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This message came in from Alex Singleton today:
For your delectation and delight, I am pleased to announce the launch of a new blog. The Globalization Institute Blog will be a major source of information and commentary on development economics, international trade and poverty relief. As you might imagine from the name, we’re in favour of […]

Don’t you hate it when you go over to a site and it pops a “free registration required” — I would then go through the motions of registering even if it was just to read one article. Then I came across the wonderful BugMeNot site. I love it. Here’s an excerpt from their FAQ:
What’s […]

Kiruba Shankar is throwing a vodka cocktail party at his home in Chennai on February 13. I would have gladly flown down but it’s Valentine’s eve and I’ve been booked.

As we’ve already had reams of stuff written on last Sunday’s blogger meet, I will refrain from contributing more hot air (prefer to use that to warm myself)
However, I shall promise to write up on helmets, seat belts and steering-wheel-spikes. Yes, I know I’ve promised articles post the last bloggers meet. Which means, dear […]

The Bombay Bloggers Meet is on today.
4 pm
Café Coffee Day
Chowpatty
(nearest railway station: Charni Road)
See you there!

I’ve always found it nice to see people I know start blogs. And when they are editors of a youth magazine (with a sharp eye for observation), I know I’m in for a treat. Rashmi Bansal of Jam Magazine has started a blog called Youth Curry where she’d like to
go beyond the superficial level and […]

The results of the 2004 Indibloggies are out. AnarCapLib came 2nd in the only category we were nominated in (Best Topical IndiBlog). The winner was Shiok Chef’s Notes, the food blog run by Madhu Menon, webmaster of this blog, guest blogger here and of course web guru extraordinaire. Madhu also wins Best Designed […]

We need to meet more bloggers and meet more often. While writing up on the last blog meet, I’d proposed January 30th. How does the Chowpatty Cafe Coffee Day at 4 pm sound? It’s large and 4 pm is a time when I assume it’ll be empty. Plus if more bloggers come out of the […]

Ok. This is a rant. I can be nice when I want to, but this time I want to vent some steam about last Sunday’s piece on blogging in the Indian Express.
The very first thing that hit me about Murali Menon is that he didn’t know anything whatsoever about blogs and worse he hadn’t […]

Mediaah! was the best “one topic” blog I’d seen with superb commentary on the Indian media, till it closed down around a year back. Pradyuman Maheshwari seems to have got his act back on track. I’m going to enjoy his analyses — here’s one on the battle for business channels
And why is it back? Ask […]

We keep getting stray references to the libertarian cartel. Here is my original post on it. Looking at it six months down the line, the list of Indian bloggers who fit the bill has increased. (There are many libertarian blogs around the world, but few which focus on India). If you think you too […]

The cartel is pretty good at sniffing out fellow libertarian bloggers. Our latest find is the “supernova” in the blog world today — Amit Varma. The man actually maintains 3 blogs — India Uncut, The Middle Stage and 23 yards; plus he hopes to start a fourth on cows!
Ravikiran, Gaurav and I met up […]

Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce that AnarCapLib has been nominated at the IndiBloggies for Best Topical IndiBlog. This is both a happy and sad moment for me. Happy because I’ve contributed a bit to this site and it’s been nominated. So in a way, I feel as if I have been nominated […]

The first blog mela for the year is up at MadMan’s Web. The main focus simply chose itself. This is the first time that entire blogs have been nominated. Go on and read thru to get a feel of what’s really happening on the ground. I find the blog coverage much more in […]

The next few posts by me will be on peripheral (but very interesting) aspects of the deadly Tsunami that hit us this week. I’m not going to focus on the well covered areas like news and relief operations. For that, go to the excellent South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog.
Ravikiran has a few thoughts […]

We may be at the end of the year, but this mela is largely about the beginning of the alphabet.
A for Atul Arora. As he was the first in the fray, go on and read about his poor dog, confused between countries and on life in a HOV lane. (both posts in Hindi)
Ashish Hanwadikar […]

Ouch! I just remembered that I host the next blog mela. And it’s on for the day after tomorrow!!
I’m currently in IIM Bangalore for a seminar. Will be here till Sunday. Which is when I shall post the mela. So we have a slight stretch of dates. Nominate posts dated December 10-19th. Drop all nominations […]

I’m browisng through a great blog: Vice Squad. They concern themselves with
Explorations of public policy concerning alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, prostitution, gambling, pornography, ….
How sorely do we need this in India with the police (and media) going after activities between consenting adults — like these. Could we perhaps concentrate on the rapes, murders and […]

Which is funnier? Kiruba’s latest post about some film star being caught naked on tape by a hidden camera? Or the reaction from his conservative Chennai readership that is aghast that Kiruba is not setting a good example for his readers?
There are comments about the “ethics of blogging”. Some people even think college kids […]

The new Becker Posner blog promises some rich goodies in the area of law and economics. After all, how many blogs do we have by Nobel Prize winners and judges at the US Court of Appeals?
I suspect the man to thank must be Lawrence Lessig.