Content adaptation

Small is big, is the mantra for our generation. It is taken to be the gospel truth; hence it has been followed strictly. And the result is for everyone to see. Everything is shrinking. Be it clothes or websites.

For websites to get smaller is not a feasible option, but to enable it on a small device, definitely is! And so it has been done. Personal Digital Assistants or PDA’s can now allow websites to be displayed on their screens and be worked on. And the process of shrinking the website from our computer screen to the PDA screen is what we call content adaptation.

Simply put, content adaptation is the process by which content is made adaptable or suitable for other devices. It often branches out into media content and web content. And this content is what is reformed and made adaptable for the small screen thriving in the palm of your hand.

While one may not put much thought to it while using or browsing the data on the mobile phone, content adaptation, indeed has had a historic beginning. It is gaining momentum and will very soon dominate the entire internet market. The end is nowhere in sight and will not be as long as mobile phone screens stay small.

Websites have to launch mobile-friendly versions for them to work on the PDA’s but some cell phones such as the I-phone, have websites that are specially modified for them. Reason being, that specific phones, such as the I-phone cannot comprehend the mobile friendly version of certain sites.

People may introduce complex devices like the Blackberry and the I-phone, but nothing is going to stop content adaptation to work on them. Mobile internet is the next big ‘thing’ in the world of the internet and nothing can stop it from spreading like the virus!

Content writing

Internet thrives on content. Just as we breathe in oxygen to survive, the internet needs content to thrive on. It becomes essential for a website or a webpage to have constructive content. And that’s where content writing comes in.

A profession having taken the world by surprise, content writing has changed the face of online marketing. It is a profession which doesn’t need a qualifying degree or diploma. This then enables every man to give it a shot and make a living out of content writing. Like every coin has two sides, content writing also has its pros and cons. It has opened doors to millions all over the world; but has also increased the amount of spam.

At a time when the farthest person on the planet is only a few clicks away and technology is craving an online market, content writing has only an upward ladder to climb. A profession which is only a click away to millions, the scope for revenue generation is huge, to say the least.

While many make money out of content writing, a larger number of people make money out of teaching people to write content. While this may work for some, it may prove to be a disaster for many. Writing may be a cup of tea for some, for others it may be as difficult as rock climbing.

Content writing calls for specialists as well as rookies. For someone who is experienced, providing content may become the easiest way to generate revenue and as far as a rookie is concerned, he can make his mark in this industry with persistence and practice.

There are many who have made content writing a full-time business. Since most transactions happen online, a great amount of trust has to be shared between the provider and customer. Even before that, customer acquisition is a skill that has to be mastered. Once that has been achieved, making money is not far away.

Content designer

The success of a website depends chiefly on the design and content. While many were unaware of the importance of both factors, their significance increases drastically when put together. The purpose of the website is to inform and with the correct content, the website can become extremely useful. Content designers are credited for the content they provide on website.

Content designers provide content for numerous websites. The content may be visual or written. It may be specific to science, arts or commerce. While certain content designers can dabble in almost every field there is, some specialize in certain subjects. With the freedom of choice available to all content designers, they can choose to take up any number of assignments they are comfortable with and be compensated handsomely for it.

While the market for content designers is huge, to enter and successfully carve a niche for oneself can be difficult. But once an entry is made, there is no looking back. Success follows hard work and with content designers, it’s no different. To be successful in this field of work, a strong need for discipline is felt.

Content designers have a plethora of options to choose from. They can provide content for e-books, websites; they can work on translations or be ghost writers. They can make a decent living out of it as well as provide content for a little extra pocket money.

The need for a strong hold over the language they provide content is essential without which a content designer cannot be successful. As far as providing content is concerned, practice is what makes man perfect and while constant efforts one can develop their skills and use them to make a thriving career. While there may be no secret formula to ensure success for a content designer, one should keep trying and take on as much work as possible.

Just like every profession is built on hard work and strategy, content designing also requires the extra effort. Content designers can make or break a website. With that responsibility, one is sure to find sincere and dedicated designers if they know where to look.

Blogger Interview # 5 Karthik

Words can not be found to describe fame and popularity, Contorted Reality has gained in a very short span of time. Karthik, the wizard of words and creator and writer of this blog, answered a few questions for us recently and here I present them before you.

