Re: Hello, world

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Jul 192006
 

Thank you for visiting! If you’re reading this, you are probably already aware that I’ve moved my blog to my own domain.

I must thank the Government of India for spurring me to make this move. The decision to move has been on the cards for a while; but the Government order restraining ISPs from providing access to the Blogspot.com domain (or the interpretation of same, by the ISPs) proved to be the catalyst.

This change requires some effort, for it pushes me from a known territory to an unknown. However, moving to WordPress has been a nice experience — a lot less blood than I had assumed. To be honest, I have had very few complaints about Blogger; but WordPress is good in its own way. It puts me in control. Special thanks to Thejo for helping me make the switch!

In case you have bookmarked or blogrolled my earlier blog (link), please update your links to this one: http://www.vkpedia.com. Even otherwise, you can bookmark / link to me. In case you are using a feedreader, the feed URL is http://www.vkpedia.com/feed. Your visits and comments spur me on.

This switch is currently a work in progress. If you find something awry, do let me know. Once again, thanks for visiting! Have a great time here!

 Posted by Vijay Narayanan at 11:13 am

One year on…

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May 312006
 

To start a blog is easy; but to maintain one is among the toughest things…

… thus started a mediocre blog. A year and 200 posts later, it still remains that way – more importantly, it remains!

Today is my first blogiversary.

Thanks everyone for tolerating my rants; thanks especially to those who drop in regularly in the hope of finding out “Has this person written something useful at least this time?”

 Posted by Vijay Narayanan at 3:32 pm

Awaiting Mr. 10000

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Feb 222006
 
As of this writing, VKpedia has received 9996 hits (of which a good number should be from a narcissist, whom my parents named Vijay Krishna). When I started out, I did not know that 40 people would care to look up my corner in Cyberia every single day.I didn’t realise I would be part (however small that might have been) of something as ground-shaking as Bloggers v/s IIPM. Never realised I would meet hundreds of new people – none of whom I have ever seen or spoken to. Yet, I have wondered how they would react to some news, incident or occurrence.

I remember, when I was in high school, I dreamed that I would be a great person some day, and I would have a website where I would put my thoughts and people who fall over each other and read it. In a way, therefore, my idea of blogging had started even before blogs first originated.

My first blog was christened Notes of a Nomad, rather appropriately I must say, because I subtitled it “a wanderlust in spirit”. That fantasy ran for four weeks, after which I had decided that it was enough. Subsequent attempts should compete for stupidity awards. Then one fine day, I stumbled on the name VKpedia as a play on Wikipedia. I created a blog more to hog that name rather than with any other serious idea. The rest is his-story…

Blogging has been a learning experience through and through. I might not have been a devoted learner, but the new vistas this hobby has opened are boundless. You may not like it, dear reader, but I love blogging, and I will continue doing it!

 Posted by Vijay Narayanan at 8:50 pm

Off to Bhubaneswar…

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Aug 202005
 

I am going on an all expenses paid semi-official trip to Bhubaneswar. Will get back in four days.

 Posted by Vijay Narayanan at 7:43 am

Hello, world

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May 312005
 

To start a blog is easy; but to maintain one is among the toughest things in life. Well begun is half done was never more wrong than in the case of my experiences in blogosphere.

But why should I blog? I don’t think that there are any serious justifications for this newly proposed adventure. If there are, then they should be against rather than for. But let me try thinking of some reasons.

1. Newspapers might become a non-existant commodity in the future. The frequency and static nature of printed newspapers are bottlenecks compared to minute-by-minute update that can be provided by online news sources. In such a world, anyone would be free to comment, but only few would be listened to. Such commentators and analysts need not wait for newspapers to approach them; rather they can publish their ideas immediately. This puts power into their hands.

2. Blogosphere demands that people be serious about what they do – else they run out of favour.

3. Recently, by tracking the opinions of people in the blogosphere, Microsoft was able to understand modifications it should bring into it’s products. This is much more cost-effective than getting AC Nielsen to do an online survey.

But none of these are my reasons to blog. I am doing this not because I’ll be seen as the next leading light or that someone can serialise my work and put it up as the next big thing. I do so many things these days for which I know not the reason. Blogging is just another addition to that list.

I blog because I blog.

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