Make your Blog Popular

See what the Technorati founder and CEO, David L. Sifry, has to say about making your blog popular....

Here's his advice....

1) React quickly. Commentators like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Malkin draw megatraffic with immediate rebuttals to A-list pundits at The New York Times and Fox News.

2) Make your posts easy to read. Italian comic Beppe Grillo broke into the Top 10 by setting his key points in boldface.

3) Link, link, link! It's counter-intuitive, but the busiest blogs in Technorati's index are those like InstaPundit.com that link prolifically to other sites. Linking works because most bloggers reciprocate by sending their readers your way.

4) Optimize for search engines. Put the name of your blog (even if it's just your own name) in the main URL and the title tag of your site. On Technorati, identify your blog with search topics, like "politics" or "sewing."

5) Post, post, post! Chinese actress and director Xu Jinglei has the most popular blog on the planet. At first we thought it was a glitch in our system, but it turns out she's a real-world celebrity who makes time to post almost every day. What's your excuse?

Courtesy - Wired Magazine

Make Money from Blogs

Though I started my blogs just as a new and interesting learning experience, these days I am finding a lot of blogs discussing about using blogs to earn money. Overall the model they put for earning money seems to make sense. Most of them are just MLM kind and want you to register and get enrolled to some of their paid programs first. However some are really valid and good plain articles giving you proper information.

Today I found this one a bit authentic. Darren Rowse's How Bloggers Make money from blogs. The summary of his article is -

1- Advertising Programs 2- RSS Advertising 3- Sponsorship 4- Affiliate Programs 5- Digital Assets 6- Blog Network Writing Gigs 7- Business Blog Writing Gigs 8- Non Blogging Writing Gigs 9- Donations 10- Flipping Blogs 11- Merchandising 12- Consulting and Speaking

If I find something more on it, I will update this post.

Corruption Fast

One day, in my friends group, while we were discussing about the different problmes bugging the growth of our Country, Corruption emerged as the prominent bug. Almost everybody gets involved in this Corruption Cycle, willingly or unwillingly, voluntarily or forciably. One has to offer money to get his work done, while some one has to be a part of group/racket, which is some or the other way linked to Corruption. It has gone to an extent that some fanatic people are demanding to make it legal.

While I was just thinking about how this corruption can be controlled, at some later stage, one off beat thought struck to my mind. I thought, though I am not an expert/authority on this subjects, at least, I can share whatever came to my mind, with others.

Its something like this. We in India, follow many religious rituals, by utmost faith. One such ritual is Fasting. So I thought, why not suggest keeping a Fast for Corruption? The idea is, one has to maintain Corruption fast as like religious fast, either weekly once, monthly once, or for a month in a year, whatever format. One can either make it open to public or keep it private that he is maintaining such a fast. On the Corruption Fast day, the person has to avoid getting involved in any way with Corruption transactions. Dont give/accept bribe for any type of work on this day. Announcing to public will help in a way, people will not force you to get indulged in such transactions. Slowly it will get accepted as a Social standard. It may not eradicate Corruption, but I hope it will surely reduce the percentage of it. It will give a strong support to people who are unwillingly/forciably dragged into Corruption Cycles.

How do you think about this idea? Give your comments / feedbacks / any improvements in concept. If you like it, help spreading it in the online community, by sending mails, discussing it in your blogs, forums etc. Digg it if you appreciate it.

The Great Radio Controversy

This article proves that Jagadishchandra Bose, an Indian scientist had invented Radio Transmission technology well before Mr. Marconi, however, just fitting to be an Indian, he never attempted to get a patent or get a commercial benefit out of it. And the world as ever goes always behind the things that shine and glitter.

Excerpts from an Article in Wikipedia
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Jagdish Chandra Bose in is lab.

In November 1894, the Bengali Indian physicist, Jagdish Chandra Bose, demonstrated publicly the use of radio waves in Calcutta, but he was not interested in patenting his work.^[17] In 1894, Bose ignited gunpowder and rang a bell at a distance using electromagnetic waves, showing independently that communication signals can be sent without using wires. In 1896, the Daily Chronicle of England reported on his UHF experiments: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this new theoretical marvel." The 1895 public demonstration by Bose in Calcutta was before Marconi's wireless signalling experiment on Salisbury Plain in England in May 1897.^[18][19]

Bose was not interested in the commercial applications of the experiment's transmitter. He did not try to file patent protection for sending signals. In 1899, Bose announced the development of a "iron-mercury-iron coherer with telephone detector" in a paper presented at the Royal Society, London.^[20] Later he received U.S. Patent 755,840 , "Detector for electrical disturbances" (1904), for a specific electromagnetic receiver.

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Unfortunately, it is still the case. Many Indians are contributing to 100s of new patents but for the Non Indian Companies, to the benefit of Non Indians. We must wake to the call of time and start filing patents as an Indian for the benefit of India/ns.