Today is Blog Quake Day, a fine blogging effort initiated by desipundit. The best resource I can point you towards is the South Asia Quake Help blog. Reuters’ AlertNet has updated news on the relief operations and also a list of organizations to which you can contribute. Please take the Blog Quake Day message forward.… Continue reading Blog Quake Day
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Hatch your chickens and abuse bloggers
Much has been happening in blogland – Gaurav Sabnis gets a legal notice from IIPM about his post on the institutes’s tall claims – requesting him to either back of and apologize or else… And Rashmi Bansal gets, to put it mildly, obscene comments on her blog. And what’s so strange about that? Because these… Continue reading Hatch your chickens and abuse bloggers
Shopping and advertising on blogs
Shoppers use blogs for bargains… says the BBC. Consumers are starting to use weblogs, or blogs, as guides to what they should and shouldn’t buy, finds a survey. A survey (conducted by whom and for what purpose, this does not say) says that people trusted blogs since they were written by “real people” and based… Continue reading Shopping and advertising on blogs
New links on ict and development
Lean blogging period. Here are links to a few interesting articles I came across – ave placed them here for my future reading too… Government Launches Two Portals For Women – via ContentSutra. Maintained by the NIC (National Informatics Centre), these sites are loaded with information and statistics (I checked out both). The NRCW website… Continue reading New links on ict and development
The Scian Melt – all about science
This edition of the Scian Melt is here as promised… There have not been too many nominations for this one but I searched around a bit and have added a few posts on my own. Enjoy! Fitting to start this melt with an initiative started by Sunil Laxman on presenting science news. He hopes this… Continue reading The Scian Melt – all about science
The Scian Melt rolls around
The Scian Melt is Scientific Indian’s baby. And it is being hosted right here on this blog on September 10th. We would like to introduce you to The Scian Melt, a showcase of good weblogging about Science and India. The posts would, on the whole, have a scientific tone. They could be about anything under… Continue reading The Scian Melt rolls around
Me too me two!
Its raining anniversaries in blogland. Funny how many great blogs were born in the month of August (and with that, I have subtly and sucessfully wedged my way into the great blogs list)… Two years today… So, don’t go away. Stay tuned – I will be back right after the break… *** The next scian… Continue reading Me too me two!
Government wastegate
Came across this interesting website called Citizens Against Government Waste (Link via The Adam Smith Institute blog). The site functions as a ‘wastewatcher’ complete with a wastewatcher newsletter to draw attention to waste and abuse in government programs, policies, and events that might otherwise go unnoticed. And they choose a Porker of the Month to… Continue reading Government wastegate
Globalwalk for Breast Cancer
Patricia of Chaotic Gestalt points out to this site Globalwalk for Breast Cancer. On August 1, 1999, Polly Letofsky left her home in Vail and headed west. She traveled across 4 continents, 22 countries and over 14,000 miles. By foot. As an awareness campaign for breast cancer, survivors around the world came out to walk… Continue reading Globalwalk for Breast Cancer
Of flies and strawberries
Michael, I am sure when you wrote it, you were not thinking of the number of discussions that would spring up around your initial thoughts on the most popular blogger. (Or, were you? :)) – but I like the idea of a “blog buddy” – that has nothing to do with linking and ranking but… Continue reading Of flies and strawberries