tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5525270478093746982011-12-21T19:04:33.109-08:00Personal blog of Pramit Singh, Blogger, Editor and Founder of Citizen Publishing site Bighow.com. I shall post links to interesting stuff I find on the web as well as to my online projects and writings.Pramit Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668528988974177140noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552527047809374698.post-38204200593354069662008-12-30T08:39:00.000-08:002008-12-30T13:18:01.831-08:00Since 2005, I have trained and managed online reporters as the Managing Editor of a blog Network, started a blog on New Media called Mediavidea and funded a tool for citizen journalism, <a href="http://bighow.com/">Bighow</a>. My online presence is a bit spread out and google doesn't help in searching for my online footprint unless you are game for scrolling through 10 pages or more. I had to find a solution to the problem.<br /><br />Below is a list of links to the better writing I have done online in these past 3 years. I have put categories to make it easy for you to scan. <span style="font-style: italic;">I tend to question things and I think you will notice this slant in this collection - Is the India shining story sustainable? Is storing out data online safe? Are Facebook and Twitter a waste of time? Is iPhone really that great a phone? </span>Why are ignoring the real stories in India? Read on.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Consumer Gadgets and Software</span><br /><br />Vista: <a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/case-against-vista.html">13 main problems with Windows Vista</a><br />Facebook: <a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/08/12-problems-with-facebook.html">12 main problems with Facebook</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mobiles</span><br />iPhone: <a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/apples-iphone-8-important-issues.html">8 Important things to know</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-on-ideal-cellphone.html">The Ideal Cellphone feature list</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Media</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/09/a-to-z-of-new-media.html">The A To Z of New Media: 80 useful things to know</a><br /><a href="http://miaveddea.bilogspot.com/2007/12/what-will-happen-next-rounding-up-30.html">30 predictions for New Media</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/08/very-short-guide-to-media-cliches.html">A Quick and Dirty Guide to Media Cliches</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-favorite-internet-manifestos.html">My Favorite Internet Manifestos</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/06/mika-brzezinskis-lesson-to-journalists.html">Mika Brzezinskis Lessons for Journalists</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-be-leader-in-your-pack.html">Mathew Effect and How to be a Leader in your Pack</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/reason-why-content-is-still-not-king.html">Why content is still not king</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social News</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/7-steps-to-successful-social-news-site.html">7 Steps to a Successful Social News Site</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/quick-content-analysis-of-top-social.html">Quick Content anaysis of Top Social Sites</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Digg<br /><br /></span><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-bashing-roundup.html">Digg Bashing: A Roundup</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/creating-digg-of-diggs.html">Creating a Digg of Diggs</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/digg-in-print.html">Digg in Print</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/loving-diggwhy.html">Loving Digg…why?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-on-top-of-digg-is-out-becoming.html">Getting on top of Digg is out, being a top Digg user is in</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Development</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/11-things-to-read-before-you-build.html">11 things to read before you build your ultimate web site</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/creating-ultimate-news-site.html">Creating the Ultimate News Site</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Entrepreneurship</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/startup-is-hard-in-new-delhi.html">Startup is hard in New Delhi</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/12/barcampdelhi3-random-thoughts-on-bighow.html">On Barcamp and Bighow, tool for citizen journalism</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/11/bighow-beeps-in.html">Bighow: tool for citizen journalism</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/10/dadas-7-reasons-why-google-should-buy.html">7 Reasons why Google should buy The New York Times</a> [2006]<br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/12/someone-please-tell-google-to-buy-new.html">Someone please tell Google to buy New York Times already</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-do-you-need-to-do-to-compete-with.html">What you need to compete with Google</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/10-things-that-ex-googlers-can-do.html">10 things ex-Googlers can do</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google: Don't be Evil?</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-michael-moores-next-target-should.html">Why Michael Moore's next Target should be Google</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/7-signposts-on-slippery-path-from.html">Signposts on the slippery path from Good to evil</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/will-google-be-ever-good-again.html">Will Google be ever Good again?