Tell our readers a bit about yourself:

Affable. Amiable. Candid. Egotist. Gamer. Internet-addict. English language enthusiast. Poetic. Polyglot. Realist. Urbane.

Your favorites:

blog/blogger - I do not blogroll/follow people for the heck of it... That should suffice. There is something unique about each blog on my blogroll. Gotta visit to find out. :)

blogging platform (blogger/wordpress/etc) - Impressed by Wordpress' premium offers, but will be forever tilted towards Blogger (its "choking" notwithstanding...); a Google devotee, after all!

Your definition of blogging would be:

A portal... That takes you in to the mind of the person behind those words.

"Blogging as a social medium." Your thoughts on this:

Oh yes, blogging ranks right up there with the top social networking websites. After all, it is only too human to feel like interacting with a fellow blogger; someone who has caught your attention with his/her writing. Of course, one has to accept the other's privacy if he/she isn't willing to connect in any other social network. Blogger/Wordpress seems to suffice, anyway!

Some words about your blog/blogs:

The exultant one indites... Is *Reality* an *Illusion*..? Is *Illusion* a *Reality*..? I dare say - *Contorted Reality*. And *Twisted Illusions*. Literature-style narration, emotive poetry, pragmatic opinions and philosophy for them philistines!

Your views on dead/ghost blogs revolving in the blogosphere:

Their presence is SO irritating when you cannot have a domain name of your choice, just because the blog having the domain name you wanted is long dead. (Speaking from experience, here!) But I guess there are other good ones - which have something worth reading; be it poetry, an opinion, etc. It does come as a pleasant surprise when you stumble across one...

The most defining moment of your blogging life:

One of my poems on child abuse/pornography drew quite a good response. More importantly, people came forward and shared their work on the same subject. I am not sure if this classifies as "defining", but yes, it did give me the satisfaction of having reached out...

If anyone reading this wishes to share their composition, feel free to drop a link .

How much time has it been for you in the blog world :

Been a little over two years now. But it has to be mentioned that my first year-and-half in blogsville was more of a personal affair (a private blog @ Opera).

"Blogging as a medium is often used for venting out ire, grudges, narration of love and heart breaks and sad romantic tales." Comment:

I have always believed that speaking out something is the best way to rid the heaviness within. And when one doesn't have a confidant close by, what better way than writing it all out..? (Publishing the same is up to the person, though.) And for all you know, sometimes, even talking it out doesn't help!

Lastly, some words for our readers and the blogging community:

Thank you, Tushar - you have shown a lot of patience in waiting for my response! Well, what can I say..?

We have one Earth. Make it "ours".

Peace. Take care. Stay blessed.

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A wizard of words, I am sure you all shall agree.

Black Hat and White Hat techniques of SEO

People like controversy. Black Hat and White Hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques controversy has endured since SEO arose as a feasible method for establishing a Web site in the late 1990s. Each proposes a different gate to make a Web Site as effective as possible for high rankings in search engines. Both techniques do work in diverse ways. The White Hat techniques spots on using clean code and accomplished optimization method, while avoiding all issues that could generate in a forfeit from a search engine. White Hat SEO techniques are not associated with many risks, because the White Hat method aspires to follow the rules to avoid forfeit or penalty situations. Penalties are generally placed on Web sites for a wide range of violations. The consequences of many penalties are reduced rank positions for a site. Forfeit for blatant violations may cause in site ban, which is the removal completion of a site from a database of search engine. You run to lose about 50% of the traffic to your site from Google and affiliated search engines if your Web site is banned from a major search engine like Google. The main search engines never inform a site owner about a forfeit decision and only infrequently admit a penalty when contacted. During the penalty situation, a Web site can survive for years in a low ranking position. Once a penalty situation has been revealed and improved, a Web site usually gains higher ranking position. Therefore, White Hat SEO seeks to detect, correct and prevent all situations that have the potential for generating a penalty. The Black Hat techniques to SEO spots on doing whatever it takes to reach a higher ranking position. This commonly means a willing disregard for search engine rules in order to achieve a benefit over other sites ranked for the same keywords. Black Hat method are identical to search engine spam, which is primarily any method indicated to artificially raise a site's rankings and particularly prohibited in the search engine guidelines. The Black Hat techniques can be defined as fraught with risk because of its intentional or unintentional dismissal for the rules as set by the main search engines. Black Hat SEO techniques may deliver result fast. However, due to the unessential nature of the domains, the effects are usually short term - though they can be long term. White Hat SEO techniques usually take some time to accomplish but their results tend to last for a long time. At the end, “Which method works better and longer?" Both techniques can generate benefit, but because the White Hat method focuses on avoiding risk, the chances for long-term success are lucrative. This method seeks to deliver search engines what they desire, which is determined informational content and clean code, while withdrawing anything that search engines have chosen to penalize. Black Hat techniques also work and sometimes gain very good short-term benefit. But these techniques violate search engine guidelines, the risk of a forfeit or a final removal from a search engine database is very crucial. Black Hat SEO techniques only work until you get caught. At that moment you may see all of your endeavor and marketing portfolio flushed away.

