The vanishing act – Feed stats

Feed Stats, which was a feature available at WordPress for bloggers to look at how many people are reading their blogs with feeds and using which software, was shown the pink slip about a week ago. The official announcement is here. Personally, it was just another graphic to look at every evening, and wonder how [...]

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Of feeding Orkut and being fed by Google

Orkut has added another feature to its bouquet: that of adding your feeds to your profile. This could mean you can add your Flickr or Picasa Album feeds, or even your Blogger or WordPress feeds. Other feeds like news and jokes from popular websites can be added, if that is sensible. Google also acts [...]

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The singularity named Google

With a very unpopular blogger like me as its author, the only hits my pitiful blog manages to generate are from the search engines. In today’s world the search engines are instant oracles. Google has become a verb of sorts and might pop up in the next Oxford dictionary (with a big copyright symbol of [...]

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Launch of Swiss Dossiers

As has become the de facto standard now, one ought to start a new blog dedicated to one’s internship. So let me board the train too. So here is announcing the Launch of Swiss Dossiers @ http://swissdossiers.wordpress.com. Everyone is invited.
For the sake of completeness, I have a two and half month internship at EPFL [...]

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WordPress vs Blogger

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Heeding one Madame Rowling, let me try to jot down why [...]

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First day, First show

Push da button, and off we go. Blogging really is instant moksha, by the digital bodhi tree. I wont say as a blogger I have grown wisdom teeth yet, but it sure has been a long while since I shed my milk teeth. Gee! But hey with every new start, there are those additional drops [...]

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