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Online Rights</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/02/wikileaks-faq.html">The Wikileaks FAQ</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/bypassing-internet-censorship-roundup.html">Bypassing Internet Censorship: A Roundup</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blogging</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/simplelist-7-super-reasons-why-you-must.html">Top 7 reasons why you must blog right now</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/abcd-of-blogging.html">ABCD of Blogging</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/04/9-models-of-bloggers-collectives.html">9 models of Bloggers' Collectives</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/simplelist-if-you-had-only-3-blogs-to.html">The only 3 blogs you must read to master blogging</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/simplelist-only-10-seo-blogs-you-need.html">The only 10 SEO blogs you must read to master online marketing</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/03/can-blog-posts-drive-people-to-suicide.html">Can Blog posts drive people to suicide?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Business Blogging</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-use-blogs-for-your-business.html">How to use blogs in your business</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Citizen Journalism</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/07/citizen-journalism-is-not-dead-7-things.html">Citizen Journalism is not dead; 7 things you must do</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/09/to-succeed-citizen-journalism-needs.html">To Succeed Citizen Journalism needs good reporting</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/02/editor-is-dead-long-live-editor.html">The Editor is dead, Long live the Editor</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-promote-your-local-site.html">How to promote your local site</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/02/future-of-news-publishing-opinion.html">The Future on Online News: Analysis, analysis</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/12/pulitzer-for-blogs-revisting-blogitzers.html">Awarding Online News: Introducing the Blogitzers</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">People Lists</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/top-25-people-online-peoples-choice.html">Top 25 People Online: People's Choice Edition</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-most-powerful-people-on-internet.html">100 most powerful people on Internet</a> [Top digg users]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">India</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-does-india-need-most-100-computer.html">What does India Need most today? Tata Nano or $100 Computer?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/government-of-india-biggest-real.html">Government of India: World's biggest Real Estate Agent?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/india-tanking-why-didnt-anyone-tell-me.html">India Tanking: why didn't anyone tell me all this before?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/india-tanking-part-2-education.html">India Tanking Part 2: The Education Chronicles</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/india-tanking-part-3-where-have.html">India Tanking Part 3: Where have all the business Ideas Gone?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/02/indian-superpower-has-no-clothes.html">The Indian Superpower has no clothes</a><br /><a href="http://pramit.instablogs.com/entry/the-heartland-a-primer/">A Simple Guide to the Indian Heartland</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/guides/a-simpleguide-to-india-in-2008">A Simpleguide to India in 2008</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/guides/a-simpleguide-to-most-important-india-rankings-and-facts-2008-edition">A Simpleguide to most important India facts and rankings</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea..com/2007/05/7-things-to-know-about-web-in-india.html">7 Essential Things to know about web 2.0 in India before...</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Indian Blogging and Citizen Journalism</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/12/simpleguide-to-biggest-moments-in.html">A Simpleguide to the Biggest Moments in Indian Blogging</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/02/state-of-citizen-journalism-in-india_9328.html">A Simpleguide to Citizen Journalism in India: 3 Part Series</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/03/will-scrabulous-make-indias-first-web.html">Will Scrabulous make India's first Web 2.0 millionaire?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/06/making-money-blogging-india-edition.html">Making money blogging: India Edition</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blog Networks</span><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-networks-overview.html">An Overview of Blog Networks</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/04/ultimate-reading-list-for-aspiring-blog.html">The Ultimate Reading List for Aspiring Blog Network Owners</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/ethics-101-for-blog-network-owners.html">Ethics 101 for Blog Network Owners</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web 2.0</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/04/web-20-confused-persons-manifesto.html">The Confused Person's Guide to Web 2.0</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/web-20-gets-pied-piper-in-cheerleaders.html">Web 2.0 and its Pied Pipers</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/05/stop-oversharing-t-shirt.html">The Stop Oversharing T-shirt</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-web-20-can-change-politics.html">How Web 2.0 can change politics</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/07/fallacy-of-examples-echo-chamber.html">How we are creating one big giant echo chamber</a><br /><a href="http://pramit.instablogs.com/entry/the-10-pillars-of-todays-business/">The 10 Pillars of Today's Business</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Future</span><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/08/future-of-things.html">The Future of Things</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/01/web-20-aka-big-brother-aka-hal-aka.html">Web 2.0 aka Big Brother Aka..