Search Engine Marketing

In today’s world, search engine marketing is main activity related with goods promotion and advertisement and also products online. With most Internet browsers these directories have become very essential marketing tools. Millions of consumers count upon the order of listings on a search engines first two pages to locate a website that will give them pertinent information. Search engine marketing is defined as the process of making a web page or site score well in the rankings of search engine. Search engines can deliver a noteworthy amount of pre-qualified and highly desired traffic to your web site, if your site is rightly optimized.

Search engine marketing consists of three important fields. They are appropriate web site optimization, submission to the varied search engines, and maintenance.

Search engines appropriate optimization means the process of determine desired keyword phrases associated with a site, and assuring that the site places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search. So your site should have website content about the main topic of your site instead of something that's totally unrelated. While search engines able to add web sites with graphics, Java applets, flash, and other multimedia, they are unable to index the content conducted in those popular applications. Your site will never obtain those desired high search engine rankings. Without textual content on your web site,

Once your web site is appropriately optimized for the search engines with the relevant search phrases, your must submit your web site to those search engines. Possibly, website won't achieve high rankings in a search engine if it has never been submitted to the search engines. Search engines sometime send out automated programs, called “spiders” which use the web’s hyperlink pattern to “crawl” its pages. Large web sites get listed that were never submitted to the engine intentionally.

The search engines must be monitored to make sure that the site gets added to the search engines' databases, and to find out the ranking of the web site. For varied reason, monitoring is necessary. For example sometime a website does not add to the search engine. If it’s happens, the site must be resubmitted.

Search engine marketing is an ongoing process. Rankings can change from month to month, and that's why maintenance and monitoring needed, periodic verification and resubmission included as part of your search engine marketing program.

Once and for all, you can not start, stop, and restart search engine marketing as your cash flow goes up and down. If you are hiring a search engine marketing company, once you stop paying for their services, they halt all service aspects. No more tracking the rankings. No more submissions. No more pages adjusted to get higher rankings. Your pages start to fall in rank if that happens.

The corresponding and traffic sales won't happen in a single night. Search engine marketing usually takes several months to a year before you see lucrative results and it may costly. If search engine marketing done correctly, it can deliver you highly targeted, pre-qualified visitors who are looking for what you have to sell them. That frequently transform into sales and contented customers, as long as you stick with the program for the long period of time.

ETHINIC INTIMIDATION-THE GREAT DIVIDE

today before applying for a job, a seat in an educational institution, membership of a house or a chair of responsibility almost everywhere in the world we are expected to pass a litmus test to determine which side of the great divide we fall on-a black? Or a white?

Recent headlines such as

"RACIST STATEMENTS HURLED AT SHILPA SHETTY AT A REALITY SHOW"

"FEAR AND LOATHING AT MELBOURNE"



Prove beyond the extent of any doubt that the global human family is presently facing "racist intimidation”. And it’s not just the recent times where we find traces of such dogmatism. Perhaps even sir Edward VII (1841-1910) were deeply agonized by this detriment when he said-

"Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute."

Thus when we don’t care to deal positively or take fruitful steps to curb racism, only serves as a negative stereotype which is eventually transferred from generation to generation...and thus, the process of growth of racist feelings never cease to exist.

Unfamiliarity to a particular race accounts for yet another reason for the presence and growth of racial intimidation. People fear what they do not know or understand. Human psychology tends to treat strange people or objects as a negative presage to their being. This creates hostile or combative feelings.

