Category Archives: Blogging

Nostalgia, FLS and Social Media pet peeves

So, I’m feeling nostalgic about my online content creation experience for two reasons. First: a couple of days ago, I met the guy who facilitated online content creation for me and had a long discussion on new media - what was, is and will be - apart from what almost everyone is doing wrong now. […]

More Blog Pimping

Shyam writes about a comment pimping Jhanki.com. I deleted the comment pimping ilaaka.com and onyomo.com here at MixedBag. Blogger didn’t stop it, but at ContentSutra, the Akismet spam plugin caught the post and put it where it belongs - in the Spam section, alongwith comments advertising weight loss phentermine, valium and other strange things.
The […]

Blogger Beta Problem

I have a problem with Blogger Beta - the integration with Google accounts sucks.
Mixed Bag (this blog) has not yet switched over to Blogger Beta; in fact, if I have to redo the entire design, I’m not too keen. Ankit looks like he had to do away with his excellent design, and settle for an […]

Blogger Beta: We have categories !

The Bewra Kekra informs me that BLOGGER FINALLY HAS CATEGORIES. So I might not shift to my own domain.
From Blogger Buzz:
With the beta you can:

Categorize your posts with labels
Control who can read your blog
Change the appearance and content of your blog with your mouse instead of HTML

Take the tour here. Still in beta, so it’s […]

Blocked again…

My access to blogspot blocks is blocked. Since I’m able to access blogs via proxy-sites, it seems that the blog block has been reinstated. I’m on MTNL Delhi. A few mails have already been posted on Bloggers Collective. In case your access is blocked, go to the Bloggers Collective Wiki for assistance.
Some pakistani bloggers had […]

NDTV Blogs go live

post page at NDTV Blogs
NDTV’s response to CNN-IBN’s blog initiative, has gone live a few hours ago. Observations:
* Blogs on a domain separate from NDTV.com: In an attempt to get ahead of IBNLive which had initially intended to allow users to post, NDTV allows you to register and host your blog at www.ndtvblogs.com. In […]

Hammer time!

Yo Yo Yo! Wassup dawgs? YO! MC Hammer! Yo! He’s (Yo!) got a blog.
Yo!
There, he posts photos of THE MAN (MC Hammer, yo!) playing baseball, talks about the maturation of hip hop (Yo!), and love:
“There are so many degrees, levels and types of love. I love baseball, I love music, I love going to the […]

All hail the Jabberwock!

Jabberwock, rather Mr. Jai Arjun Singh, has won the Indibloggie for the Best Humanities Blog (heh). After a bloggers meet at DV8, I had sat down to write a review that I never did complete. It was a review written in jest, but who knows, this could be prophetic. O-)
You may skip to ‘What didn’t […]

On Bloggers’ Meets, Collablogs and more…

“Despite tall claims, the city’s blogosphere is still inhabited by few, as the recently held Delhi Blog Meet revealed…”

It was one of the DBM-II’s meets that a reporter from TOI attended and wrote about in today’s city supplement. Though the article doesn’t mention a name, he has been identified as James by Tarun Pall, the […]