If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Congratulations to Sepia Mutiny for getting credentialed at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. Thanks to their tireless efforts, there will finally be a desi presence [from the blogosphere] at the national stage in American [...]
Customizing Viewing Ads
Since I’ve been fiddling around at the backend of this blog in midst of revamping the look, I managed to clean up my plugins directory. Although WordPress by itself is a robust blogging engine,the availability of plugins helps enhance the experience and extend its capabilities. One of the plugins that I installed is PlanetOz’s Who [...]
Change in Theme Design
After resisting for more than a year, I finally gave in and changed my theme last night. The previous one had served me well and I persisted with it primarily due to several customizations I had made. But it was getting too clunky and boring. And I wasn’t blogging regularly so why not tinker around [...]
Content Aggregation – The Channel [V] way
Blogging is hard work; no wonder almost 90% of the blogs that are created never go beyond the ‘Hello World’ post and 99% of the blogs aren’t updated more than once a month. Yet those 1-10% of blogs still number in the millions giving rise to popularity of content aggregation or meta-filtering like Digg, Reditt, [...]
BlogBurst – Sharing your blog content
You may or may not have realized but I am trimming all the fat from this blog’s sidebar. Although I don’t agree with Google’s arm-twisting ways, I plan to get rid of Text Link Ads soon as well because I understand Google’s point of such ads disrupting quality of organic searches. I have unsubscribed from [...]
iPatrix breaks into Alexa Top 100,000
I am not sure if this means anything but I just noticed that this blog is now ranked 95,443 in Alexa [see sidebar widget badge]. Alexa ranking is a quick way to calculate the ranking of your site in regards to incoming traffic. As you know, I am not a big fan of traffic [...]
Blogospheric Debates and Free Speech Arguments on Art Censorship
While bemoaning the lack of civil discourse in comments all over the generic blogosphere, I find that the quality of debate and discussion on the desi blogosphere is somewhat better. Probably the size and multitudes of connections amongst prominent bloggers are responsible. You are less likely to slander a blogger if he or she knows [...]
Map of the Blogosphere
I first came across this image in Discover Magazine [click to enlarge]. The blogosphere has been attempted to be mapped several times but tying it to geographic boundaries often belies its global roots. Just because you are an Indian doesn’t necessarily mean you read only Indian blogs, right? This image is based on links [...]
DesiPundit Indibloggies Prizes Auction
DesiPundit is auctioning off its prizes won at the Indibloggies this year. All the proceeds go to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that does commendable development work for children and young adults in India through the outdoors and sports. Please help spread the word and if possible at least bid on one or more [...]
Selecting a Web Hosting Provider
Moving to your own domain regardless of its numerous advantages comes with its headaches. Right from selecting an appropriate domain name (book your full name dot com even if you don’t use it) to selecting a hosting provider can either be an easy ride or a royal pain in the rear.
DesiPundit seems to have a [...]