The fear of intrusion of the others race in one’s own race also tends to give birth to bellicose responsiveness.

apart from taking steps at world level like THE RACE QUESTION and CRITICISM OF THE HOLOCAUST, we should tame ethnic intimidation by acting as responsible citizens of the human soceity.we should teach our young ones that a person is a Caucasoid or a mongoloid only because of their geographical surroundings and that the ethnicity doesn’t decide a person’s worth or credit.


- Ankeita Bharadwaj.

Blogger Interview # 4 Gauri Mathur

Gauri Mathur is a friend and an avid blogger who entered late into the blogging world, but neverthless has rocked it, with her astounding personality and mystic nature. No wonder, her blog is named Unpredictable Life. Some questions she answered for us :-

1) You are into active blogging today ad blogging is said to be a virtual version of a personal diary. Did you ever maintain a personal diary? Tell us something about it and differences between the two:

It’s absolutely right that blogging today has become the virtual version of personal diary. I myself have maintained it and I guess maximum number of people do. Maintaining a diary is always very integral part of someone’s life. Whatever secrets are written it’s totally between the writer and the diary but ones it is showcased as blogging its no longer can be termed as Integral because it becomes very public. Then there is another variation between the diary writing and blogging. When ever we write a diary, we write with the flow, it hardly matters that what we writing, and how’s the way it is coming out. We are totally venting out our thoughts, emotions. But in Blogging, a person becomes very conscious and cautious. S/he has to take care of all the details, has to concentrate on its fluency, its presentation, etc. It becomes more of commercial rather than personal (till the time its not been privatized).



2) Some words about your blog/ blogs.

I became a blogger in 2007, though I was partially active but that was the initial year when I got into it. Then in 2008, august, I made my personal blog which I named as Unpredictable Life (gmathur.blogspot.com) and from that time I am an active blogger. All the credit goes to a very dear friend of mine in whose influence I entered this blogging world. And now very proudly I can say that I successfully able to make a name in blogging world though not a high profile name but surely of my satisfaction.



3) Blogging as a medium is often used for venting out ire, grudges, narration of love and heart breaks and sad romantic tales. comment.

Its quite justified, venting ones emotions in the blog. As now day’s blogging is considered the other version of personal diaries. People are free to make use of this platform in any ways. Some use it personally, some use it professionally.



4) Tell us, generally, what kind of role does aesthetics play in blogging. Does the presentation of a blog matter a lot?

presentation means a lot in the blogging world as it adds to Blogger/s interest by increasing the readership.



5) Any plans or wishes to own a personal website one day?

No plans, yet.



6) Your favorites:

Blog: There are many blogs which I generally read, in fact whenever I get time to go through blogs I go through them. So I guess naming a few here will be acting like bit partial with them. Therefore, mentioning none.

Blogger:As I said that there are many blogs I go through, and there are many bloggers I love to read. Mentioning handful of name will not be a right job to do.

Blogging platform (blogger/wordpress/etc): Blogger, anytime.



7) Something which you always wanted to do/write on your blog and never did or wish to do on a later date :

Till date there is nothing like which I wished to post and couldn’t post. I am a very random, spontaneous person write whatever feels like. I write for myself and that is what I like about me. It doesn’t stop me of writing things. I write whatever I feel like.



8) Describe a positive and a negative change blogging brought into your life.

Am naturally inexpressive person and blogging has helped me to express myself more, it has also given me a habit of writing consistently and also enhanced my creativity. In fact it teaches a sense of responsibility.

There is no such negative thing I ponder about blogging, because till date I have experienced nothing negative about it.



9) An ideal blog according to you would be?

According to me ideal blog is a blog, which connects with the readers. This is the primary aspect of the ideal blog. Then secondary aspects can include: presentation, fluency, consistency etc



10) Some words for our readers please:

There is only one thing I would like to share it with my readers, i.e. Blogging is the very good medium of communication, Learning and knowing oneself and venting out ones hidden emotions without any fear. It helps ones to get rid of various inferiority complexes, insecurities and boosts ones confidence level.

Search engine optimization

Improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engine through natural search results is known as Search engine optimization. The more will be the visitors the more it will appear in the search result. These search includes; local search, mage search and industry specific vertical search engines. This is basically design to give web presence to any web site.

