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Bye, Bye, Live Journal. Over to Blogger (blogspot)
It's time to say bye, bye to this blog.
I wrote to LiveJournal support whether there is a way I can monetize my blog through ad revenue. Here is their response:
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CSI event: Startup Student Symposium And Launch of and-beyond.com
During the management committee meeting of Computer Society of India (CSI), Hyderabad chapter on 18-Apr-2012, I had suggested that we conduct a meetup between students and startup founders. We took the idea forward and I got quite involved in the organization. We had the event, “Start-up Student Symposium and Launch of and-beyond.com” on Saturday, ( Read more... ) -
Not My J
It was 4th of May that I posted on my blog, so a full two months have gone by. Here in Andhra Pradesh, May undoubtedly was the month of the by-elections. Newspapers, TV shows, conversations with friends and relatives - not a day passed without discussing by-elections and Jagan.
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Three Cheers To Versatility
The first one is, I made a short video film. The Times of India released an ad depicting the The Hindu as boring the readers to sleep. The Hindu retaliated with ads on national TV channels showing how the Times of India readers are ignoramuses. I made a parody video on these ads. Well, the objective was not to make a world-class film; rather it was ( Read more... ) -
Inductive Blogging and Recursive Writing
For my latest blog post, I wanted to take a couple of statements about the Indian economy and use them as an example of economic jargon that needs to be simplified. As I worked on the post, I realized that it would be a (slightly) long-ish one. There were many things that I had to write to complete the story. In short, it was a mini-essay.
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Flipkarting towards the internet economy
I am very cynical of customer service in India, and you would know it if you have read my earlier posts ( Unreported Dell Sucks, Ringtones of Customer Non-Service, Small unpleasant experience on Spice Jet flight). But the situation is not that bad. One (and probably the only one) that gave me delight is Flipkart. But first a disclosure: I have no ( Read more... ) -
Technology in a socio-political-economic perspective
The Economic and Political Weekly is a leftist magazine. I think it’s Ramachandra Guha who had likened it to The Nation published in the U.S.A. Regardless of the political orientation, its articles have a lot of data and analysis and cover society, politics and the economy.
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Ground Rules
When a person joins my team as a direct report, I inform them of some ground rules that we will follow. These are good principles and their application has been helpful towards creating a favourable image for me and my team in the organization. I accumulated them over the years. Hope you find them useful. I have also given the sources where I ( Read more... ) -
Valentine Day Scraping
Recently when I was watching a discussion on TV, there was a mention of the Sachar committee report. I wondered if I had to read the report myself, where would I get it. After sometime, I remembered seeing the report somewhere and after scratching my head a few times, realized it was indeed in one of Rupa Subramanya’s blog posts - she had given a ( Read more... ) -
New Year Question
Question is ‘what to do this year’? Hardly has the new year started, that one realizes it’s already week 7. I was still thinking of looking at last year’s to-do list and updating it and we are in February.
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