From Gapingvoid
That I already have too many unresolved high-school issues, I have decided to let this be my only post today.
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RICKSHAW-SHAYARI POSTSCRIPT
Ay admi! Haram khana chhor dey.
Tyre mehngay hain, race lagana chhor dey.
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From Gapingvoid
These are interesting days in the world of social bookmarking. Diigo is trying to position itself as an alternative to both del.icio.us and Digg, Weblogs is willing to pay bloggers $1,000 a month for their social bookmarking rights, and two very active Indian bloggers - Kingsley and Chandrachoodan - have started ‘PutVote’.
Now, PutVote is not the first indian social bookmarking site; Indian Pad, Indiagram and Forums of India have existed in the Indian blogosphere for a while.
I started an experiment about a week back and submitted the same stories (55-fiction pieces from my blog) in all these four sites. The idea was to track the relative number of responses from the four sites. In six days, India Pad generated 156 hits, PutVote 27 hits, Indiagram 7 hits and Forums of India 3 hits. Evidently, Indian Pad seems to be the most popular of the four sites in terms of traffic.
In terms of appearance and functionality, Indian Pad once more is the best (but also the most impersonal with an off-puttingly high amount of porn), Indiagram is OK, PutVote is work-in-progress and Forums of India is quite bad.
From Gapingvoid
Jason Calacanis, the CEO of the blogging network Weblogs, Inc. writes that he is willing to pay bloggers $1,000 a month for their ’social bookmarking’ rights given that they put in at least 150 stories a month. Link from Desipundit.
I’m absolutely convinced that the top 20 people on DIGG, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit are worth $1,000 a month and if we’re the first folks to pay them that is fine with me-we will take the risk and the arrows from the folks who think we’re corrupting the community process.
Amit, why don’t you try your hand at this? As far as ways of making money from blogging go, this looks more right than wrong.
And no, you don’t need to be disappointed. This post does have a 55-fiction piece, here.
Amul has a tradition of using topical cartoons in advertising. Here’s a series of Amul ads based on movies, from a link on Indian Pad.
