Comments on: Blog Day – 31st August 2005 http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/ A Point of View Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:00:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Padma Lakshmi http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 Padma Lakshmi Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:56:55 +0000 http://calamur.org/gargi/?p=404#comment-2092 Hi...Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts about Blog Day - 31st August 2005 comin..holy Monday .

Hi…Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts about Blog Day – 31st August 2005 comin..holy Monday .

]]> By: Padma Lakshmi http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-2075 Padma Lakshmi Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:25:57 +0000 http://calamur.org/gargi/?p=404#comment-2075 Hi...I Googled for chennai india map, but found your page about Blog Day - 31st August 2005...and have to say thanks. nice read.

Hi…I Googled for chennai india map, but found your page about Blog Day – 31st August 2005…and have to say thanks. nice read.

]]> By: zigzackly http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-501 zigzackly Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:48 +0000 http://calamur.org/gargi/?p=404#comment-501 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Wednesday, August 31, 2005 To our anonymous Bloglines subscribers  We see that 32 individuals have done us the honour of subscribing to our humble feed. However, only seven of them have done so publicly. We're wondering now, is it our breath? Are we an unfashionable URL to admit to reading? Do tell. You could mail and satisfy our curiosity. Or hit the comments section on this post.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 12:04 AM | 11 Comments May your blogrolls gather no moss  It's blog day today, chaps.Dina posted about this ages ago, pointing to this Israeli blogger's page, where the meme started, and to a technorati tag you can use. Now, Harini sent a reminder around, and also points to a blog day wiki, which in turn points to a Guest Map you can register at.What's all the hoopla about? Well, the numbers "3108," the date today (we're cheating and sticky-posting this a day in advance) if you use the right typeface, and squint at them out of the corner of your eye, look like the letters "BlOg." Unless you're American, of course, in which case today is OgBl day.So Nir Ofir, the chap who started it, came up with this thought: I believe that we bloggers have to have one day in the year which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas of interests. I think, that not only that we need to know other bloggers; we need also to recommend about them to our Blog visitors.When I’m trying to see the end in mind, in this is day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs (in the same time). In this day all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown blogs. So, here are my recommendations for the day.Go see (snowed with work, we are, so we're being extra irresponsible): Our entire bloglines feed list. :)BlogDay2005    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 12:01 AM | 0 Comments Tuesday, August 30, 2005 You love me,  you really, really love me!    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 10:36 PM | 0 Comments Monday, August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina  And http://www.katrinahelp.info is the URL for a wiki started by some members of the SEA-EAT team. The group has put together a page that aggregates several blog feeds, and a set of links to individual blogs.Please email Rob, Rudi, Constantin, Angelo, Bala, Nancy and the others at katrinahelp.info@gmail.com or helpkatrina@gmail.com to volunteer to help with the wiki and news aggregation.They are also on Google Talk, so you could add katrinahelp.info@gmail.com to your buddy list. And they are running a wiki conference room on yahoo; to join the discussions live, please send your yahoo id to katrinahelp@yahoo.ca.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 11:59 PM | 0 Comments Sunday, August 28, 2005 Super-BlogThis!  Ken Dyck has given the BlogThis! button a bit of makeover. His version - which he calls XBlogThis!" - lets you add on Technorati tags, blockquotes instead of the double quote marks, and an author name. Go here for details and to pull the button to your browser bar.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 8:27 PM | 2 Comments Workbuster  Want something you can sneak into your spreadsheet or whatever you're supposed to be using at work instead of reading this blog? Try Ghostzilla. It's ...a Web browser like Firefox, but it shows up and disappears instantly, discreetly, blended with your application -- any application -- so the Web pages look like part of it and not like the Web at all.