The strategy of Internet marketing, all considerations are taken by SEO about what people search and how they search. Editing its content and HTML are the basic functions of optimizing a website. It results in increasing the importance of special keywords and also remove unwanted indexing activities.

Sometimes SEO also refers to search engine optimizers. It has been invented by consultants who work on optimization projects for the clients and also for the people who do this job sitting at homes. SEO provide with the facility of broader marketing campaign. It is because of effectual SEO, which may need some changes to the HTML codes of a site. It is also sometimes slot in to the design and development of the website. The search is also used to make web site designs, content management systems, shopping carts, menus, which are easy to optimize.

Black Hat or SEO or spamdexing are the methods which are used in various links farms and Keyword stuffing that makes the user experience and the importance of search engines inferior. SEO generally looks for those sites which put these techniques in order to flash off these barriers.

Blogger Interview # 3 Shruti Singh

I speak of days, perhaps around a year back, when I had first found Blogger Shruti's blog The Track I Am on which is now termed as Lithium, after the name of the blogger's favorite song.
But the name may have been changed, the essence, the darkness the beauty of it, remains intact even till this day. I had written a review on the blog as well, and its available here at Orangy at this address.

Let's run through the interview now:

1) Tell our readers a bit about yourself.

I'm presently in class 12. A hard core Evanescence fan, I can do almost anything to attend their concert. Writing has been my companion since I entered my teenage. I started off as a really bad writer (trust me on this one). But with time, experiences and exposure I have grown. I like being effervescent most of the times. And I hate myself when I go through the writer's block!

2) Some words about your blog/ blogs.

My blog is my baby and I'm not ashamed to use this word for it. It is my part. My everything. Because the things I'm never able to speak out, I convey them through my blog. It is simply my reflection... the work on my blog is a true copy of me on the inside!

3) How much time has it been for you in the blog world.

I made my first blog when I was 14. But I was never regular. It was in class 10 that I actually started blogging seriously and made the blog world my second home.

4) Your definition of blogging would be:

Freedom of expression in true sense. To me, a person's blog speaks volumes about his/her personality. Blogging gives me that freedom to write what I feel, without anyone's influence. It has given me that confidence which I lacked and it cannot be explained in words! Blogging to me is an exposure to the unlimited talent and honesty and sincerity with which people dedicate themselves to their inner selves.

Every blogger has his/her story, what is yours?

Uhun.. the best question. In class 10, I made my present blog. It was during my board exams that I wrote this article. I was extremely low because of the situations at home. I wrote it to let it all out of me. And then I got comments. I was encouraged. I posted again... this time.. a more serious issue of drunk driving. I received positive comments again. So I thought that I should actually discover myself as a writer. And here I am... giving interviews for blogs (:

An ideal blog according to you would be?

The one which has personal experiences carved beautifully in words which weave a great story. And also.. I love versatility. The more variety I see in a blog, the more I love it (:

Tell us, generally, what kind of role does aesthetics play in blogging.
Does the presentation of a blog matter a lot?

Presentation of a blog does matter. But not "that" much. Initially, it is required to gain some attention of the fellow bloggers (this is what i have felt). But then if the content is not appealing, no one would like to visit the blog.. let alone read it. What's important is the thing which lies on the inside and not on the outside.

Your favorites :
blog:
blogger:
blogging platform (blogger/wordpress/etc):

I haven't explored any other platforms except Blogger. So I'm all for Blogger! Go Blogger!!

Any plans or wishes to own a personal website one day?

Oh.. I'm so not that "website" person. When it comes to cumbersome and technical things I'm always on the back seat. It takes hell lot of courage for me to change even my blog template. So.. not really!! I don't plan to own a website! I'm happier with this little space I have.

Lastly, a message you got to relay to all the blogger beings and our
patrons out here:

Write and write good. No matter what your forte is, you should always explore other styles as well. And for me, it is always important that whatever I am reading, I should be able to relate to it. Which, I understand, doesn't always happen. But all I want to tell all my blogger mates is that a pen and a paper has the power to make a difference... Really! I write, to feel better, to share my views, and also because I want to tell all my readers that being a dark writer is not always negative (:

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A good point made their at the end. I loved this interview, hope you too enjoyed it. Gauri Mathur's interview comes next on the series.

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Some Changes to the blog

Dates can now be seen with the post and a list of authors has been added.

