- Which websites command the biggest ad rates?
While most blogs and websites thrash around wildly for advertising income, what with Google adsense not being the savior of online publishing as was claimed to be, excpt for the spammers, there are some lucky corners on …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Advertising | Read more
- The Success Manual: 125+ Ways to be Remarkable in Work and Life
Learn 125+ Simple Things to Succeed in Work and Life
Forget Dense and Repetitive Business and Self development books and Blog Posts. We've Cut Out the Fluff and Given a You Simple but Powerful Collection of Wisdom t…
Topic: Books and Literature, About, Buy the book, Business, Education | Read more
- How to write effective online news headlines like the BBC
Usability expert Jacon Nielsen recently went through the BBC news website and finds that the top 6 news headlines together are only 38 words long:
* Italy buries first quake victims
* Romania blamed over Moldova ri…
Topic: Media, Onlinejournalismhandbook, Howto | Read more
- How Twitter is Trivializing Politics
As if politiciams were not trivlaizing things before, the New York Times writes about the habit of politicians of posting inanities and smart-ass slogans via Twitter.
The last thing Washington needs right now is poli…
Topic: Politics and Government, Twitter | Read more
- Can anyone explain to me how sensible is the delimitation of constituencies?
Other than knowing nothing about who will vote for whom in these confusing, deliberately issue-less elections, the other thing that confuses most Indians, including this writer is this thing called 'Delimitation of const…
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- The rising trend of Rajya Sabha as the real source of power in India
There is a valid reason why people point out that Manmohan Singh is not the people-elected leader of India. Since 1991, he is a Rajya Sabha M.P. from Assam. He has won no Lok Sabha elections in his career.
We had Rajy…
Topic: Politics and Government, Indiaelections2009, Trends | Read more
- Ten things I have learned from these Elections
So, we are giving the middle finger salute this time: The Election Commission is painting voters' middle fingers with indelible ink instead of the usual index finger. Whether this is a nod towards the quality of our po…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, India | Read more
- The Art of Building Influence in India - Part 1 - The Reliance and Infosys Way
It is very easy creating influence in India. In this occassional series, part 1 will focus on businessmen and influence. As is usual with most of my posts, I will be quick with this.
1. The Reliance way: Where you li…
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- Gone Baby Gone: The Rubina Story
Like most of her fellow Slumdog Millionare Child actors, Rubina Ali Qureshi is poor. British sensationalist newspaper News of the World claims Rubina's father tried to sell her through illegal adoption for 200,000 (USD 4…
Topic: Children and Youth, Crime | Read more
- The Environmental Benefits of Electronic Payments
When we advocate using electronic payments, we don't only mean doing away with paper-based transactions. We also talk about not using plastic money - the Credit Cards and Debit cards. According to Earthworks Systems, an…
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- Five things you should know about Earth Day
Earth Day, celebrated each year on April 22 was initiated by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin in 1970, which grew into the leading annual pro-environment event on the planet meant to foster environment-friendly …
Topic: Green Living, Simpleguide, Cause | Read more
- Yet another blog post questioning college education
I did not know this: The National Adult Literacy Survey in the United States says that 71% of American college graduates are unable to read proficiently. The SixmonthMBA blog, love the name, writes,
Colleges have failed…
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- Why Voice acting sucks in Video Games
Michael Abbott gives a wide range of reasons - derivative stories, poorly conceived and stereotyped characters, insipid dialogue, and most importantly how miser are game developers about being creative with voice. Michae…
Topic: Gaming | Read more
- How a Y Combinator startup interview feels like
An entrepreneur writes about his YCombinator 2009 interview headed by Paul Graham. I have highlighted two important questions:
Paul opened proceedings and cut to the chase: our market is already very crowded, althoug…
Topic: Startup, Venture capital | Read more
- How to start a political party in India
The Congress party was formed more than 125 years ago. When the indpendence was won, Gandhiji wanted Congress to be disbanded but they did not listen. It took another 40 years or so before a party was able to rival to ri…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Politicalparty, Howto, Simpleguide | Read more
- Poem of an election campaign worker
This Charlie Brown (peanuts) peom is about the U.S. Elections. With some modifications, it can be made for the Indian elections. After we are good at appropriating American stuff. I would recommend adding in bits about g…
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- Graphic: No opinion poll is sure about who will win what in these elections
Who will win in the electionsOnly the Matpati Ka Jinn knows. The graphic from Churimuri blog tries to aggregate results from 16 surveys in by different newspapers and news channels and finds that you can rely on no opi…
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- India Elections: The uninspiring choice before a billion living on the edge
Writing in the Business Standard, Devangshu Datta writes about the sorry choice presented before an exasperated and desperate Indian Electorate who are forced to choose from an array of feckless politicians enriched with…
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- Let a million independent candidates stand in the elections
A Pav Bhaji seller in Gurgaon is running for the Lok Sabha Elections. A candidate ran many times against Indira Gandhi and other big political candidates. Remember a man they called Dharati Pakad? Two big name candidate…
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- 15 ways to promote a Local Blog
A quick guide on blog promotion for local bloggers of the world:
1. Social networking sites: Facebook, Orkut...start groups like....[your locality] news group
2. Social news sites: Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller...par…
Topic: Onlinejournalismhandbook, Local, Blogging, Hyperlocal | Read more