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 8:20 PM | 0 Comments Blogads Logo Contest  Blogads is running a Logo Contest. They're offering a US$1000 prize to the winning desgner, and US$300 to the blogger whose post inspires the winner. So remember where you read this, hm? [Via Blogger Buzz]    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 8:13 PM | 0 Comments Gosh  The Cloudburst Mumbai blog was on BoingBoing and we didn't notice.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 8:01 PM | 0 Comments The other Peter Griffin  For all you Family Guy fans, you're at the wrong blog. This is what you were searching for. Thanks for dropping by.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 7:59 PM | 0 Comments Saturday, August 27, 2005 With hesitancy  One of my close buddies in college lost his mum rather early. Breast cancer. At that time, I remember reading that it was a disease Parsi women were more likely to contract than other women. Recently - Sunday, I think it was - I remember reading that a study suggested that lots of French Fries eaten in their youth gave women higher breast cancer risks. (Can't remember which paper, but Google news lists quite a few variations on the theme.)Now, am I being weird and unscientific and generalising too much, or is it not a fact that Parsis eat a lot of sali, which admittedly aren't pre-processed, but still as close to French fries as you can get without visiting McD's?    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 5:44 AM | 0 Comments Friday, August 26, 2005 We bequeath to you...  our own search engine, all for you. Enjoy.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 8:49 PM | 0 Comments Sunday, August 21, 2005 O tempora, o advertising  We spent ten years in the funny farms, and then we dropped out. Rahul of Green Channel puts in words something we haven't been able to. Why, one day, you wake up and realise it's a different business from the one you started in, all those years ago, starry-eyed and ambitious.Advertising used to be fun. It was like a race to prove who was more imaginative, who had more brilliance, who'd be accepting a trophy at the awards functions during spring season. It was about provoking laughs and holding 50 million people's attention at the same time with your imagination playing out on screen. At the end of it they would all finally exhale or collapse in mirth after the killer punchline. And they'd never get tired of it. Years later people would recall the commercial and tell you how great it still was when they met youGo read the whole thing.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 4:29 PM | 0 Comments Tell us your Cloudburst stories  [Cross-posted on Cloudburst Mumbai]For the project I mentioned in this post, we're also looking for first-person accounts of the events of 26th July and the days after that.Where were you? At home, marooned in office, stranded somewhere between? How did you cope? What did you see? Did anything particularly nice happen to you? Or anything really nasty? Do you have pictures?If you've blogged it, send me the permalink. If you have an online album, send me the URL. Or email me. Accounts in languages other than English are welcome.Mail me, Peter Griffin, at zigzackly AT gmail DOT com, and put the words [ThinkBombay] in the subject line (with the square brackets), to get past the spam filters.Important: In your mail, I will need you to give me permission to:1. Publish your story or pictures, in print and online, with NO payment to you. (None of the people involved in the project are making any money from it. Most of us are donating at least our time, if not more.)2. Edit your contribution if I feel it is necessary.You will not be giving the me or the project exclusive rights to your writing or photography. You will continue to own the rights to your intellectual property.Update: The project is now moving faster, and further then we imagined it could. We need those stories now! Please mail me, and do also please pass this around to your friends, and link to it.Thanks muchly.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 2:38 AM | 0 Comments Saturday, August 20, 2005 Got music, got itchy feet.  Even got free iPod Subway Maps. Now, we need an iPod, of course. And money. And yes, a passport.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 3:31 AM | 1 Comments Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Number One power source for the future  You can read about it here. But first go see the Varma stripling's take.