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Updates have been irregular and infrequent at DesiPundit. Enthusiasm may appear to be low [...]
The New DesiPundit
Dasavatharam Review Reactions
The Dasavatharam review by Hawkeye linked on DesiPundit by JK has been receiving interesting Rediff-like comments. As much as I’m enjoying them I hope it doesn’t become a trend although I can’t complain about the increased traffic.
Blogger Intimidation
Typical scenario in the blogosphere – blogger finds content ripped off the blog and posted on some random portal and complains to a portal citing content theft from her blog. The usual reaction from portals is ignoring the complaint and probably quietly removing the content. The best case scenario is pleading ignorance, apologizing, and removing [...]
DesiPundit on iGoogle
Over the past month, I was surprised to see one particular post on DesiPundit attract an inordinate amount of page views [see image]. The post ranked third in the list of top content i.e. only below the homepage and the contributors page which have been traditionally the top content since DesiPundit launched. This particular [...]
Excluding Categories from your Feed while using Feedburner
Wordpress is a powerful and flexible blogging platform with its functionality greatly extended by numerous plugins and web services available out there. But at times, we have an unique request that doesn’t have a documented solution available as yet.
First the problem; as you know DesiPundit offers links in seven languages but admittedly the majority of [...]
DesiPundit Reader Survey Results
Apologies for the delay in presenting the results for the DesiPundit Reader Survey. We kept the survey running a little longer than we anticipated to get a better representative sample and we were pleased to around 350 responses. Without much ado, I would like to present the results (with brief observations) below for every question [...]
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 [...]
Exposing DesiPundit biases
The perennial complaint against DesiPundit is that we don’t link to enough distinct blogs and seem to have a choice few favorites that we love flaunting as the best of the Indian (desi?) blogosphere. We freely admit that the tag of ‘best of the Indian blogosphere’ is largely subjective to our tastes but isn’t that [...]
DesiPundit Reader Survey
Cross posting from DesiPundit:
“The DesiPundit team requests you to complete a short survey. The survey is designed to get a snapshot of our audience and receive constructive feedback from our readers
The survey should take you about 2-3 minutes to complete. All of your responses to the survey will be kept confidential.
You may choose to answer [...]
DesiPundit Feed Subscriber Count
After Feedburner began reflecting subscriptions from Google Readers, almost every site experienced a spike in traffic. So did DesiPundit. Abi had requested a feed subscriber count for DesiPundit then but I hadn’t delivered on that promise. So here it is:
This is an average weekday subscription count. It isn’t too high but high enough for the [...]

