Color photographs of America during the war years. Savor what life was like then: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html
-Arvind
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Doc on Blogging
David Newberger has put up in his blog a 10-question interview with Doc Searls. Doc is at his usual best. Liked the last Q&A in particular
What advice would you give someone who is just starting out blogging?
Think of every post as an email that’s cc:world. Don’t worry about making mistakes. Be yourself. Write about what interests you. Link a lot and follow other links. Follow subjects through keyword search subscriptions in your aggregator. Drive ideas. Participate. Write with provisionally, rather than finality (leave that up to the big-time print journalists who are paid to pontificate). Start snowballs rolling, and add snow to ones rolling by. Be humble. Make mistakes, correct them and move on.
Oh, and use your own name. Don’t bury your identity.
-Arvind
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Engineering Marvels of the Future
Came across a Discovery Channel page that listed some interesting engineering projects going on. The ones that interested me were the TransAtlantic train & the Alps tunnel. The interactive images were breath-taking. Have a look.
-Arvind
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Towards Search 2.0
Hackers & the SEO community have to large extent manipulated the results of Google-Yahoo-MSN’s (GYM) algorithm-based Search 1.0 engines. And that leads to undesirable results like Google bombing, spam, more importance towards older sites etc.
Time based search (like Google Blog Search, Feedster, Technorati etc) offers a good alternative but its restricted to blogs & some frequently updated blog-like sites alone. I like MSN’s start.com as it offers a tabbed search from the Web & from the News/Feeds sections. But I would like to have a 3-in-1, Web-News-Tags based search. With Yahoo acquiring del.icio.us, the immensely popular social bookmarking site, we can expect something in this direction.
And the analogy question begs to be asked – Flickr : Riya as del.icio.us : ?? . There are many social bookmarking sites like spurl, furl, simpy, dots etc but my bet would be on blinklist.
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Zoho Writer Update
Thanks to all the feedback comments from you. Based on the comments you had given, we had been working on Zoho Writer’s UI. A completely revamped UI geared towards better usability with an added set of features is what you can expect from Zoho Writer soon.
Cheers !!
Z
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The ‘A’ List Bloggers
You’ll find this funny. Read on 
I didn’t get invited to FOOLS Camp this year, (private wail to 250 people on IM). But I will say nice things about Tim on my blog, saying what an honor it was to be invited last year. But he better darn well invite me next time, else I will hold my own Geek Barf Camp and not invite him, that will show him. How dare he? Just who does he think he is? Oh my comments are acting up. I still believe in the power of the blogs, just if you agree with me. Gobbels of the world not welcomed. Mudpit. Disagree = Troll. Oh pardon me, my comment system is down again. Disruption! Mashup! Web 2.0! I love the smell of startups! Blogs are truth and salvation all in one. Search engine rant, long-winded blather over Technorati vs. Google and then Google vs. Yahoo. MSN vs. Sphere/Exalead/Yahoo/Google and Google API/Feedster/Icerocket/Gabba Goo Bee Gabba/Technorati/Rice o’ Roni.
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Les Blogs 2.0
France 144
USA 40
U.K. 31
Germany 28
The Netherlands 22
Belgium 12
Italy 11
Switzerland 11
Spain 10
Denmark 8
Canada 6
Hungary 5
Ireland 5
Finland 4
Austria 3
Sweden 3
China 2
Ghana 2
Japan 2
Luxembourg 2
Guinea 1
Iceland 1
Israel 1
Peru 1
Zaire 1
Thats the people attending Les Blogs 2.0 that charming Loic & his team at Six Apart have organised. Hmm, no one from India made it. Believe this would change in Les Blogs 3.0.
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