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Computing, Libraries, Tennis, India & other interests of Vikas Kamat
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| A Blog on Photo Blogs
The Aperture Photo Blog at Kamat.com is quite a hit with photo-blog enthusiasts. It does help that it's the top match in Google for its keywords. However, it is less of a blog on photography, and more of a blog on subjects of photography. The newest entry, for example, shows use of photographs to study the cultural anthropology of India. 220, 221. Whatever it takes
I am listing below what is required of a good software so that people can publish "push-button" photo-blogs.
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BTW, until last week, I didn't quite get the meaning of "MovableType". I had thought that it has something to do with fonts, type, and stuff. Then it occurred to me that movable-type would be the opposite of "stereo-type", which I thought is way cool. No?
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| Making Money from Blogs | | ||
| Making Money from Blogs I am now one of the few bloggers who has made money from his blog. The money is not for the contents of the blog, but for the software that is used to create the blog. The engine that powers this blog and my mother's blog is being deployed as a knowledge management tool for intranets and extranets. I commend this customer for seeing the opportunity to use blogs as a knowledge percolation tool, and a rapid response tool. I was specifically asked to make these changes to my blogging engine to be able to deploy in a corporate environment:
If your company needs Blog Server Software, contact me at
Features of Kamat Blogging Engine
Read my article The Anatomy of a Blogging Engine if you need a Unix based solution. Our blogs are produced with Microsoft technologies, and served by Unix!
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| Social Reform via Blogs | | ||
| Reforming Society through Blogs Yesterday, in her blog, my mother silently busted an age-old, dark myth of India that had denied the women the use of a sacred Hindu hymn. The myth has to do with this five thousand year old mystical, powerful hymn from ancient India called the Gayatri mantra. The hymn is always taught in secret, mostly from father to his son, and never to a woman, or to a person considered to be of "low birth". I am not going to get into the magical, and divine prowess of the hymn, but you can read and recite it on her blog. I bet that most of those who chant the Gayatri mantra everyday, don't even know its meaning, and will frown upon its use in a blog. Of course, those who are sane amongst us will appreciate the succinct beauty of the hymn, and the spiritual maturity of the Indians five thousand years ago. Those reformists amongst us will admire the genius of Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883), in using this hymn to herald a social movement in India.
Like most people who read their personal email at work, I have turned of viewing of embedded images in email messages so as to not accidentally get into trouble. In fact, I have set up a message rule that flags such messages as risky-messages. This morning I think Yahoo decided to insert rich text advertisements (you know one with pictures and animation) in the email messages people send via Yahoo mail, and a bunch of my emails were hence flagged. Not a good development. If Yahoo! wants to charge its users, or show advertisements to its users, I have no problem, it is indeed their business. But as a recipient of an email message, I am under no obligation to view the advertisement, and my Inbox rule stays.
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| What is an AutoBLOG? | | ||
| What is an AutoBLOG? An AutoBlog is a manufactured weblog. Like other manufactured goods, AutoBlogs reduce errors, increase productivity, and ensure the quality of the output. AutoBlogs reduce reliance on people, can be cheaply mass-produced, and consumers love them (?).
It was bound to happen. Announcing Kamat AutoBlog for today or anyday.
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| Blogger's Block | | ||
| Blogger's Block I hereby disclose where I get ideas for my blogs; includes tips to overcome what I call Blogger's Block. Of course, many many ideas come from readers of this site (readership for March 2002: Million and a half), and I encourage you to suggest (
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| Sins of Bloggers | | ||
Sins of Bloggers
Reminder: I am a blogger. What bloggers write, and what they really mean by David Weinberger.
Living in America Purifies Your Blood Unlike the last time, American Red Cross accepted my blood today.
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| Blog Analogies | | ||
| While the luminaries are engaged in defining what are Weblogs, I want to
provide a context/horizon for the weblogs, and compare them to analogous entities I know. Weblogs and Karaoke The Karaoke (Japanese slang for bogus orchestra) system let people behave like rock stars and fulfill their secret dreams of stardom. Weblogs have done the same for the people who dreamt of becoming great writers. Blogger and TeX When Donald Knuth wrote the revolutionary software TeX, he wanted to cut the middlemen (typesetters, copy editors, proof readers) and let authors directly communicate with their readers. TeX (and later LaTeX) transformed the publishing industry. Since Pyra created Blogger, it has had the same profound impact on web publishing as TeX did on traditional publishing. The idea is still the same -- no barriers between the writer and the reader, with the former assuming all the intermediately roles (producer, publisher, editor etc.) Amway and Weblogs One of the most important ideas of MLM that Amway propagates is that every distributor is also a consumer. This is especially applicable to webloggers who not only write, but read other weblogs faithfully. Weblogs and Communities of Practice Consider the research publications industry. Who but another heart surgeon reads The Journal of Congestive Heart Failure and Circulatory Support? Who but another heart specialist can contribute to this publication ? and finally, who do you think buys this periodical? Weblogs provide a great way for like-minded people to work together. While creating a Scholar Exchange to facilitate peer-review, criticism, and publication of research papers seems logical -- it would eliminate the middlemen completely, IMO in the long run it would work against the goals of the community. This is party because this idea is pitted against the capitalist fundametals of our society ("How will I make money?"), and because automated exchanges are no replacements for the rigorous peer-review process the prestigious publications use to select the articles. I still believe that the idea of Scholar Exchange (called Communities of Practice in the industry), has a role to play in the coming years. Big publishers like Elsevier, Kluwer, and Blackwell are especially positioned well to exploit these Scholar Exchanges, but so far have shown no leadership.
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