All writers should note that, they cannot publish any content they submitted to Orangy, anywhere else. We hire you for the exclusivity of your works.

If it interests anyone, our writing team alone consists of 9 people and I am not including my name here.

2,605,613 is our world ranking today. Good work people.

The Blog Koraa KaaGaz was started in 2005 and became inactive in the year 2008.
Nevertheless, you can check out the archives and look more around it.

Careers @ Orangy

I am glad to announce to all
3,001,328 is our world ranking. Actually it is not very very reliable like most of the rankings, but still we are sticking to certain parameters.

For those who wish to study deep into how we know of our rankings and rankings in general

Alexa.com is the site. It is highly reputable and well respected in the business.

News to share with everyone is about our new site, to be completely dedicated to building careers at Orangy. Details shall be shared their and this way I can focus more on human resource efforts of the company.
Shreya Bajpai is perhaps the youngest member of our team and she shall write on teen.orangy.in
We shall try to have the best of her talents on the site. Best wishes to her and all of you welcome her aboard.

Blogger Interview # 2 Pankhuri Aggarwal

ast week, blogger Netika told us about her distaste of dark blogs and this week we are going to talk about one such blog, that has turned dark, recently. So, today once again from New Delhi (Yeah, the city does have some amazing bunch of bloggers), we have Pankhuri Aggarwal, answering our questions, with a lot of bias towards Orangy.in (I had to say that).
Actualy, her amazing work on creativity explored, is appreciated quite well with the word of mouth publicity doing everything for it.

Here are her answers to our questions. Read on:

1) Tell us, generally, what kind of role does aesthetics play in blogging. Does the presentation of a blog matter a lot?

Yes,why not. I think aeshetics and content both play an equal and a very important role in blogging. A person might prefer to read a blog whos well presented rather than the one which is not done so whole-heartedly or say enthusiastically. Plus I always believe that presentation comes first, because it enhances the contents, appeals the reader and it is surely one of the best ways in which someone can express himself/herself.

2) Your favorites :
blog: Lithium(Shruti), My musings(Tushar)
blogger: Tushar, Deluded, Shruti
blogging platform (blogger/wordpress/etc) blogger

3) Does the idea of making a book out of your blog appeals you?

The ideal appeals till the time their might be people willing to read me...or say my book. I honestly would love to even cater one reader with my book who atleast makes an effort to understand my feelings and gets successful in doing so. Because at the end what matters is the connection in between the two. If you cant see anything from the writer's eyes, and not relate with him at every word; theres no point in making a castle of sand near the high and strong wavy area. One day it will not only break but also will let down many's expectations.

4) Some words for our blog buddies and visitors

I guess joining with orangy was one of the very rare oppurtunities which came through my way.Its seems great to work together with such potentious writers, whereby you not only learn something new at every step, but also make new long lasting friends :-))

I would encourage you to join Orangy, it has many many sub domains...whos number is also likely to rise up immensely in the future, thereby letting one work for the cause he/she likes the most :-))

5) Some words about your blog/ blogs.

My blog Creativity Explored owes it origin to someone special who encouraged me at the right step to scatter my views, my thoughts, my feelings in this blogger world. Thats why I always follow the policy of having a mentor standing right next to you, every time you take a decision, every time you are in a problem, every time you are happy and any time when you are sad :-)) You never know...where this mentor might fly you one day :-))

My blog contains say aproximately 25% of my feelings, thoughts etc; the rest being there in my heart :-)) The reason it is 25% is that the other 75% will come by the reader's connection I just talked about :-)) He relating up with my text(say 25%), his input in my posts in terms of his ideas, solutions etc(25% again), his level understanding me and peeping in my heart for the rest of the thoughts(another 25%)

Ho gaya na 100 :-))

6) Blogging as a medium is often used for venting out ire, grudges, narration of love and heart breaks and sad romantic tales. comment.

Yes, very much true. Mainly a person blogs about those things which are either in his/her heart sponged somewhere or he wishes to convey a message to millions/someone special. Since we all are brought up at a place where its kinda tough to convey your feelings,thoughts,ideas to many directly; its then that, blogging for such reasons comes into play.And of course all these topics which you talked about play an important role in a person's life (be it old or young)..people are bound to use blogging for this only :-)) And I see no harm in this :-))
Infact its much much better than writing a personal diary, because here in blogging many more people try reading you :-)) rather than you being shut in the nut shell :-))

So endlessly blog !!!

and roll on!!!!

