Jul 11, 2007 01:36 PM
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(Updated Jul 11, 2007 02:00 PM)
Realisation dawned upon me about my writing eccentricity when I won the Best Article award (Music World coupons worth 1000/- (plus) a five-star Lunch with my company’s director) The article was written for our corporate magazine after thorough googling, plagiarism, lift-ups and copyright breaches. More than the coupons and lunch, more memorable were the people who contacted me over emails with appreciations, people who smiled at me in the elevator, people who shared their frustrations about their managers in the washroom, and new friends who are still in touch with me bearing the brunt of my writings and providing me instant feedback after consistent insistence (read ‘begging for feedback’).
Then I seriously felt to leverage my amateur writing abilities to widen my network, know more people and improve myself. One of those acquaintances advised me to blog. There I was. Created a blog and wrote a movie review on “Gudumba Shankar’ (Pavan Kalyan starrer, telugu movie). After a few weeks’ gap, I forgot the password. Indeed I forgot the URL too. There ended my blogging episode.
Then again after a few weeks, when I was desperately yearning for a seat in one of the premier b-schools, I was browsing the net and came across excellent and interesting blogs of IIT and IIM junta blogging nuts and bolts about their academic, personal, official, romantic and all other faces of their lives. Blogspot.com literally dominated the blogiverse. Even now it does. The metempsychosis of an amateur writer in me took charge. I created another blog and noted down the password and the URL with a sincere intention to continue. And I began blogging on topics with a motto – “Shameless Tarradiddles, Manipulations, Few Exceptions” – a mental diarrhoea was the outcome (as is being manisfested here: instead of writing about blogspot.com I am getting too deep into my autobiography).
Coming to the actual purpose of this review. Here you go.
“Blogspot.com – An appraisal”
For the technically-illiterate-but-longing-to-write guys like me, Blogspot.com does full justice. Aur, you don’t to to be a geek in HTML or Javascript. Even if you know how to type using a keyboard, that would suffice. Just type your stuff right in the big box provided, preview the same, and then finally ‘Publish’. Then forward the link to your friend or whomsoever you intend to impress.
Instant upload of your stuff and 24x7 editing options.
Then, the umpteen number of options to choose your template from among several standardised, multi-coloured, decent, attractive, free-of-cost templates where you can impress few of your uncognizant readers by passing your blog as if it’s something you have personally designed.
Drag and drop options to customise your layouts.
Picture upload options – both your’s and article-supporting images
Blogspot.com introduces you to your fellow bloggers by providing a comment section. I have personally known few such good bloggers who still don’t mind reading and commenting on whatever I write.
Next is RSS feeds (this is a type of feed)
I’m not really sure how much of free space you can occupy through the blog, but I am sure you can continue blogging for the next five years atleast without any memory-limit-violation emails from Google.
Promoting your blog through hit-counters, voting buttons, clustermaps, et al. All you need is to register your blog in these free sites, copy the html code therefrom and paste it into your blog. It works perfectly.
Perhaps, most, if not all, of the features provided by blogspot.com are as well provided by others, paranthu, * the layout, speed and the fact that it is a *google product encourages me to be a patron of the same. Probably that’s what they mean by ‘feel-good factor’
Go ahead and create your own, NOW!
https://just-chewing-over.blogspot.com/
Friendly warning: Most of the articles therein would have already appeared in mouthshut.com. Please tolerate.