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 2:22 AM | 2 Comments Monday, August 01, 2005 Redefining the blog, live commentary and the column  Good morning, folks... New season, and it starts with Rahul Dravid opting to bat first, which in sub continental day/night conditions is invariably the safer choice. No morning dew to worry about, given the afternoon start... and with pitches typically slowing down as the day/night goes on, chasing becomes more difficult in the second session.Off to make coffee for myself... see you guys on here when the game begins...Quite an ordinary blog post, you might say. Another Indian with an opinion on cricket (: that's almost all of us :) babbling into his blog. But this post has, as of this writing, 1315 comments.The blogger in question? Prem Panicker, former dead-tree jouorno, now Managing Editor of Rediff in the USA. Old Rediff hands will remember "Panix" and his ball-by-ball commentary in Rediff's chat rooms. This blog (well before blogs existed, of course) once had a minor run-in with Panix when we, bored, decided to start a little action in one of those chats rooms by dissing Tendulkar. Panix, instead of using moderator rights to boot us, pinched out the fire by quickly, quietly, stating a few Tendulkar stats and asking what we based our opinion on. Chastened - we'd never make a good troll - we stayed quiet the rest of that match.But we digress. To find out why the post elicited so many comments, hit the HaloScan comments button. Panix, you'll be happy to note, has brought typed live commentary back. And with it, has stretched the concept of blogs as a dialogue between writers and readers into a whole new dimension. He answers questions, chats with them, and continues to talk about the game in progress. The post on the next game, India against the West Indies, has 880 comments.In a previous post, he talks about blogs as opposed to columns:I'm beginning to like blogs, more than the full-length columns I used to do earlier. Thing is, blogs give you tremendous flexibility -- there are times when an issue needs comment, but the comment itself needs to span only 100-200 words, tops. Trouble with column writing though is the form itself dictates a certain length -- and that means you end up stretching a good 200 word comment into an involved 1000 word column.This form here gives me the best of both worlds -- I can throw up a link, when the story is worth reading but doesn't necessarily call for comment; I can link and comment in a couple of lines if that is all it takes; or I can if I want to examine an issue in greater depth. Perfect. :-)    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink("zigzackly"); @ 2:53 AM | 3 Comments [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Wednesday, August 31, 2005 To our anonymous Bloglines subscribers  We see that 32 individuals have done us the honour of subscribing to our humble feed. However, only seven of them have done so publicly. We’re wondering now, is it our breath? Are we an unfashionable URL to admit to reading? Do tell. You could mail and satisfy our curiosity. Or hit the comments section on this post.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 12:04 AM | 11 Comments May your blogrolls gather no moss  It’s blog day today, chaps.Dina posted about this ages ago, pointing to this Israeli blogger’s page, where the meme started, and to a technorati tag you can use. Now, Harini sent a reminder around, and also points to a blog day wiki, which in turn points to a Guest Map you can register at.What’s all the hoopla about? Well, the numbers “3108,” the date today (we’re cheating and sticky-posting this a day in advance) if you use the right typeface, and squint at them out of the corner of your eye, look like the letters “BlOg.” Unless you’re American, of course, in which case today is OgBl day.So Nir Ofir, the chap who started it, came up with this thought: I believe that we bloggers have to have one day in the year which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas of interests. I think, that not only that we need to know other bloggers; we need also to recommend about them to our Blog visitors.When I’m trying to see the end in mind, in this is day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs (in the same time). In this day all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown blogs. So, here are my recommendations for the day.Go see (snowed with work, we are, so we’re being extra irresponsible): Our entire bloglines feed list. :) BlogDay2005    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 12:01 AM | 0 Comments Tuesday, August 30, 2005 You love me,  you really, really love me!    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 10:36 PM | 0 Comments Monday, August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina  And http://www.katrinahelp.info is the URL for a wiki started by some members of the SEA-EAT team. The group has put together a page that aggregates several blog feeds, and a set of links to individual blogs.Please email Rob, Rudi, Constantin, Angelo, Bala, Nancy and the others at katrinahelp.info@gmail.com or helpkatrina@gmail.com to volunteer to help with the wiki and news aggregation.They are also on Google Talk, so you could add katrinahelp.info@gmail.com to your buddy list. And they are running a wiki conference room on yahoo; to join the discussions live, please send your yahoo id to katrinahelp@yahoo.ca.