Written by navin on December 8th, 2009 in Miscellaneous No Comments
Tags: bloggers, blogging
Earlier, we reported that 5 Pune blogs are nominated for the IndiBloggies awards. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, we missed the fact that one of Pune’s most read blogs, Trak.in, is also nominated in the “Best Business IndiBlog” section (#13). Please check that out also.
That brings the total Pune nominations to 6. The full list [...]
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Written by navin on December 8th, 2009 in Miscellaneous 2 Comments
Tags: bloggers, blogging
Quick summary: The IndiBloggies awards, started by Pune’s Debashish Chakrabarty, are, in spite of flaws, India’s top awards for blogging (and now for twittering). From thousands of submissions 6 Pune blogs have been nominated by a panel of prominent bloggers – which means that these blogs are worth checking out. And, to determine the winners, [...]
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Written by navin on August 5th, 2009 in punetech 3 Comments
Tags: blogging, community, legal, policies, punetech, website
This note lays out the editorial policy for PuneTech.com, to help the community understand what goes up on the site, and why.
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Written by navin on June 25th, 2009 in Events, Miscellaneous No Comments
Tags: barcamp, blogcamp, blogcamppune, blogcamppune2, blogging, community, unconferences, web
(Tarun Chandel, one of the organizers of BlogCampPune, sent out this mail to all those signed up to attend BlogCampPune 2, and it is being reproduced here for the benefit of those who haven’t yet registered – in the hope of convincing you that this is where you want to be on Saturday. And of [...]
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Written by navin on June 22nd, 2009 in Events, Featured 27 Comments
Tags: barcamp, blogcamp, blogcamppune, blogcamppune2, blogging, community, unconferences, web
Passion
That is the one word that a BlogCamp can be captured in – passion. Bloggers, the serious ones, are very passionate about their blogging. And usually, the more successful blogs tend to be about a few specific topics that the blogger is very interested in, and puts a lot of time and effort into. And [...]
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Written by navin on March 2nd, 2009 in Featured, Miscellaneous 10 Comments
Tags: blogging, community, law, legal, policies, punetech, web, website
PuneTech is a for-the-community, by-the-community site, and comments by our readers play an important part of the content. However, to ensure that the discussion always stays healthy, constructive and safe, we occasionally have to delete some of the comments. This note lays out our comments policy to help the community understand what kinds of comments [...]
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Written by navin on May 20th, 2008 in News No Comments
Tags: blogging, News, social bookmarking, startups, web
When Pune-based social web-clipping service Monkiri had launched a couple of weeks ago, I had complained that it’s utility is very limited because it does not allow posting the clips to the user’s personal blog. They have moved quickly, and fixed the problem. They now support Blogger and Wordpress blogs. That should certainly increase its [...]
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Written by navin on May 6th, 2008 in Overviews 1 Comment
Tags: blogging, startups, web
Pune-based Monkiri is a browser plugin (IE & FF) that enables a web user clip portions of a webpage, comment on it, and post it to a blog hosted on Monkiri.
Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website. At this [...]
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