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After taking a break of almost 22 days, I am here again to one of my favorite online activities - blogging. As mentioned in my earlier post, I had taken a break to proceed on the holy pilgrimage of Shri Sai Baba at Shirdi, Maharashtra. It was a long cherished wish  of my wife ( who is a ferver devotee of Sai Baba) to take our one year old son to Shirdi for the blessing of baba. So We proceeded on 16th morning for Manmad (the near by Rly Station to Shirdi) and reach there on 17t morning. Apart for a darshan at Shirdi, we also visited Shani Singnapur, Nasik (Tryambkeswar & Panchwati), Aurangabad (Ellora and Ajanta). We caught the return train from Jalgaon on 21st and reach Delhi on 22nd. I shall soon write a detailed post of journey.

During these 22 days, many events of national importance happened. India won 3 Medals at the Olympic (which includes its first ever individual Gold Medal), Parvej Musshraff resigned from the post of President of Pakistan, the Northern part of Bihar witnessed one of the worst and savaged floods of India ever, the Government announced 6th Pay Commission for its millions of employees and India finally broke the nuclear aparthied and was entered into the group of Nuclear Supplier Clubs without signing CTBT ot NPT (a great achievment by any standards).

I would surely liked to blog on these interesting issues. However, owing to some very busy personal work, I could not start my blogging activities early. I hope to cover these topics in my subsequent posts.

I also got an invitation from Indiblogger.in for a blogger meet which was held in Delhi yesterday. Though initially I planned to go there to mingle with fellow Indian (and especially Delhi/NCR) bloggers, I could not find the time for this meeting. Probably next time, I will attend this meeting.

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As you can see this blog has very limited activities these days. I am facing time crunch that has almost crippled the availability of quality time . I am seriously thinking to try some sort of outsourcing to ease this time crunch. Meanwhile, I have also thought about the direction I should give to this blog. For this, I have decided to ask my readers what kind of topics they want to read on this blog? I can write on a number of topics such as technology, topics related to politics, economy, sports, society or movies etc.  I can also write exclusively on ‘make money online’ or tips for web designing, Search Engine Optimization, web site promotion, various web scripts , tips & tutorials for webmasters etc.

I request to kindly suggest me on which topic do you want me to write? Should I stick to one main topic or should I keep writing articles on as many diverse topics as possible. I think some suggestions from readers like you will help me decide the main theme of this blog on which I’ll write most.

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After I wrote my full RSS feed post where I explain why & how you can ensure a full RSS feed for your blog, one of my friend told me that despite installing the full text feed plugin, his blog is still getting truncated at the point where he used <!––more––> tag. I got confused as to why it was happening. One reason that I found that it may be due to a cache issue and probably it’ll take some time to be full reflected in the RSS reader. However, on checking with another RSS reader, I still found his feed truncated.

So I searched Google for an answer..and found it

It’s very simple.

Just go to the Reading Option of your wordpress blog and in the Syndication feed option, choose ‘full text’. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you are blogging, you must be aware of RSS. (If not read this). I have a list of my favorite blogs in my RSS reader and I read them regularly. However, it is a little annoying to see that many bloggers (probably unknowingly) allow only partial feed of their blog post in RSS reader. Though their main intention is to prompt the reader to actually visit their blogs (for seeing advertisement or whatever reason), it acts as a big turn off.

Take my case itself. Owing to lack of time, it is not possible for me to visit each of my favorite blogs separately in my browser. I prefer to read them in my reader so that I can go through them quickly and grasp all the relevant posts.

Man do I read them? No. I don’t read any post from start to finish unless of course it has some exceptionally unique content. I just scan most of the posts quickly to have a general idea of what is being written in these blogs. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you have spent some time on Internet you must have heard about this three letters word : RSS. If you already don’t know about this useful tool for efficiently browsing the web, here is a simple introductory article which will explain everything you need to know about RSS .

