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Anil Dash has an interesting post on blog songs. My favorite is the American Pie inspired the day that blogging died. Fairvue Central’s site seems down, so I haven’t got a chance to sample the songs there.
I wonder if we have Hindi blog-geet (blogeet?). Maybe Nukta Chini might want to jump in the fray? […]

It seems like Jivha has had an attack of election blogorrhea. Twenty posts in one day. Way to go!
If you get lost, he’s kindly provided a content list. It must’ve all started with the suggestions he got on an open thread.

Rejoice! For I have restarted my blog.

Well Yazad, congrats and all for winning the Blog Mela, but why did you buy this using your Amazon gift certificate?

Can someone help me please?
I registered my domain about 2 years back with Win2000hoster.com. I was young and naive, and it seemed like a good and cheap deal at the time, but now I’ve realised that the problem is that they are both the hosting company and the domain registrar, and there doesn’t seem to […]

All those who use Movabletype, please install MT Blacklist on your site to protect against comment spam.
We can add the URLs that the spammers advertise into a blacklist. MT Blacklist will purge the comments containing those URLs from the system and prevent any further comments with those URLs. You can import the blacklists […]

Happy birthday to guest blogger Ravikiran Rao, who turns 37 today. Since he’s taking a break from his site (just like I am), y’all can drop your wishes and b’day bumps right here.
I’m kidding about his age. He’s not a day over 35 29.

AnarCapLib was hit by 80+ spam comments in the last few hours. I’ve just managaed to delete them all (and ban the IP). I think I’d have to do more than just periodically delete these spam comments.
Most of the spam hits old posts. I am going to close comments on posts that are more […]

From the Economist
The short history of society’s fight against spam—usually defined as unwanted commercial e-mail—may be about to pass into a significant third phase. In the first phase, it was geeks who led the resistance, using techie weapons such as e-mail filters with fancy Bayesian mathematics. In the second phase, politicians joined in, eager to […]

David J. Heinrich at the Mises blog writes about Richard Stallman (RMS) and the free software movement.
This is a very interesting example of how one individual — without even the incentive of great profit, but only of moral correctness — can make an enormous difference, and create alternatives, which individuals on a free market can […]

When I was in school, the pre-eminent news program was Prannoy Roy’s The World This Week (TWTW). Friday nights were sacrosanct. Like all good things on Doordarshan, India’s only TV channel then, it was shelved after a good run.
After the launch of his NDTV 24/7, Roy restarted TWTW last September. I watched it for […]

While “with us or against us” has been a staple in US foreign policy (GWB is a forceful supporter of the theme), I find it surprising that bloggers who are rabidly anti Bush also use this principle as a crutch.
Last week, I happened to comment on Jivha’s post on Uma Bharti forgetting development / […]

Ankh has a piece on the Resident Idiot. Don’t know who he is? Well, we’ve fisked him here.

We’re back to the basics — to enjoy, ponder and rant about what’s best (and perhaps what’s worst) in the Bharatiya Blogosphere. And no phancy photoos, only bak-bak!
Aashish Chandorkar disagrees with Goldman Sachs on the Demographic Dividend.
Kingsley Jegan stretches a climax. And he’s not faking it!
Shobha gripes about Mee Mumbaikar.
Prashant Kothari does a triple […]

In two superb posts, Jonathan Wilde at Catallarchy describes how the blogosphere is an excellent example of free market anarchy and spontaneous order (or kosmos as he calls it).
Even without a central command apparatus, the blogosphere, rather than being chaotic, is a dynamic, living, breathing, adapting, and most of all, structured organism. (italics in original)
Needless […]

The 38th Bharatiya Blog Mela will be hosted on AnarCapLib next week. Send in your entries either in the comments section of this post or to yazadjal AT vsnl.net
The mela will be posted here on Tuesday, December 2, 2003.
The usual rules apply. Send in posts dated between November 23 and December 1, 2003.

Decided to take one more step into tech savvydom. I know it’s rather banal, but I got myself onto the RSS feed bandwagon right now via a utility called AmphetaDesk. I’ve been looking, but can’t seem to find the links for feeds from mainstream media — TOI / BBC / CNN / Economist. Maybe I’m […]

Work and life have conspired to keep me from the blog. The mind is fertile with ideas but the connection is out of reach. Should make contact soon. Till then . . .

We have a new genre of jokes. Blondes are passé. Bloggers are the in-thing. Yaya!
Q: How many bloggers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two — one to change it while the other apologizes for the recent lack of illumination and explains that they’ve been really busy lately.
From Defective Yeti. The comments section […]

I’ve thought a lot about what to do with the posts on my previous blog, Carpe Diem. MT has the option of importing all the posts, but I think some of what I wrote is best left where it is. I am going to selectively repost stuff from there on AnarCapLib.
The question now is, […]