Why I love Blogging

The informal approach is what I love most about the blogs. The best thing about blogs, they just keep going - however, I know that I need to be consistent with writing - more frequent and regular write-ups would make this blog more attractive and will appease my hunger for knowledge...let's see...

By the way - My IndiRank went UP

IndiRank goes up: KBM Effect?

Got an email from Indiblogger.in; IndiRank of "Web Wings" has been updated – it has jumped to 79 from 57. Happy.

Is it an after-effect of Kolkata Blogger’s Meet 2009 (KBM ’09)? I was amazed to see the mybloglog stats of "Web Wings". It never received such a huge traffic in its entire life as it got during KBM ’09. It has 11 followers as well.

Adding the new IndiRank logo in the side bar. Let’s see what else is waiting for me in the coming days.

One Hindi Blog - Finally

Finally one partially Hindi Blog entered Kolkata Blogger's Meet. I mentioned in one of my previous posts about the lack of blogs in regional languages. Saurav Arya filled the gap :)

The Blogspot Magic

No, I will not change the template of this blog, neither will I host it somewhere else. Webwings is my first blog and I will keep its typical blog-like look intact, forever.

When I started my career in Online Marketing 4 years back, I knew nothing about blogging. It was blogger.com that fascinated me most. It’s true that all my hosted blogs use the WordPress blogging software. But I get the flavor of blogging more when I log on to blogger.com and the term ‘blogspot’ in the URL leaves a magical impact on me.

That is the reason, I will keep at least one of my blogs hosted with blogger.com forever and maintain its simple blog-like look.

Happy Blogging :)

Kolkata Bloggers’ Meet – What’s Next!

Boss, a lot of things can be done; mentioning few here, will keep you posted.

Green Blogging:

Let’s do something for this planet. Let’s start writing about the environment, climate changes, how to stop pollution, what measures should be taken to save this planet, how to protect animals and insects from extinction, importance of rain water harvesting in India, importance of alternative energy etc.

Once bloggers start doing this, let’s have another meet and decide how to implement the ideas. I am sure we will get a lot of people, activists and groups with us.

Banglar Mukh (The Face of Bengal):

We are going to celebrate Kolkata Bloggers’ Meet 2009, and there is not a single Bangla Blog! Are Kolkatans not blogging in Bengali?

Let’s popularize blogging in all regional languages – let’s convince writers and celebrities to have their blogs written in vernacular languages. There must be 100 Bengali Blogs in the Kolkata Bloggers’ Meet 2010 along with blogs written in other tongues.

Kids – Should they start blogging?

Organise a parent-teacher-educationalist meet and let’s have a debate.

More ideas will come in to my mind and I am sure about that. Keep watching.

I need a new mobile handset with Internet connectivity

I decided not to buy an advanced (read expensive) mobile handset. I thought I could manage with my simple Nokia 6600i. But I was wrong. I need a handset that would help me stay connected with my e-friends and would help me post in my blog when I travel :)

Since we shifted to the new office building, I am starting for office around 8:45 o'clock in the morning these days and not returning home before 9:30 p.m. When I get back I feel to go to bed right on. And the result is quite readable...just visit my blog archive. Even I feel bad to see so few posts in last couple of months.

So I need a mobile...I would be writing small posts when I sit idle and watch outside the bus lazily when I commute. I need a mobile handset with strong internet connectivity...can you suggest one?

I hibernate

Enough of running here and there; enough of future planning - now is the time to be calm and quiet and get energized for a busier life. These are the goals for next few months; perhaps next 1 year.

• Work for Kolkata Bloggers Meet - will write more about this later.
  
  
• Read varieties of books – get acquainted with different writing styles.
  
  
• Write on varieties of topics – apply different styles of writing.
  
  
• Blog vigorously – its important to boost my network, however, I doubt if I will get enough time to blog or not. Sagar (my duplicate) has started capturing the PC of late and he is not at all sparing me. Seems I need a laptop now.
  
  
• Don't think about a new job – job searching is hectic and it consumes lots of time, money and energy.
  
  
• Attend a course – a professional course on mass communication/journalism/technical writing/instructional designing - but only after March 2008.
  

My readers: please wish me luck so that I can stick to my plans.

E-Man to save Earth from Global Warming

Before it is too late, we need to be careful. The surface temperature is already up by a few degrees. Glaciers have started to melt. Unnatural amount of rainfall, devastating hurricanes are indicating that we have very short time in our hand. The only creature that can save OUR EARTH is E-Man!

Every year, lots and lots of TREES are killed for the sake of paper industry. And the process is accelerated during the festivals for the Greetings card industry. This is the time to get conscious. Paper is like a column of civilization. Eliminating the usage of papers seems impossible. However, we can stop wastage of paper from now on. And in the professional world, we can become paperless.

With latest technologies and developments, Paperless Office is no more difficult to set up. With applications like Google Apps, Microsoft Office, Emails, Messengers, BLOGS and many more to name, we can easily cut our Paper Usage Rate. And during the Festivals and on any other occasions we can send E-cards to our friends instead of a Greeting Card made of Paper.

There could be thousand other ways to protect Trees. This is just a thing that came in my mind on the occasion of Blog Action Day. I know that Paper Pulp is renewable material. Then why not from today onwards, we stop killing Trees for paper and start rotating the existing Paper pulp only. If there is any deficit, we have to compensate it from the solutions that I have mentioned above. No He-Man will fall from the sky to save us; it’s our responsibility to preserve our natural resources. So let’s be an E-Man and delay the process of Global Warming.

