Category Archives: blogging

Blogging Highlights of 2009, Challenges & Thoughts for 2010

This is a good time to look at the high­lights of 2009, and share some thoughts about the future.
High­lights Of 2009
This has been a busy year. 75 posts on An Unquiet Mind in 2009 with about 1,500 com­ments! 46 posts at MakeUseOf.com and 30 on my newly started tech blog, Skep­tic Geek, both of which involve

Welcome to the Skeptic Geek!

this is the new home for An unquiet mind.
I have taken the plunge and decided to host my own blogs. My web pres­ence will hence­forth be at this new domain, where I am plan­ning to main­tain two sep­a­rate blogs.
I was look­ing to con­sol­i­date my geek blog with my per­sonal blog. I spent a lot of time

An Unquiet Mind of A Social Geek

Take a look at these numbers:

This is my 267th post.
There are 2962 authen­tic com­ments on this blog.
My posts have 203 tags in 39 cat­e­gories.
Total views crossed 100K quite a while back.

These num­bers usu­ally don’t mean much to me. But I always use a trick while climb­ing a moun­tain. When I am exhausted and feel like I can’t go

Out of Action for a while

Friends, thank you for vis­it­ing my blog and for your com­ments.
I met with an unfor­tu­nate acci­dent end of last week, and hence will be out of action for a cou­ple of weeks. Noth­ing seri­ous, but I need to rest and recover. Thanks for vis­it­ing. I will be back soon.

Posturing From My New Chair

After months of sit­ting on my com­puter on a back­less set­tee, I began to real­ize that my back has a spinal cord, and that it’s made up of indi­vid­ual ver­te­brae.
But that’s not what this is about. While my new chair does indeed improve my pos­ture, this is a new pos­tur­ing using Posterous.com.

My Online Social Map Visualization

A few weeks back, Hyper­Ac­tiveX asked me some­thing on Twit­ter.
“What is your data flow? Have you mapped it yet?” or some­thing to that effect. This had been on my mind for quite a few months and I always pushed it to the back burner. Quad­rant I vs. Quad­rant II. The usual story.
But his tweet pushed

Pune Blog Camp 2: Reflections

Many folks asked me for an update on Pune’s Blog Camp, after the pre­vi­ous photo-post. How was the expe­ri­ence? Was it worth it? Who was there?
Not being diplo­matic, I can say that the expe­ri­ence was an inter­est­ing one for me, with pos­i­tives and neg­a­tives. I had never been to any blog camp, bar camp, or Tweetup

Blog Camp Pune 2: Photo Post

Here are some pho­tographs I man­aged to click at Blog Camp Pune 2 when I could dis­en­gage myself from the talks. Snaps are hosted on Flickr, please click to get higher res­o­lu­tions. My thanks to all the ‘un’-organizers of the event for mak­ing this such a flaw­lessly smooth event!
 
 
 
 
 

Blog Updates Summary Post

In the past few months, there have been many updates to the blog that I would like to sum­ma­rize here.
Blog Updates
An Unquiet Mind, which got a tagline, has an updated About Myself page (again). The recent films series is now indexed in the Favorite Films A to Z page, which will also let you down­load or

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.
I have been cho­sen to con­tribute to MakeUseOf.com on a trial basis. I have loved MUO since a long