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 11:59 PM | 0 Comments Sunday, August 28, 2005 Super-BlogThis!  Ken Dyck has given the BlogThis! button a bit of makeover. His version – which he calls XBlogThis!” – lets you add on Technorati tags, blockquotes instead of the double quote marks, and an author name. Go here for details and to pull the button to your browser bar.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 8:27 PM | 2 Comments Workbuster  Want something you can sneak into your spreadsheet or whatever you’re supposed to be using at work instead of reading this blog? Try Ghostzilla. It’s …a Web browser like Firefox, but it shows up and disappears instantly, discreetly, blended with your application — any application — so the Web pages look like part of it and not like the Web at all.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 8:20 PM | 0 Comments Blogads Logo Contest  Blogads is running a Logo Contest. They’re offering a US$1000 prize to the winning desgner, and US$300 to the blogger whose post inspires the winner. So remember where you read this, hm? [Via Blogger Buzz]    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 8:13 PM | 0 Comments Gosh  The Cloudburst Mumbai blog was on BoingBoing and we didn’t notice.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 8:01 PM | 0 Comments The other Peter Griffin  For all you Family Guy fans, you’re at the wrong blog. This is what you were searching for. Thanks for dropping by.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 7:59 PM | 0 Comments Saturday, August 27, 2005 With hesitancy  One of my close buddies in college lost his mum rather early. Breast cancer. At that time, I remember reading that it was a disease Parsi women were more likely to contract than other women. Recently – Sunday, I think it was – I remember reading that a study suggested that lots of French Fries eaten in their youth gave women higher breast cancer risks. (Can’t remember which paper, but Google news lists quite a few variations on the theme.)Now, am I being weird and unscientific and generalising too much, or is it not a fact that Parsis eat a lot of sali, which admittedly aren’t pre-processed, but still as close to French fries as you can get without visiting McD’s?    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 5:44 AM | 0 Comments Friday, August 26, 2005 We bequeath to you…  our own search engine, all for you. Enjoy.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 8:49 PM | 0 Comments Sunday, August 21, 2005 O tempora, o advertising  We spent ten years in the funny farms, and then we dropped out. Rahul of Green Channel puts in words something we haven’t been able to. Why, one day, you wake up and realise it’s a different business from the one you started in, all those years ago, starry-eyed and ambitious.Advertising used to be fun. It was like a race to prove who was more imaginative, who had more brilliance, who’d be accepting a trophy at the awards functions during spring season. It was about provoking laughs and holding 50 million people’s attention at the same time with your imagination playing out on screen. At the end of it they would all finally exhale or collapse in mirth after the killer punchline. And they’d never get tired of it. Years later people would recall the commercial and tell you how great it still was when they met youGo read the whole thing.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 4:29 PM | 0 Comments Tell us your Cloudburst stories  [Cross-posted on Cloudburst Mumbai]For the project I mentioned in this post, we’re also looking for first-person accounts of the events of 26th July and the days after that.Where were you? At home, marooned in office, stranded somewhere between? How did you cope? What did you see? Did anything particularly nice happen to you? Or anything really nasty? Do you have pictures?If you’ve blogged it, send me the permalink. If you have an online album, send me the URL. Or email me. Accounts in languages other than English are welcome.Mail me, Peter Griffin, at zigzackly AT gmail DOT com, and put the words [ThinkBombay] in the subject line (with the square brackets), to get past the spam filters.Important: In your mail, I will need you to give me permission to:1. Publish your story or pictures, in print and online, with NO payment to you. (None of the people involved in the project are making any money from it. Most of us are donating at least our time, if not more.)2. Edit your contribution if I feel it is necessary.You will not be giving the me or the project exclusive rights to your writing or photography. You will continue to own the rights to your intellectual property.Update: The project is now moving faster, and further then we imagined it could. We need those stories now! Please mail me, and do also please pass this around to your friends, and link to it.Thanks muchly.