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This is the presentation I used at the Blogging Workshop at Saarang 2009 held on Jan 23rd 2009 at IIT Madras. ps: I actually managed to RickRoll everyone at the workshop.
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Zen and the art of blogging
about Motorcycle maintenance despite not knowing the
difference between a spark plug and a silencer
Krish AshokDoing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa
Star Date -314058.67
Always listen to the skepticsBlogging
Noun. The act of taking a dustbin, and emptying it on top of a steaming pile of uncollected garbage
It’s deforestation with an extra letterBlogging
It’s burdening with an extra letter. Rather literallyBlogging
Why did I start blogging?
I originally started blogging about atheism because I wanted to parade my ignorance loudly enough for someone to care enough to correct me and inform me.
and
= Guaranteed comments/traffic
http://warpedperspective.rediffblogs.com/
So..
I decided to blog about nothing in particular, everything in general and mostly about nonsense
PS: It’s hard to find fault with absurdity
Jalsa = Illicit gratification
Jilpa = Expounding on matters one is ignorant about
BooksSuperstar Violin
Terry Pratchett
Some dude playingthe guitar
ScienceMath
Basic Ingredients
Hitchhikers Guide
Carnatic Music
Madras Bashai
Festivals
TravelWeb 2.0
Shakespeare
Pour in Sumeet Mixie, blend and serve
Each of my posts is an exercise in how much
nonsense I can pack into 800-900 words and
continue to marvel at how people still say - “great post KA”
I don’t really know what my niche audience is
IndiansTamils
Engineers
Carnatic lovers
Douglas Adams fans
People who speak Madras Bashai
Krish Ashok’s Blogging Advice Gyaan Knowledge Sharing Instructions Enlightenment Commandments edicts rubric manual guide tutorial handbook counsel words of wisdom pointers hints tips Jilpa Fatta Hawa Phillim Mostly Peter
ps: Blogging is no fun without trolls
Anatomy of a Troll
Name whispered into his ear at his naming ceremony Loves Gay people
Adept at identifying sexual preferences from
blog post content Incredibly real Email id
Top secret site not indexed by Google
Usual hangout: Rediff comments section, but comments on
blogs once in a while
Trolls refresh your blog a million times a day just to check to see if any one has bothered to disagree with their obviously-designed-
to-provoke comment
Highly Unethical Traffic tip
But DJSJ has been mostly troll-free
Why, I wonder?
I usually have no strong opinions, I mean, at least opinions that I cannot
quickly change. Weekly dose of absurdity is what I aspire to
Perhaps because
ps: It’s hard to troll absurdity
Some will like everything you say
Some will urge you to write about things they feel strongly about
Some will be nostalgic about the good ol’ days when you were a better
blogger
It’s just a damn blog (one in a 100+ million)
But
You will learn to value criticism from strangers
ps: Your close friends don’t count
The parallels are obviousFriends introduce you.
You start checking it out.
It’s good fun
It becomes an obsession
You can’t live without your daily fix
Perhaps we need to save us all from this menace
to
I urge Scoble to not share his blog stats in public as it
sets a bad example for our blogging youth
My blog taught me to be intellectually honest.
My audience calls out any BS I try to pull
Over a period of time, I’ve learnt to question more,
research more and be a more rational person
ps: Even Absurdity has Standards, you know
And one last lesson..
and the most important one at that
All the things I told you so far
Bad Advice.
Listen to KirubaHe’s the real deal
= pseudo-intellectual amateur musician software-
type-boring-person who blogs about absurdity for fun
= an entrepreneur whose has built a career out of his
blog
According to Clay Shirky
Some perspective first
Effort (approx) to create Wikipedia
100 million hours
Time spent consumed by TV just in the US
200 billion hoursOR
100 million hours just watching ads on a weekend
Ref: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
Playing pranks on my wifeLearning to playRondo Alla Turca, Prelude in C, and the Moonlight Sonata” on the PianoPrelude in C for Cello (Bach)A Ragam Thaanam Pallavi in Shankarabharanam on the violin
A Weekly radio show on Tech/Web on 104.8 FMWrite columns for newspapersPlaying the latest Prince of PersiaCoding an online version of Scotland Yard using Ruby on Rails and Google Maps (with real places) - called Maanagara
Kaaval
Updating my blog once a weekand oh...my day job at a large IT firm that involves
quite a bit of travel
List of things I’m doing right now
So..
The Krish Ashok Super-Mega-Secret Temporal Chromatography Technique
The scientific method of separating/extracting time
from things it’s hard to separate it from
Look for it
The next person who asks me where I find time needs to fix an appointment with Shankar
Nethraalaya