</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/02/end-of-web-revolution.html">The End of web revolution</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Search</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/09/social-media-search-engine-ver-05.html">The Social Media Search Engine ver 1.0</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-search-social-media-50-ways-to.html">How to Search Social Media: 50+ ways</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wikipedia</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/03/top-5-things-i-would-do-i-were-in.html">Top 5 things I would do if I were in charge of Wikipedia</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media and India</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-media-wishlist-for-india-in-2067.html">My Media Wishlist for India</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/covering-poor-ruminations-on-best-book.html">Thoughts on covering stories of the Poor in India</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-not-to-learn-from-worlds-largest.html">What not to learn from the world's largest selling Newspaper</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Predictions</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-predictions-what-internet-thinks.html">2009 Predictions: What the Internet thinks will happen in 2009</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/01/30-great-questions-for-web-20-in-2008.html">30 Great questions for Web 2.0 in 2008</a><br /><a href="http://pramit.instablogs.com/entry/hellocompanys-predictions-for-2006/">Hellocompany's Predictions for 2006</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Online Journalism and Money</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/my-top-7-ways-of-making-money-on-net.html">Top 7 ways of making money on the net</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/11/paying-users-of-web-20-sites.html">Paying users of web 2.0 sites</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/02/four-models-for-paying-journalists.html">Four Models of Paying Journalists</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Networking</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/03/9-reasons-why-e-mail-still-beats-social.html">9 solid reasons why Email still beats Social Networking</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/02/generation-scan-are-we-amusing.html">Generation Scan: Are we amusing ourselves to distraction?</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/07/when-facebook-user-got-job.html">When a Facebook user got a job</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Media</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/simplelist-only-15-blogs-on-social.html">Simplelist: The only 15 blogs on social media you got to read</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blogs to Books</span><br /><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-turn-your-blog-into-book.html">How to turn your blog into a book</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2008/11/ultimate-test-of-quality-blog-or.html">The Ultimate test of a Quality Blog</a><br /><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogs-to-books-revisited.html">Blogs to Books: Revisited</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Films</span><br /><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/a-simple-guide-to-aamir-khan-and-his-controversies">A Simpleguide to Aamir Khan and his controversies</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/ghazini-yet-another-mindless-film">Gazhini: State-of-the-art Mindless film</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/aamir-khan-the-pretender-of-gazni">Aamir Khan: The Pretender of Gazhini</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mumbai Terror Attacks</span><br /><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/a-list-of-timelines-of-major-terror-attacks-in-india-and-in-mumbai">A list of timelines of major terrorist attacks in India and in Mumbai</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/mumbai-terror-attacks-a-relief-directoryall-useful-helpline-numbers-and-how-to-help">Mumbai Terror Attacks: A relief Directory</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/how-the-internet-is-covering-the-mumbai-terror-attacks">How the internet is covering the Mumbai Terror attacks</a><br /><a href="http://bighow.com/news/how-social-media-can-cover-live-stories-responsibly">How the social media can cover live stories responsibly</a><br />Mumbai Terror attacks: <a href="http://bighow.com/news/mumbai-terror-attacks-the-cons-of-live-coverage">pros and cons of live coverage</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bihar Floods 2008</span><br /><br />Bihar Floods 2008: <a href="http://bighow.com/news/bihar-floods-2008-relief-directory">A relief directory</a><br />Bihar Floods: <a href="http://bighow.com/news/special-report-bihar-floods-2008">Special Report</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/552527047809374698-3820420059335406966?l=pramitsingh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pramit 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