Blogs I follow and enjoy

Just wanted to quickly point you to some blogs I read and enjoy which you might like too...


Recently I discovered the blog of Cal Newport, who is extremely productive, completed his Phd, wrote three books, maintains a popular blog at calnewport.com and eagerly shares his productivity tips.

A must read:
http://calnewport.com/blog/

After these there are other blogs I read and have thought provoking posts.. you can sample them to see if you like..

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

https://signalvnoise.com/

http://alearningaday.com/

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/blog/

I love Tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging software and I am loving using it. how is it different from other blogging platforms?

It is more a platform for sharing quotes, pictures and links we like more than writing long blog posts

It makes sharing quotes so easier - Just select some text on the page and click the share on Tumblr bookmarklet and a quote type of post is shared on tumblr.

It has lovely themes - more stunning themes than in blogger

These two things have made me love it.. Now I use delicious for saving and sharing good links (Delicious automatically posts to twitter). Twitter has a 140 character limit and everything is a url where we have to click to see it, Tumblr simply helps aggregate all the good content in one place.

Just take a look and may be you will also like it very much.

This is my tumblog: http://ananth.tumblr.com/

Check it and let me know your comments.

Celebrating the 100th Post.. Thanks to you

My Blogging Journey

I think I created my first blog in 2006. I thought it was a good way to make money. I think I was inspired from oniondosa.blogspot.com which was a blog about telugu movies. I created a blog (I dont remember the name) and wrote the review of movie Pokiri which I saw then and published. That was the only post in that blog. After that I couldn't continue it. Then I read many tech blogs which I still read today (Techcrunch, Gigaom, AVC) etc and then I was really hooked. I became so excited that my first post when I started this blog, my first post was My most visited websites in 2006. In January 2007, when I started this blog, I wrote about 18 posts on various topics.. Tech posts, recommendations, hot news, movie reviews etc.. but then the steam went out soon. In February there were no posts at all. And in 2007 I wrote just three more posts two in May and one in June. I restarted blogging again in October 2008 with emphasis on sharing what was going on in my mind and to share good links with everyone. I have gone pretty much strong from then with many posts on various topics. The topics which interested me was life, how to lead a good life, what is the aim of life and explored about relationships like love and friendship, social obligations like marriage and monogamy, my reactions on current topics like Mumbai attack, death of YSR, satyam fiasco and general elections and lyrics for a various songs I liked and enjoyed and reviews of books I have read and movies I have seen. Apart from these, I have written reactions to blog posts by various other authors like Seth Godin, Arundhati Roy etc.

The most popular post in this blog is a post of lyrics of the song Seheri in Oy movie. There are 22 comments in that, ofcourse half of them mine, but I was really happy about the way people have curated the lyrics and we ended up creating the complete lyrics. It was the first result in google for it then and it drove the traffic to the blog.

This blog is mostly a collection of thoughts which I think, of music, books, poems and lyrics and movies which I like and thoughts of other people which I am inspired to share.

Thank You All

I want to thank you all for visiting the blog and commenting. Your comments are the boost for my blog posts. I want to thank Ketan, Vyshu, Srinivas, Raj, Saandeep, Sukumar, Vidya for regularly visiting and commenting on my blog. I would like to thank Susheel and Sharath for trying to understand the fast lyrics of Seheri and posting here. Keep visiting the blog and leave your valuable comments for discussion.

Implementing Disqus comments and trackback & A new blog

I am using Disqus comment system for this blog to provide a wider conversation scope.

I have also started a new blog to review the books I have read at ABookStation and find my review of 'Waiting for the Mahatma' there.

Blogging Course

Simpleology is offering a free course on blogging... 

And you can get it for free by just writing about it on your blog.. 

i will go through that and review it 

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.

Get A Free Art of the Start - Signed by Guy Kawasaki

There is this website called startup.in which is a site to profile the start-ups in India. It has news and views on the start-ups based in India. Wish it will become something like techcrunch.com to India. In order to publicize the site as well as startups in india, this site has started a unique offer. It is offering famous book by Guy Kawasaki ( Author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" ) , "Art of the start" book signed by the guy itself. It can be obtained it two ways. One you can write articles about the startups-- You can tell how and what related to a startup. You write those essays, publish in your blogs or somewhere else but post the link in the comments below the topic and you can stand to win a book for free or else if you just write about this scheme in any blog also you can win it if you are lucky. Go to this page and check it.. http://startups.in/India/story.php?title=Get-Art--Start-free-Autographed-by-Guy-Kawasaki

You can read the review of the book at
http://www.demop.com/thetedrap/2005/05/book-review-art-of-start-guy-kawasaki.html

visit the blog of kawasaki at blog.guykawasaki.com

All the best!