Category Archives: Personal

A Quieter Mind

This blog has been so neglected that I am not even sure if any­one will read this post.
Six months have elapsed since I wrote about the chal­lenges for 2010. It is painfully obvi­ous that blog­ging is tak­ing a back seat to social net­work­ing. How­ever, that is not the com­plete story.
Time and again, I have men­tioned that for

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

A Personal Milestone

I am now an edi­tor at Tech­meme.
Some online friends con­nected with me on social net­works like Twit­ter and Face­book already know this, but I was wait­ing for an offi­cial announce­ment before I wrote about it here. You can also read TechCrunch’s cov­er­age here.
If you’re not in the tech field, you’ve prob­a­bly not heard of

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

My Online Social Map

This is a visu­al­iza­tion of my online social life. Click on the image to visit it online, from where you can directly jump and con­nect to any of my online pro­files. Read the description below.

The Ecosys­tem
This is not at all as com­pli­cated as it might first appear. The red lines are my man­ual activ­i­ties, blue lines

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