When I first started out with blogging, it was really fun, there were incentives to write, most of them not related to money. However, over a period of time, you start to innovate and do things which not many people like. It is more of a personal decision keeping your readers in mind.

In the same way, I have innovated things with Techie Buzz, turning it from a single-author blog to a news site where 25 authors write. Now, this change was not instant and there were several transition periods in between, some of the changes were not easy to come by, and we as a group have consulted several times on the changes and how it would affect our readers.

But in the end, change is not always accepted and people will eventually adapt to it. It has been almost a year now and I see people accepting the changes and that has shown in the growth of readers and regular traffic. In addition to that, there has also been an increase in content sharing by users.

Now, there are a few subset of people who come up and say that we are a shitty site, however, I tend to disagree on that, agreed that we source news, but we rewrite it and publish it giving our own views. In the last few months, I have come across bloggers and readers from India who have a certain wrong mentality when it comes to blogging or news.

I will lay down the pointers below and give my explanation as to why that thinking is wrong.

People come up to me and say that your posts are always linking to other blogs or new sites: Well, first of all that is not always true, there is so much content on the site which is well researched and brought to the fore front. We do blend our content with news and write our own take on it, and do not just simply copy paste stuff from others.

Secondly, we are not ashamed to tell readers about our sources. We are in-fact proud to do that, even if we use images from an outside site. I have seen several bloggers who do not do that, I mean what is the point of passing off news as your own when you have not spent time researching for it, other than seeing it on another site and slapping it as your own. It is the single biggest problem I have with many bloggers.

And thirdly, what is the point of adding via links so small that it shows you are ashamed to credit your sources. Change your mentality, grow up and learn that the Internet is build on inter-webs and linking, credit your sources and don’t be ashamed if you are writing news which was originally broken by someone else, add value to it and make it your own, rather than passing it off as your own.

Open your eyes and see how news sites in US work, most of the one’s in India are ashamed to credit sources, which is really a down market thing to do.

We do a good job of bringing news to our readers and will continue to do so, our team is capable enough of writing good content, so the thought that people have about us linking to others does not hold value to me.

We post too much content: Another complaint I got from few people was that we post too much content, however, let’s face it we are a news site and will post content as it happens and not wait for it to stale out before posting it.

Again, we put our own views into the posts we write and do not just copy paste snippets from other sites. Thirdly, our reader base has almost tripled since we started writing more content, so that goes on to show that readers like what we do.

We are a Crappy blog: Well, we are not a blog anymore, we are more of a news site. Most Indian users are not used to news sites. Most of the Indian blogs out there are really good, there is no doubt about it, I thoroughly enjoy reading them, but for me doing the same thing was like stagnating growth, I grew up from that mentality, and it looks like it is hard for many of my Indian friends to digest.

The Indian mentality is that tech blogs have to be about how-to, social networking, software etc, the adaptation of news sites as blogs is still a long way to go. I am not saying that it will never happen, but stop calling blogs which make a transition to news crappy.

Since I moved the main theme behind the site, we have seen tremendous growth in both regular readers and traffic. We are one of the few Indian blogs which make it to global tech resources like TechMeme and are also linked by high quality news papers, high quality tech sites and more, including by Huff Post. If we were crappy we would not have achieved global recognitions by these news papers and sites.

Summarizing: I follow some very high quality blogs from India, and they are no doubt very good. I transitioned my site to be something which is recognized and known globally, many of the news we write is breaking news which no one has covered.

I am not saying that I am doing something big, I am doing something I have focus on and have planned out. We are no longer a blog and I am not trying to change people’s mentality towards that, those who read us know about it, which is why they are still there. I am proud to have achieved so much with this blog and will continue to strive hard to make it a Indian news site, which focuses on both Indian content and global content and is recognized as one of the top sites in the world.

Being one of the Indian sites, which is recognized as a trusted news resource across the world will give me more happiness than anything else. We are halfway there, the rest of the journey will continue. However, I still denounce they way people are stuck with a narrow-minded approach towards blogging in India.