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 2:38 AM | 0 Comments Saturday, August 20, 2005 Got music, got itchy feet.  Even got free iPod Subway Maps. Now, we need an iPod, of course. And money. And yes, a passport.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 3:31 AM | 1 Comments Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Number One power source for the future  You can read about it here. But first go see the Varma stripling’s take.    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 2:22 AM | 2 Comments Monday, August 01, 2005 Redefining the blog, live commentary and the column  Good morning, folks… New season, and it starts with Rahul Dravid opting to bat first, which in sub continental day/night conditions is invariably the safer choice. No morning dew to worry about, given the afternoon start… and with pitches typically slowing down as the day/night goes on, chasing becomes more difficult in the second session.Off to make coffee for myself… see you guys on here when the game begins…Quite an ordinary blog post, you might say. Another Indian with an opinion on cricket (: that’s almost all of us :) babbling into his blog. But this post has, as of this writing, 1315 comments.The blogger in question? Prem Panicker, former dead-tree jouorno, now Managing Editor of Rediff in the USA. Old Rediff hands will remember “Panix” and his ball-by-ball commentary in Rediff’s chat rooms. This blog (well before blogs existed, of course) once had a minor run-in with Panix when we, bored, decided to start a little action in one of those chats rooms by dissing Tendulkar. Panix, instead of using moderator rights to boot us, pinched out the fire by quickly, quietly, stating a few Tendulkar stats and asking what we based our opinion on. Chastened – we’d never make a good troll – we stayed quiet the rest of that match.But we digress. To find out why the post elicited so many comments, hit the HaloScan comments button. Panix, you’ll be happy to note, has brought typed live commentary back. And with it, has stretched the concept of blogs as a dialogue between writers and readers into a whole new dimension. He answers questions, chats with them, and continues to talk about the game in progress. The post on the next game, India against the West Indies, has 880 comments.In a previous post, he talks about blogs as opposed to columns:I’m beginning to like blogs, more than the full-length columns I used to do earlier. Thing is, blogs give you tremendous flexibility — there are times when an issue needs comment, but the comment itself needs to span only 100-200 words, tops. Trouble with column writing though is the form itself dictates a certain length — and that means you end up stretching a good 200 word comment into an involved 1000 word column.This form here gives me the best of both worlds — I can throw up a link, when the story is worth reading but doesn’t necessarily call for comment; I can link and comment in a couple of lines if that is all it takes; or I can if I want to examine an issue in greater depth. Perfect. :-)    | Blogged for your discerning eye by makeprofilelink(“zigzackly”); @ 2:53 AM | 3 Comments [...]

]]> By: Trivial Matters: 3108 is coming http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Trivial Matters: 3108 is coming Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:45:40 +0000 http://calamur.org/gargi/?p=404#comment-500 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Tuesday, August 30, 2005 You got nothing to post ? Don't fret about it, in a few hours it's going to be 3108.S0 ? you ask. But here is where I land my punch, according to various blogger, I sip on through bloglines (here, here & here). 3108 IS BlogDay2005 , the day, you my fellow blogger can celebrate your attention seeking bloglifestyle with the world .Question - What's the funda here ? What is BlogDay 2005?BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. In this way, all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.Read the original post Nir Ofir, the creator of BlogDay, wrote. What will happen on BlogDay?For one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers. Why do we need a BlogDay?1. Information Overflow! The more Blogs there are, the less time Bloggers spend on reading new weblogs. Because of the overload of information, you miss a lot of good Blogs and Bloggers.2. Its Fun! So all you have to do is some blogsurfing and find 5 blogs [you like] and tag, link and pull them in.Catchy meme eh ?So Here goes.1> The first blog I've choosen is The 3rd world view, a very sharp blog from Bangladesh. Rezwan, has a very indsightful view on various issues troubling the subcontinent. I also remember reading his round up of the Bombay Deluge on Global Voices.2> The second blog that caught my eye is hosted