Hindi Song | Mutiny Blog Now Published as a Print Magazine

Jacob Joseph launched Mutiny as a personal blog some five years ago but it soon acquired the shape of a community blog with dozens of contributors (they call themselves mutineers) who all have day-jobs but still contribute religiously to Mutiny.

Now what this team has done is even more interesting – they have launched a print magazine based on their blog. This is probably the first blog that is available for reading both inside news-readers and on news-stands.

The motivation for launching a blog as a print magazine was simple – they want to reach more people as only a minuscule minority is reading blogs online at least in India.

My initial reaction to Mutiny’s blog magazine is exactly the same as Amit Varma - "It takes gumption and commitment to take a bold step like that, and I wish them all the best."

The first issue is available online as well.

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Hindi Song | A Day in the Life of a Part-Time Blogger Who Has a Full-Time Job

This is how David Armano describes a typical day of his ‘blogging + work + family’ life.

Am sure lot of people can connect with this diagram especially those who actively blog and also have a full-time job somewhere.

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Hindi Song | BlogAds Invitations Available for Bloggers & Site Owners

Blogads is one of the few advertising systems on the web that follow a flat fee structure instead of the CPC / CPM model. Advertisers pay a fixed monthly rate that are also decided by the publisher himself.

You get 70% of the advertising revenue while the rest 30% goes to BlogAds plus the credit card or PayPal transaction costs, which typically amount to 2%-3%.

If you maintain a blog or website with decent traffic, please fill this form and you may get a BlogAds invite. I have a limited number of invites only and this giveaway is therefore not on a first-come first-served basis.

Unlike Google AdSense, BlogAds doesn’t have that huge pool of advertisers so you may want to check out these hives (example) to know if your niche fits the BlogAds network.

This video tutorial explains how advertisers can sponsor space on your blog via BlogAds.

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Hindi Song | The Unnecessary Complex Design of Google Blogs Search

A somewhat disappointing fact about Google Blogs is that the site has been written purely in JavaScript so all you’ll see is a blank page if you try opening Google Blogs Search in a browser that doesn’t support JavaScript (like screen readers) or a browser that has JavaScript disabled - something that’s quite common on mobile phones.

No Google Blogs Search for non-JavaScript browsers

Maybe Google decided to go with a JavaScript-only site to prevent screen scraping or is it anything to do with Google Chrome that is known to render JavaScript faster than other browsers.

Another issue, as I mentioned before, is the amount of spam content in Google Blog Search. For instance, the following story is from a blog that is republishing content from TechCrunch.

Spam Content in Google Blogs Search

Surprisingly, that spam blog made its way into a news cluster on Google Blog Search but the original story from TechCrunch can nowhere be found. This I think is an important issue that Matt didn’t touch up in his article comparing Google Blogs with Techmeme.

Personally, I don’t feel that Techmeme has anything to worry about yet.

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Hindi Song | Amitabh Bachchan’s Blog Stats

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is also India’s best known blogger, recently revealed some details about traffic flowing through his blog.

Amitabh has been blogging at bigb.bigadda.com since April this year and following is a summary of his blog stats:

• Total Page Views since April: 11.5 million
• Total Number of Unique Visitors since April: 1 million
• Total Number of Unique + Regular visitors since April: 2.5 million

While these are extremely impressive figures for sure, it does hint that only a very small fraction of India’s 1 billion strong population may actually be reading blogs online.

At the same time, stars like him have definitely helped popularize the concept of blogs here.

Hindi Song | Translate & Subscribe to Blogs Feeds Written in Foreign Languages with Mloovi

A Technorati report suggested that only 36% of the blog posts are written in English while the rest are published in Japanese, Chinese, Italian and other languages.

While this data may be slightly old, it does hint at the multilingual nature of blogosphere and how we miss majority of the published content by limiting subscriptions only to RSS feeds that are written in English.

Now if you like to expand your daily information sources and read feeds published in foreign languages, Mloovi could be an ideal service for you.

1. Mloovi translates blog feeds from one language to another using Google Translate.

2. The translated version is available as a feed so people can directly subscribe to it in any news reader.

Founder Mike Robinson says that Mloovi is also available as a widget for blog publishers - this will help non-English speaking visitors to directly subscribe your blog in their own native language without using language translation.

For instance, here are links to this feed in Hindi, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. You only get partial summaries because of Google Translate API limitations but they should still be good enough for getting a basic idea about the full post.

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