This post is not complete, I might add more views to them later.

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However, I have been planning to visit and meet several people I have been interacting with on Twitter and who have been writing on Techie Buzz, and hopefully it should be great experience.

On this trip I plan to visit, New Delhi, Agra, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. Phew, it is a tough schedule so I would hopefully get to sleep on the flights at-least, anyways, here is how I am planning my trip.

Mumbai -> Delhi -> Agra -> Delhi -> Bangalore -> Chennai -> Kolkata -> Mumbai

The schedule is somewhat like this:

Mumbai -> Delhi on April 13th (Flight)

Delhi -> Agra on April 13th night or 14th morning. (Bus)

Agra -> Delhi on April 14th night. (Bus)

Delhi -> Bangalore on April 15th morning (Flight)

Bangalore -> Chennai on April 16th morning or Afternoon (Flight)

Chennai -> KOLKATA on April 17th morning or Afternoon. (Flight)

KOLKOTA -> Mumbai  on April 19th morning (Flight) (Home Sweet Home)

I am sure about these dates, but would be able to visit other cities if I can. So please let me know if I am missing any cities and I will plan the trip around that too.

Look forward to visiting India and meeting all you lovely people. However, like I said that I have ulterior motives which I cannot disclose other than this.

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Other good news include that Techie Buzz is now regularly featured in TechMeme, which is a great honor for me as it is after all the Holy Grail of technology for many. We also got featured on the Slashdot home page, which is again a big achievement for any tech site, and were featured in Softpedia and several other high profile tech blogs. We are also part of 9Rules and Google News, phew so much more to add, but I will cut it short.

This post is not to brag about these achievements, it is to express my joy that all the hard work I have put in the last 3 and half years, and the collective effort of the Techie Buzz team in the last 9 months or so has helped us achieve so much, it is really the most exciting times for me, and probably one of the best December and Holiday season I have ever had.

I thank everyone for all the support, my friends, my Jammu and all the authors at Techie Buzz for being with me all through this. I had one promise to all my authors that we will move towards the top, and this is definitely a real awesome step towards being there.

I hope someone who is so important to me, but with whom I cannot share the happiness with reads this somehow and laughs, that will make me so much more happy.

Wish me all the luck for the future

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Listen to this song by Sona Mohapatra and you would definitely fall in love with it.

Love you Jaanu.

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A channel whose main Valentine show would be “Rakhi ka Chaata” or something, played over and over again showing us clip of how Rakhi Sawant slapped her boyfriend, cannot be considered serious right? Well they do, and here is a breaking news which will floor everyone.

A cat climbed a so called building or terrace and stayed there for 6 hours and that became breaking  news.

By the way how do you expect a poor cat to survive and climb down when such jokers are all around her with stupid cameras. And aren’t cats supposed to have 9 lives. This episode leaves me wondering if the next Breaking news on AAJ TAK would be “Chaat pe phase hue billi ne chuha pakda”, “Chaat pe phase hue billi ne 6 bacche diye, maa theek hai aur bacche so rahe hai” .

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Well here are 139 reasons which tell you that you are a pakka Bumbaiya, few of my favorites listed below.

• You speak in a dialect of Hindi called ‘Bambaiya Hindi’, which only Bombayites can understand.
• Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.
• You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.
• The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
• Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
• "Change" is "Chillar", "Ditching" is a "Kalti" and "Trouble" is "Jhol". (Maybe Vaat Lagli too )
• Every cab and rickshaw driver makes small talk with you. (Haven’t you heard, kya saab/mehensaab kitna traffic hai dekho )
• You are back to work next day after the city is bombed – Truly the spirit of Bombay.
• You call the cabbies and waiters BOSS
• When there’s no place to breathe in the trains but there’s place to play cards and sing bhajans!
• You keep spare candles in the kitchen just in case there’s a power surge.

Cheers to the spirit of Bombay. I miss Bombay a lot and want to be back, but hey there is a much more bigger reason I want to back in India and will go where she is, yes you guessed it right the love of my life . Cheers Keith.

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