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Just saw the apple keynote of WWDC 2008. Steve Jobs talked about the new 3G iPhone and its superiority over the Edge network. The video about the speed comparison was interesting, Safari took 59 seconds to load nationalgeographics.com on Edge. Interestingly Opera browser on my Blackberry 8310 (Edge network) takes 25 seconds to load the same page!
The load time on 3G network for Safari was 21 seconds.
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It seems someone is playing with the site. All the URLs of tag pages have been left with only //
http://wordpress.com/tags//
instead of http://wordpress.com/tags/life/
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I hate plagiarism. I hate it when people don’t acknowledge the sources. I hate when people just copy paste stuff. I hate it more when they don’t respond to emails or comments. One guy called Murali Venkatesh stole 3 of my posts. He is actually using some RSS aggregator so accidentally he posted a posts of mine with pictures which I had hosted on my blog. Technorati detected it and hence I came to know about this dude. I left a comment on his blog but he deleted that. Here are those stolen posts
1. World Cup Cricket 2007 pictures
3. Abhishek Aishwarya wedding pictures
Not just my blog, but he seems to have copied content from other blogs also. His post Who is Sanjaya-Bye Sanjaya is directly copied from Mutiny (Actually there are a lot more from this blog). Another post is copied from TheBrain Chimney . He even plagiarized from Kartik’s blog. Here is one shamelessly taken from Silentbits. Well the list is endless and I wonder what actions could be taken against such plagiarism. I will report this to google adsense but I not exactly hopeful of a prompt response.
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Technorati is the best place to look for blogs. I am really impressed by their bot which is so quick in updating. I prefer using it over google search or wordpress.com tag browser.
I understand that its really difficult for a personal blog which is non-techie to make it to top 100 favourite and I am not even attempting that! I am happy with the readership I have but would love to get new readers who are interested in the stuff I write. The thing is that I offer full feed so no one bothers to come to the blog to read. Secondly I get more than 50% of my visitors from google so that means they are just one time visitors who would never come back again. So why not build some readership with the help of fellow bloggers.
I happen to visit Dosh Dosh for the first time when I saw the reference on Nirmal’s blog. I must say that I more than impressed by the quality of content on the blog (BTW my all time favourite happens to be Lorelle because of her lucid and attractive way of writing, aided with relevant pics ). Anyways, I think Dosh Dosh deserves to be in the top 100 and thus I fully support its scheme of favourite exchange.
Actually this scheme is much better than John Chow’s review thing in which he is the sole gainer.
I really don’t like to ask for links to specific content on this blog because I very much prefer natural citations and links from other websites.
This is probably why I have never and will never start a “Review my blog to get a linkback� gimmick, which mainly benefits the blog being reviewed. Reciprocal reviews are fine, but reviews for a simple link back is ineffectual and very one-sided.
The only reason why I am asking for a link to this post here is because I want this to be an interactive experiment where all of us can increase our Technorati favorites, not just Dosh Dosh alone.
By linking here, you’ll send your readers to participate in this experiment and when I link back to you, the readers of Dosh Dosh can visit your blog to trade favorites with you as well.
This is a targeted two-way arrangement and allows us to share traffic and readers with each other[Dosh Dosh]
Why don’t I also start this thing 
. You can add my blog in your Technorati favourite by clicking here. Drop in a comment so as to let me know and then I will do the same. I will then link to your post in which you have mentioned about this new exchange. To begin with I have added the following blogs to my favourite list.
I am an avid reader of blogs so you rest be assured that I will subscribe to your RSS feed and also be a regular visitor
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Blogging Toolkit is a set of tools and and softwares that a blogger uses to manage, publicize, monetize and optimize his blog. A blogging toolkit is needed by a blogger for generating traffic, gaining popularity and running a full featured blog.
Nirmal has tagged me to reveal my blogging toolkit and here I shall write about my blogging kit.
1. Blogging Platform
WordPress is my blogging platform. I shifted from blogger last August. WordPress has been amazing in terms of flexibility it has offered. Blogger stands no where in front of wordpress when it comes to themes, plugins and RSS feeds. The coolest thing about wordpress is the RSS feed. You can create RSS feeds for any category or even search terms
a. RSS feed for category satire of this blog- http://www.shaarique.com/category/satire/feed
RSS feed for search string doesn’t work on my blog because of feedburner replacement plugin. The usual feed address would be http://www.shaarique.com/feed/rss2/?s=wordpress for search string ‘wordpress’.
The search engine optimization is awesome in wordpress.
2. Blogging Client
I use Windows live writer. I am somehow not comfortable with the wordpress post editor. But after proxy authentication was introduced in our campus, which meant only IE and Firefox were granted permission to connect, I had to shift to the wordpress. The auto save feature is great. I have had lot of trouble with this editor as it used to mess my blog. Any open code would effect the whole page and its not possible to add HTML codes of videos directly here (which is possible in live writer). The editor is one thing I adored about blogger, it used to accept any damn HTML or javascript! Everything has its limitation :smile:
3. Statistics Software
Google Analytics and shortstats. Google analytics is great in terms of insight it offers of visitors, page views, time spent by each visitor, geographical location, goal conversion and much more. Shortstats offers a wide range of features like search string, referral, browser and country log.
4. Blog Promotion and Feeds
I use feedburner for the feed of this blog. Nothing much on the blog promotion part  :wink:
5. Browser
Firefox and IE 7. I love firefox but the memory leak problem is a big pain, which is surprisingly absent in IE 7.
6. Graphics and Images
Adobe photoshop, Microsoft paint (the coolest image editor software ever to be made) and coral Photo.
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