7) Your definition of blogging would be:

Blogging can be described in many ways...for me blogging is life..a life which is filled with wonderful hues and emotions which reflect time to time phrases in ones life. I have gained so much from blogging that its kinda tough to write all..plus I guess Im already sounding over philosphical in my talks :D :D trust me Im not like this :D so I am just trying to shut me mouth wherever possible :D :D

8) Are you part of any group blog? Tell us about your opinion on group blogs:

Yes..Jagruti is one of well known group blogs concerning social issues which gave me an oppurtunity to show my concerns for the same as well :-)) Which is though now added under the branch of orangy..but can be surely grouped under the category of group blogs :-))

Ummm...Orangy is another :-)) Yes, it is a group blog too :-))

The idea of group blog appeals to me anyday :-)) thats because as I had earlier pointed out...one does not only get to learn new things but also gets an explosure in life which anyday will help him/her in his/her future. Plus one gets long lasting friends of course :-))

9) Something which you always wanted to do/write on your blog and never did or wish to do on a later date

I always wanted to write my deep feelings for many people in the past and in the recent past and in the present as well..but it just never happened..the reason to this was some of the readers which belonged to my routine life as well..and it wouldnt have had gelled with them...there are somethings that should remain in the heart only :-))

Plus many more posts of mine are just kept in the drafts folder because me being very moody if sits to write something in a certain mood...sometime something such happens which turns my mood the other way and then that post just remains the way is was..


10) Every blogger has his/her story, what is yours?

Ummmmm..My story...my story can be placed as follows :

" An unknown girl looking for her unknown destiny with her small little unknown efforts along with the help of her unknown friends and well-wishers...and of course this unknown suspicious story has appealed many unknown readers till date :D :D and is likely to do much better in the future :-)))"

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Phewww!!! Long but interesting and candid answers here. Next week, same place, we going to bring in blogger Shruti Singh here for a candid interview. Stay tuned and keep commenting.
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COMMIT-SHOULD I??

Ever heard or read Anita Broker’s (women writer's talk: 1989 fame) view on love? She says

"real love is a pilgrimage. it happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists''

And that is what happens today.right? Can you think of marrying a guy who is not well-settled? Or is not from a good family? Or who at least doesn’t look average? For guys out there...how about getting married to a girl who makes sow dung cakes in the name of chapatis? Who looks as if she has just returned from a date with a hurricane? Or whom we see opening her mouth only to hear “myself anu ji...I do house wife?":-)
Many of us who are either students or who work in offices date guys or girls around us, a colleague, a classmate, a senior. boss, friend's friend, friend’s brother or sister etc.but few of us real take that dating seriously have many friends who are in a relationship. But very few of them talk about marriage. They say...We are not sure. Yet they date. Why??I asked a friend of mine...a guy...he sighed and said...”I date because I like her...she is presentable...and witty and fun too. “Then why not marry her?"Because I don’t know how she would turn out as a woman. You know it’s all situational. If at the time I am about to marry I find her perfect for it...I would proceed.otherwise, we both understand."I was shell-shocked!!I took love the other way round. As a sentimental, closely-knit bond where you accepted all goods and all the bad in your partner.i thought (like many of us still do) that love was anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation and exponent of breath. But is it really so today find it more of an arrangement. A deal. Emotions subtracted.

- Ankeita Bharadraj.

Jagruti completes a year

One year completed for Jagruti and I wrote this post there yesterday.

176,900 is our ranking for traffic, not for the world but just India.

http://firstrain.blogspot.com/ this blog has been updated very regulalry, from 2004 onwards
A must read for all of you out here.

A New Teen Kid on the team

Hey people. Welcome Shruti. She is going to help us all with writing content, especially on the teen website though I wish, given her excellent abilities that she helps me on other sites on well. Let's see how things work.

6,281,091 is the traffic rank today. It's raining hard and all the windows and doors banging at 3.20 a.m. in the morning make me uncomfortable. So rest of the chatting tomorrow.

His blogger profile lists him as a journalist and his blog happens to be a good read if you wish to learn means and ways of simplistic yet powerful blogging.
So my recommendation for all today is Jabberwock, which can be reached thus:
http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/