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From Gapingvoid

It’s Blog Daytoday and Blog Day initiator Nir Ofir suggests that we link to five other bloggers, from other countries, cultures, areas of interests and attitudes so that:

on this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.

Great Bong linked to PakPositive, The Scientific Indian, PutVote, The Collage and The War For News. As none of these sites are anywhere near Demented, it seems that he has stuck to the “other areas of interests” brief.

Neha linked to Dervish, And Your Little Dog Too, The Head Heeb, A Walk In The Clouds and Indianwriting last year, although she did not link to five blogs this year

Mostly because I link to stuff the year through.

Zickzackly also wriggled out of his list of five, but pointed me to Nir’s original blogand the origin of Blog Day 2005:

Have you ever noticed that the date 3108 (August 31st) looks like the word “Blog”? I have noticed it when I was in the first Blog conference that was held in Israel and I doodled it on a paper. On that day I started to roll an idea that I hope would become a global tradition.

My blog is worth $16,936.20.
How much is your blog worth?

Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, Dane Carlson of Business Opportunities has created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays a blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

My blog is worth $16,936.20.

Here’s what a few popular Indian personal blogs are worth:

Amit’s India Uncut is worth $461,793.72

Rashmi’s Youth Curry is worth $346,063.02

Gaurav’s Vantage Point is worth $209,444.34

Great Bong’s Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind is worth $204,363.48

Annie’s Known Turf is worth $186,862.74

Kiruba’s blog is worth $176,136.48

Neha’s Within & Without is worth $149,038.56

Jai’s  Jabberwock is worth $128,150.58

Kaps’ Sambhar Mafia is worth $103,875.36

Sonia’s blog is worth $93,713.64

Patrix’s Nerve Endings Firing Away is worth $78,471.06

Sakshi’s  To Each His Own is worth $75,083.82

Chandrachoodan’s Selective Amnesia is worth $72,261.12

Nilu’s Recursive Hypocrisy is worth $36,695.10

Of the popular Indian group blogs,

Sepia Mutiny is worth $380,499.96

Desicritics is worth $270,979.20

Pickled Politics is worth $219,041.52

 From Gapingvoid  

(Cross-posted at Desi Critics)

Every astrologer of every type I have ever consulted has told me that I’ll start a business of my own one day. It has always looked unlikely. One, I have no money at all, no money from my family, no money of my own; and while future earnings count, I have already counted it and spent it all. And, two, when I don’t even have the commitment to have a steady relationship, how likely am I to have the commitment to build a business?

I did consider it seriously once, in my IIM-B days, when I wrote a business plan for a transcription based ITES start-up. It was late 2001 and those things were mushrooming everywhere, medical transcription, legal transcription, and I don’t even remember what else. Riding on the ITES story, our plan also found some enthusiasm in business plan contests in India and our institute even sponsored us to participate in an international business plan contest at Hawaii! We stayed walking distance away from Waikiki beach and had a wonderful trip, but did not find favor with the VCs.