Really Simple Syndication - RSS This link should say what is RSS. A good explaination at this site by weblog conceiver and chief evangelizer, Dave Winer.

Deep thoughts about blogging Blogging is not technology. Neither it is a new system invented. It was there since long. And we have been hearing about it this way. Digging more about it, here is an article which puts down some deep thoughts about blogging. Worth a read.

Business blogging and the conference Michael Gartenberg is VP & Research Director, Jupiter Research. Today I stumbled upon his blog and thought I have finally reached something worthwhile to mention about blogging. On June 9, 2003, a 2-day Jupitermedia ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference was held. The thing that caught my eyes was as he says - "More than half the audience seemed to have laptops open at all times". There was this bunch of prominent bloggers and geekheads from the blogging community and industry specialists who attended this conference. The most ideal device to do blogging in my view. I would soon have one I thougt. The most important thing about this conference is it addressed Business Blogging - Blogging for fun and profit. This presentation by mike is something interesting that I was looking for since I started blogging. This topic puts some light on how the corporates finally might want to take a look at blogging for business for fun but for profit. I could not dig deep into how it can be for profit. Soon we may see this shift happening and taken seriously by the IT industry. Its not just about personal and corporate websites now. The shift I guess has already happening from the rigid, clumsy static publishing to blogging, content driven. As they say 'content is king'. During my stint at Indya, we brought this tagline to our day-to-day work, we could see the implementation happening. Everything else doesn't matter. Content is king. All that matters is how significant is your content on the web, How benifitial is it to the audience, how well has it been structured, does it have an RSS feed?, does it address the topics under light to its maximum?. We had bought a content management system from OpenMarket for a huge sum. Mainly to manage the content across the content-driven channels like news, sports, cinemaa etc. It was all XML-driven based on the Java langauge. It was quite difficult for us to install, setup for the requirement that we were looking for and program it for our needs from there on. We underwent some training on it too. Though it tried to address many issues of content management, it lacked the ease of maintainance, technical flexibility for future requirements and more importantly it was not as structured as we would have expected it to be. Now that the blogging is in the big picture I certainly believe there would be new revenue models coming out of this new arena. Though the blogging started since the initial days of the internet, it has come to the common man's door step only now. I guess it should lead to creation of business blogs for profit rather than mere personal weblogs. This presentation talks about Business Blogging. Dave at scripting news has put down a lot about this conference, his and other fellows views on blogging and more. Worth a Visit. Heath Row has a transcript of every session at the Jupiter conference. Awesome. As he says the show is not about technology, nor will BloggerCon in October be about technology. Technology was ahead of the users, but in some ways, the users are ahead of the technology. You see the focus !!!

Adoration I dont know what to say, this is a poem composed by 'B', and the 'he' in the poem is supposed to be me !!! I believe I am not worth this poem. Its should have been written for the holy god. No. Not me. I am no good. I appreciate the appreciation shown by you, 'B' but I am a human. If you regard me so much, then I have nothing to give you in return.

Poem Of Adoration He sounds like the utterance of an illuminated soul breath of aspiration, praise of infinite, timeless hours. Not created by thought, nor moulded by fancies It is all his grace all that is invisible but his merciful glance! His words scatters sparks of wisdom, he is song of bliss He, with what easy sways and swings. Sweet blossom of life, an illumined face holy sanctity and his divine radiance. I am glorified in knowing this unseen spirit's glory An immensity and unfathomed mystery.