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Few hours with EMC at Hyatt

EMC Corporation conducted a seminar at Hyatt today. As we had got an invitation for the same; me and Sudipto took a day off from office and attended it. I reached Hyatt before Sudipto and it was raining at 9:50 am in Kolkata. As he expected to be late, he called me to tell ‘go ahead’.

The girl at the Registration Desk was very nice. She gave me a small kit with notepad, pen, some EMC brochures and some forms to fill up. The forms had lot of technical questions in it so I decided to wait for Sudipto as he knows our organization better.

Sudipto rushed to Hyatt Ballroom not more than 5 minutes later than I did. We started filling out the forms; but then someone told us to enter the room as the Welcome Note was about to start.

Mr. O. Rajesh presented the greeting messages. Some topics covered in the seminar are Storing More Intelligently, Backup Recovery and Archival, Compliance etc. I was looking for the Content Management session; however, the concerned person was not there so the session was dropped. We had a good lunch at Hyatt with lots of items that I could not even touch.

I learned a lot of thing today; though our company is not at the position to implement such Storage, Backup or Recovery system; but we may need such infrastructure in future. Moreover, EMC supplied lots of thing to think over. I really enjoyed the session conducted by Smartha Guha Thakurta; he is a brilliant guy and good speaker too. Thanks EMC for such an informative seminar.

Lets share the success

I am really thrilled that a site like SiteProNews has published my article. They were very much helpful from the beginning when I sent the first email to inquire if the topics of the articles are given by them or it's the writer's choice. They gave me a wide domain to write about. I did some research, prepared the articles and sent it and here comes the result. Thanks SiteProNews.

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Orkut becomes more communicative and participatory

Like Google, Orkut has updated itself a lot. With all the new features Orkut is now a great place to hang around. It has been translated in 5 regional languages of India, hence more Indians are likely to use Orkut.

Just few days back, when I needed to communicate with one of my acquaintances; I did not call him, nor did I send him email, I left scrap! Obviously, if I needed to say something personal, I would have dropped an email, however, Orkut is more personal and more friendly now. All the best to you Orkut.

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Micro-blogging

is a way of blogging that involves writing small posts (generally 200 characters) with a link back to original article sometimes, exactly like this one. Those who have thought that microblogging means writing on a microscopically small blog are wrong!

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My threads in WPW newsletter

I like to see my threads in WPW newsletter. I am deeply involved with WPW community nowadays and I am feeling an attachment with the members. I have always liked participating in forums and WPW is a great place to hang around.

Click the links below, browse the pages and you would find my pen name, saikatblogger, there.

• [WebProWorld] This stat function real or a scam?
• [WebProWorld] Impact on SEO .. yourname.domain.com

Also read my previous post Beating my own drum

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View Ads About

I have just noticed it right now in my other blog Web Bulletin. The Ad Units are displaying a text box and asking visitors about the topic of Ad. This is a feature visitors may take interest in and that would help AdSense publishers earn more revenue. Good going Google.



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Orkut in India

a gesture of honor from Orkut on India's 60 years of Independence...

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Let the World know

I received this message from one of my Journalist friend and I thought this is worth covering in my blog.

pls do this...tell every indian to have indian flag as their profile photo on aug 15....try this...lets show our unity itz not silly plz try 2 forward dis 2 every buddy of ur list try 2 imagine every orkuting india wid our ticolour falg let us celebrate our 60 years of independence

Dear Readers, please consider changing your profile picture not only in orkut, but in the other community sites and forum. Let the world know India is celebrating its 60 years of INDEPENDENCE.

Ask all your friends to do the same and spread the words.

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I think I forgot

informing my readers that Web Wings has been a part of iEntry network for last few months. I applied for WebProNews Blog Partnership and after reviewing the blog, they listed it at:
iEntry Blogger List.

Initially there was a typing mistake in my name; once I pointed it out they corrected it promptly and sent me an "excuse us" message as well :)

I really feel proud to see my name on the same page which displays a name like Aaron Walls. Moreover, MyBlogLog report is showing that Web Wings is getting visitors from ientry.com. That’s really exciting!

TimeStamp

WebWings has been looking like an orphan; none is there to look after her. Shame on me, how can I neglect her this way?

See, I am not heartless; last few weeks were really hectic. I could not participate in forums, could not read magazines and articles, could not chat with my friends and could not post in my blog as well.

However, we have achieved our target. We have completed the documentation and user-manual of two of our products, which have been launched just few minutes ago officially.

I am in a mood now. Today I will tell you how I realized the value of time once again. On last Friday, July 28; I came to office as usual. But somehow I developed the idea that it was July 29. Suddenly my eyes stuck to the table calendar and I realized the fact. Trust me; I was so happy at that time. I thought God has gifted one more day to me so that I can finish my tasks! Time is so precious!

Yahoo!

I just noticed it today; Yahoo! has added the "Recent Readers" widget of MyBlogLog on some of the article pages. I was just going through Yahoo! categories and surprised to see my smiling face there.

Now Yahoo! is also up to find bloggers' choice! Anyways, good for my blog, it will get some readers however.

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