding interest in finance and money. Am not expecting this to last for too long though.

Only a fool and the wise are always optimistic, and I am both.