The Story of us !!! Its been long. 2 months and I have to tell somethinng. I am addicted to someone. Someone who is far away. Yet so near. Someone who cares for me for no reason. Who doesn't goto sleep without saying goodnight, doesn't wake up from her bed without saying Goodmorning to me. And me too have reciprocated in the same way. Not because she does. But because its come that way at the same time from both the sides. I didn't know her 2 months back. It was my birthday and and I got this poem written by her in my inbox. I was impressed as to how can an unknown person send me beautiful poem on my birthday with wishes. I replied and few mails got exchanged. Finally I asked her for her cell number. She was not willing to give it, as with anybody. But to my surprise, the numbers were also exchanged. Then started the flurry of SMSs. Thanks to this thing called SMS and I had made a good friend. It is now almost next to impossible to be without her SMSs. Sometimes I feel I should hear her and I call up. Not that she doesn't call. There is some problem with her handset or the Service provider hardly few calls where I could hear her properly without any disturbances. But it is a pleasure talking to her. Interacting with her. An angel on earth as I call her, I am not sure how long will be able to be in touch with her like this over the phone, sms, and these days almost mails have not been exchanged. There is no reason why I am addicted to this special person. I tried to analyse this over a chat the otherday and put down a few points like, this feeling of haivng someone listening to you. paying attention to you. this feeling of someone waiting for ur call or sms. it can be the opposite sex factor. The feeling of understanding someone new, exchanging some sweet and some not so sweet feelings. The feeling of having a friend who cares for you so much. But I did watever analysis to understand why I am in to this, I could only convince myself that I like this person very much, and I told her so yesterday. And she felt the same. This is one of the most loveable experience for me, something different till now, and I want to meet her personally and talk to her. Dont really know whether that would be possible in the near future at all. But someday I am gonna meet her for sure. for this person is so good that I dont know what to say. Yup we have had a few fights, few sorrys, infact more sorries from me. 3 big chat sessions on the net. Infact its better we have chat sessions than SMS sessions. Its more interactive. Sometimes these service provider problems crop up and It takes almost a few hours when the messages are received. And both wonder why the other person is not replying. Gussa? phir shuru..I have no clue where this will lead to. Dont even want to think. I dont know. But I have all the respect to our friendship. No one till date has grown so close to me in such a short time and such a person. I miss you B, all the time.

My Indya Stintlog !!! Sunil Lulla(now Sony SET - EVP), Arun Katiyar, Niti Chopra, Anuradha Sharma, Anu K, Arunava Sinha, Koushal Modi, Raj@Webops, Rajaram@webops, pradeep@webops, Projyal, Subbaraman K, Ananth Ram, Sims, Priti Kohli, Suman, Deepa T, Ramya, Chetan B, Chatura, Seetal Iyer (Yup the Radiocity FM RJ), Leena Palekar@TechQC, Alistair@TechQC, NCB (NaveenChandra Bhat), Hitesh Ashar, Tariq, Arvind, Pavan HA, Joby Joseph, Puppy (I forgot his name sorry), M Satheesh, Mugdha, Shaila Holla, Arvind Krishnan Now who? what? why? where? HOW? all these questions form the basis of my new "Indya Stintlog". Yup the names you see there are some of the wonderful people who worked/working at a now defunct horizontal portal, the now-internet face of the Star TV in india - indya.com. And I was working with the indya.com during those unforgettable 8 months in 2001, that I will ever remember and cherish, and thats what I am going to write about. The "Indya Stintlog"..coming up soon...check it out.. Note: The views, ideas, expressions and write-ups featuring in the stintlog are of my only and doesn't reflect anything that the indya.com carried/carries or the people mentioned in the log carry.

Happy and not I am happy because the Monsoons are coming. And people are heaving a sigh of relief. I am not happy because I am getting drowsy (Slept at 2am. 3 hours of chatting with B) I am happy because I had a nice chat with B last night. I am not happy because the software installation on my pc is not working at all. I am happy because Its a nice weather out here in Bangalore. The hot waves have gone away. I am not happy beacuse I have an upset stomach. Food....No good.. I am happy Coz I talked to my dearest cousin S and bhabhiJi yesterday. I am not happy Coz he is yet to send me the snaps of his weekend picnic to Holland. I am happy because I now have an opportunity to utilise my skills and perform at work. I am not happy Coz my health is not getting any better. Though I have started taking utmost care possible. I am happy Coz D is yet in touch with me. She calls up atleast once in a week. I am not happy Coz D's treat is still pending. Dunno I will ever get a treat from her. I am happy Coz I have a nice blog up here. I am unhappy Coz I am yet to set up my own domain and the MT blog. Dunno when... I am happy and unhappy. Guess thats what life is all about. And it has to be that way !!!!

Khwahish adhoori Did't do anything great over the weekend. Went to see "Khwahish" - a realistic, hot but tragic, ill fated screenplay, crapy sequences dustbin which is not recommended on a saturday afternoon. The only thing to watch here was Mallika sherawat and some dialogue baazi between the two. Ullas was horrific. Sir looks tired. Amar, sethji watever u call him is as expressionless as he can get. Lekha khorzvekar is the only saving grace. Could not do the painting. Spent time reading the watercolor book, outline of a new painting in mind. May be next week. Meanwhile this one I did a few weeks back. Called the countryside house. I believe I actually have seen this one in one of the village near my native.