Exceptions..

Your blog is not a place to merely post links to other blogs, but couldn't resist posting this one here.

How to Do what you Love

Where's the Globe Warming ?.

Certainly not in UK. It's snowing in October. First there was this travel warning for Birmingham in office, then there was the BBC weathers snow icon. We ignored it religiously as it has failed us before.

But by 8:00 in the night came the call. "See outside, do you see anything?", asked Murali. I couldn't just spot the empty street. "It's snowing here" he was excited for sure.

Too bad snow didn't came out way, but it will, eventually. knowing the English weather, it could be tomorrow , next month or even next year. But it feels like the winter has already begun. I could spot an inch of snow on top of the cars coming from up north.(In UK, such feelings are mostly short lived, come next week, we might see the summer weather again)

Anyway, the Global Warming books are not going to sell well this year. Why don't someone write a book on Global cooling or going with the current state of affairs, Global warming Recession ?

Blogs. So 2004 like ?

Came up on this article on Wired today which argues that blogs are so...hmm .. 2004. This, just a day (and a rather rainy one) after i was trying to convince narthana that goining to shops and shopping is so 2000 like to escape the weekend shopping.

The arguments are plain and simple. What made blogs attractive is the ability of having personal opinions on issues from people who are independent of the media circles. blogs became extremely popular but the mainstream media soon turned to blogging. When a media firm employes full time bloggers to blog on issues, it is difficult for the part-time, blogging-for-fun armatures to match up to that.

Wired argues that on mediums like Twitter, where one post can contain only 140 words, the twitters (if I can call them that) are in level playing field with the pro's.

The argument looks good first, but I don't see why the media moguls can find some expert twitters who can focus full time and make better twitter trails to beat the armatures.

I agree that maintaining a blog on US election/Financial crisis and beating the big players would be a day dream. But personal blogging is here to stay.Where else can we publish the personal stories and opinions so quick and relay it to the world?. And for aspiring writers like me, where else do we write and get the feedback?.

So Blogging is gonna stay and make me happy. meanwhile shopping out too will stay making the other half's happy !.