by the BBC as a part of their AfricaLives series. It chronicles the experiences of Lilian Indombera, a teacher and performer who’s been splitting her time between her native Nairobi and Burundian refugee camps in Tanzania. Here a picture I picked from the blog , taken at the refugee camp.I also found this beautiful quote by Mother Theresa on the blog which said "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is a drop in the ocean but the ocean would be less without that drop."3> The third blog is the personal blog a Stanford Law Proffessor, Lawerence Lessig. Who is compenplating the legalities of Pop Art and other copyright issues. Can Campell Soup sue Andy Warhol ?. Interesting to say the least.4> Languages is a barrier ? Well Pictures breach that barrier. The 4th blog in my selection is the photpblog of Japanese photojourno, Hiroshi Okamoto - who is currently stationed in Iraq. Here is his Iraq photo journal and here is his general photoblog. Makes for hours of great viewing.5> My last blog is double eddition travelougue of two self confessed Indophiles interestingly named Jamie and Michele vs. India ver 2.0.Wow !!! doing this was great. I just travelled more than 1000miles sitting here at my computer. Browsing some of these blogs you get a wonderful perspective on now similar some of the world's problems are . Geography is secondary to humanity or the blogosphere. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Tuesday, August 30, 2005 You got nothing to post ? Don’t fret about it, in a few hours it’s going to be 3108.S0 ? you ask. But here is where I land my punch, according to various blogger, I sip on through bloglines (here, here & here). 3108 IS BlogDay2005 , the day, you my fellow blogger can celebrate your attention seeking bloglifestyle with the world .Question – What’s the funda here ? What is BlogDay 2005?BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. In this way, all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.Read the original post Nir Ofir, the creator of BlogDay, wrote. What will happen on BlogDay?For one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers. Why do we need a BlogDay?1. Information Overflow! The more Blogs there are, the less time Bloggers spend on reading new weblogs. Because of the overload of information, you miss a lot of good Blogs and Bloggers.2. Its Fun! So all you have to do is some blogsurfing and find 5 blogs [you like] and tag, link and pull them in.Catchy meme eh ?So Here goes.1> The first blog I’ve choosen is The 3rd world view, a very sharp blog from Bangladesh. Rezwan, has a very indsightful view on various issues troubling the subcontinent. I also remember reading his round up of the Bombay Deluge on Global Voices.2> The second blog that caught my eye is hosted by the BBC as a part of their AfricaLives series. It chronicles the experiences of Lilian Indombera, a teacher and performer who’s been splitting her time between her native Nairobi and Burundian refugee camps in Tanzania. Here a picture I picked from the blog , taken at the refugee camp.I also found this beautiful quote by Mother Theresa on the blog which said “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is a drop in the ocean but the ocean would be less without that drop.”3> The third blog is the personal blog a Stanford Law Proffessor, Lawerence Lessig. Who is compenplating the legalities of Pop Art and other copyright issues. Can Campell Soup sue Andy Warhol ?. Interesting to say the least.4> Languages is a barrier ? Well Pictures breach that barrier. The 4th blog in my selection is the photpblog of Japanese photojourno, Hiroshi Okamoto – who is currently stationed in Iraq. Here is his Iraq photo journal and here is his general photoblog. Makes for hours of great viewing.5> My last blog is double eddition travelougue of two self confessed Indophiles interestingly named Jamie and Michele vs. India ver 2.0.Wow !!! doing this was great. I just travelled more than 1000miles sitting here at my computer. Browsing some of these blogs you get a wonderful perspective on now similar some of the world’s problems are . Geography is secondary to humanity or the blogosphere. [...]

]]> By: DesiPundit » Now there’s Blog Day too http://calamur.org/gargi/2005/08/29/blog-day-31st-august-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-499 DesiPundit » Now there’s Blog Day too Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:45:22 +0000 http://calamur.org/gargi/?p=404#comment-499 [...] Harini brings our attention to the first ever Blog Day celebrated all over the blogosphere on the 31st of August. You will be even more surprised why that date was selected. [...] [...] Harini brings our attention to the first ever Blog Day celebrated all over the blogosphere on the 31st of August. You will be even more surprised why that date was selected. [...]

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