Just for Fun – a random update from me, late evening, sometime last week “Sindhi Kadhi + Rice = Heaven” generated immediate response from not just Twitter but also Facebook friends (my status updates are linked to my Tweets and get automatically updated every time I write anything on Twitter). People were writing in from Bangalore, Delhi, Switzerland asking me to share the recipe, which I did over a few dozen Tweets. Soon more people joined the conversation over private messages, Facebook and email. Lots of thank you messages followed and many promised to try the recipe. A couple of them have, in fact, already done so – yes, it was fun and I might just do it again sometime. Not to be tried recklessly for fears of being termed spammer.

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Now enjoy your Twitter followers’ shock and awe as your Google Talk status messages get pumped (piped? fed?) into Twitter automagically.

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The Indian players offering social media marketing services can broadly be divided into three categories –

- Digital advertising agencies offering social media marketing services with a focus on virals, social network apps, social media campaigns etc.

- Public relations agencies/ practitioners offering social media services with a focus on online reputation monitoring and social media outreach etc.

- Prominent bloggers offering, basically, corporate blogging consulting services and workshops.

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Amit Agarwal offers a ten-second solution with the help of Google Reader. Chetan Kunte takes it a step further with a simple PHP index file or better still, a WordPress plugin.

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Blog meets are so passe. I want to do a Mumbai Twitter meet. Anyone interested?

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Don’t display your RSS count button if your subscriber base is less than 100… People often like to read what other people are reading and a small subscriber count may turn them off or might seem as if your content isn’t worth subscribing. When you have a large enough (subjective) subscriber base, feel free to flaunt it around.

Increase your RSS feed readers

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Thejo digs into the stats and comes up with some detailed and surprising results. More details of his results and methods over at my blog. DesiPundit Reader Survey results coming up soon.

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Desipundit used to have a wiki list of Indian bloggers. Unfortunately wiki.com reinvented itself and we lost our wiki page. Apologies to all who had already listed their blogs … please do list your blog on Indiblogs.org.

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Jitu points out that Blogger has started Hindi transliteration input in its editor. Which means that anyone can type in Nagari (the script for Hindi) straight into the Blogger interface without any external tool. The tool uses a phonetic input method (very similar to iTrans - without any credits though) and people not knowing Hindi typing in traditional methods can also type easily. Blogger provides more help on this.

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Polite Indian, whose blog is among the ones plagiarized, raised this issue; in the comments section, Trevor Longino, a ByIndia official, blames it on a “malicious coder’s spyder”, and says they “have fixed the situation”. They may have ‘fixed’ the blogs that have been flagged by Got Copy?, but a cursory check led me to some more:

Kitabkhana, and here is the fake blog
Gautam Ghosh — Management Consultant and the fake blog
Blank Noise Project, and the fake blog
Reality, One Bite at a Time, and the fake blog
MBA Aspirant from India, and the fake blog
Education in India, and the fake blog

As I said, I took only a cursory look, and there are probably many more where I found them. But I’m also sure these fake blogs — and others that you may find — will be removed in due course (the last three are already ‘disabled’!).

Clearly, ByIndia’s blogging platform needs a mechanism that allows even a casual reader to flag offensive and plagiarized blogs so that the company catches them before the blogosphere does. I have e-mailed to the company with this suggestion. I’m yet to get a response; if I get one, I will post an update.

Thanks to Krish for the alert.

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You don’t want your blog to look like a diva without make-up on Sunday morning, so set aside a little time for the switchover. Getting everything back is easy, but it isn’t an automatic process.

Making Windows Live Writer Work with Blogger Beta

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Google Adsense just made it easier to get more detailed statistics by using channels to find which ads are clicking most and making you rich quickly. Now you can track exactly which Google Adsense units really have a high click through rate (CTR) by adding multiple custom channels to each ad unit.

Quick Online Tips has well, tips on how to improve your adsense performance with a new feature, multiple custom channels.

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Only 1 out of every 100 readers of this post are likely to interact with it by leaving a comment.

ProBlogger gives you 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog.

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I have a challenge to the professional bloggers out there who blog for networks and don’t own their sites: are you making a living from this? I’m not talking a few hundred or a thousand a month, do you make enough from your unowned sites that you can pay rent/mortgage, utilities, car payments, etc. etc.?

Business Logs says that, “people that are paid writers for a blog they don’t own (and aren’t paid nearly full-time wages) are less passionate for the blog medium.” True?

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Even more ironic, the AdSense blog is ad free! Even more bizarre, the blogs by Googlers are ad free.

KarmaDude at Counterjumper has made an astute observation that all official Google blogs are ad-free. Is Google trying to say something?

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• Write in inverted pyramid style: first get to the point and mention the core ideas, then fill in the details in later paragraphs. The first and second sentence should allow people to decide if they want to continue reading this.
• The first link is the one most people click on, so it should also be the main link for your article. Also, too many links too close to each other diffuse your point and make you less of a filter, and a (news) blog should always be a filter for others.

Good Blog Writing Style

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