OK let’s start !

What is RSS anyway ?

RSS is an acronym for : Really Simple Syndication

It is also known as : Rich Site Summary

Some people also called it : Really Simple Subscribing.

In simplest terms,

“RSS is a simple and efficient way to keep in touch with a website without actually visiting it “

Yes. To keep in touch without actually visiting !

Now what does that mean ?

Let us understand it by an example. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hi friends,

You must have noticed that site has changed and except for basic theme, all the designing & images have disappeared. Actually  I am in the process of shifting my blog to a new host. All the files will be restored soon.

Till then kindly cooperate

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Well I am not getting much time to read something offline. A busy full time job and evening commitment with my little son leave me almost no time for reading. However, I have recently build a new folder in my Google reader where I have collected blogfeeds of those people who are making/plan to make their living by working online. These bloggers are a very interesting lot. Some of them are veteran and have become quite an expert in earning online, some are in the intermediate stage and some are just beginners. It will be interesting to watch how these people perform in 2008 in their field of interest which is ‘Making money online’.

Some of the most impressive are :

Ruck from Cash Tactics :This guy is awesome. He writes to the point and has a blunt and straightforward approach. His ideas and strategies just blow the mind away. In the opinion of many (including myself) his blog will become a huge hit in the days to come owing to his no-nonsense style of writing and his in depth knowledge & expertize in the field on ‘online money making’. If you are interested in making real money online, look no further. Subscribe to his feed. Read the rest of this entry »

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For all of you who want to use the power of video marketing to promote your blog/website here is an excellent free ebook written by a Youtube expert.

This ebook is written by Kevin Nalts who is one of the most-viewed YouTube comedians with nearly 600 online videos seen more than 25 million times. This is a 30 page pdf ebook which gives you some excellent tip on Youtube marketing.

Download the ebook here :

How to become popular on Youtube without any talent

I hope you’ll like the ebook. Send me your comments.

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One of the most annoying disadvantage of blogging is that as you keep posting new posts some of the most useful and popular posts get buried in the archive . Except regular readers, it is almost impossible for new visitors to know about your best blog post. Since not many people are keen to search for the best content of a blog, unless we don’t make some effort to showcase our best blog posts on the front page itself , it would be almost impossible to let new visitors know about those post. This, in my opinion, is a very bad usability aspect of a blog style site.

One of the alternative to overcome this is to use the plugin ‘Popularity Contest’ which display a list of most popular posts of our blog in the sidebar. This, though helps a bit, is not the best possible solution as the popularity of a blog post is dependent upon many factors beyond our control. From my own experience, I can say that this is not the best choice to showcase our best posts.

Second alternative is to use another plugin ‘Recommend It’ which allows your blog’s veteran readers to recommend posts to first time visitors through a simple voting system. It is being used very successfully on it’s main site here

However, the best alternative in my opinion is to build your blog like a static site where all the best popular posts find a permanent place in the sidebar. I recently came across a blogger (Caroline Middlebrook) who has written a wonderful free ebook on this subject. The name of this ebook is How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress.

I read this ebook and I must admit it is a very easy to understand & effective book that explains the process of building niche sites using wordpress. Using the simple tutorial given in this ebook anybody can increase the usability aspect of his blog. If you want to make your blog easily accessible to new readers, you must read this ebook.

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So what I would do in that case ?

The world is changing very fast. Everyday millions of people are pouring new contents on the web. I feel a little disappointed for not being one of them and not following by blogging routine regularly. It has happened because I am not getting any time for blogging these days. So here is a list of some topics on which I would love to blog if I had the time in my favor :

(1) Benazir Bhutto Assassination : In my opinion, she was the only leader capable of true democratic reforms in Pakistan. But alas ! She was killed in a brutal attack. Word’s most dangerous country has now become more dangerous after the death of Ms. Bhutto. May her soul rests in peace. Read the rest of this entry »

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