Writing for MakeUseOf.com

A lot of things have been happening at An Unquiet Mind. A journalist quoted me in the Hyderabad edition of The Hindu. AUM is now on Twitter here and you can see my tweets in the sidebar.

muologoI have been chosen to contribute to MakeUseOf.com on a trial basis. I have loved MUO since a long time, and I am eagerly looking forward to writing about “Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips”.

MakeUseOf.com has 54K+ subscribers, and is part of PC Magazine’s “Top 50 Blogs”.

This is my first foray into professional writing since 1996. Wish me luck! :-)

PS: Do you like the new About Myself?

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21 Comments

  • wow. best of luck. i’m sure you’d not need it, but it’s the least I could do.

  • Wow…this is great news! Con­grats, and good luck!

    The new ‘about me’ is very unique. It is a good idea, but maybe too abstract. Maybe you could also throw in some text to go with the cloud? Unless this is the amount of infor­ma­tion you want to share.

  • Saw your updates on twit­ter and checked your blog. Nice stuff dude. will make it a point to visit it regularly.

    Haven’t seen the old ‘About Myself’ but liked the new one.

    Con­grats on being quoted in the news paper.

    You should add MakeUseOf.com in your ‘Blogs I Read’ list ;)

  • महेंद्र, हार्दीक अभिनंदन! :-)

    I didn’t know MUO, nei­ther do I tweet, but I checked it out and I like it.

  • wish you all the luck Mahen­dra.
    am sure you are going to enjoy it as much as your read­ers do — go, ride

  • Best of luck :) Actu­ally I think your writ­ing could very well be fea­tured in most Indian news­pa­pers or mag­a­zines. I’d rec­om­mend Tehelka and Car­a­van, both of which seem to seek new and fresh writ­ers most of the time

  • Best of luck for your new innings! :)

  • Poonam, you are mis-spelling your own name? :-)

  • Best of luck Mahen­dra! I am not at all sur­prised you are on to this, as it seems just the thing you would do and I am sure you will do great! And you are on Twit­ter too! Looks like the whole world is on Twitter!

  • Thank you, Pooanam! :-)

  • So, as a national news­pa­per says, you write humor? And what is this AUM, and MUO, etc?
    Think­ing about it is giv­ing me PUS.
    (Pep­tic Ulcer Syndrome)

  • Oh, I get it now (tube­light switched on).…

  • […] daugh­ter & fam­ily, I switched gears to work­ing online. As most of my blog­ger friends know, I started writ­ing for MakeUseOf.com as a con­trib­u­tor, and am now a staff writer. I still needed addi­tional work to […]

  • :-) Thanks, asuph! Nice to see you here!

  • Thank you! Yes, let me start with this much level of sharing…maybe I can add more spe­cific clouds later? ;-)

  • Hey Anand, wel­come to my blog! Hope you do visit regularly.

    Oh no, MakeUseOf will be in a spe­cial cat­e­gory of its own! :-)

    And btw, sorry for not being able to chat — I was in the process of sign­ing off for the day. Hope to catch you online sometime.

  • प्रिय प्रियांक, धन्यवाद!

  • Thank You! :-)

  • OMG, His High­ness is here! :-) My grat­i­tude for your kind com­ments, and com­ing from you, they mean a lot!

    I’d never heard of Tehelka and Car­a­van news­pa­pers! Oh well, I’ve enough on my plate already, but thanks for the tip. BTW, what’re you doing at this hour com­ment­ing on oth­ers’ blogs?! Again, hon­ored to have you here, Sir.

  • Thank you, Nita! :-) I remem­ber you had encour­aged me to write more ‘how-to’ tech posts for non-techies, and this ven­ture is very much like that. So let’s see how it goes.

    I have fol­lowed twitter’s growth since the last two years, but kept away from it until now. Still learn­ing how to make it use­ful rather than annoying!

  • Doc, con­sider this to be the nerds’ response to all those med­ical acronyms that’ve been thrown to us ordi­nary cit­i­zens over the ages…MD(x), PH(x), and so on.…:-)