at January 26, 2006 8:01 PMAre you low on traffic? Do you need to feel really relevant on the blogospheric scene? Want to make a name for yourself and get on the pages of Desipundit? Here is a how-to!
1. Memories, memories and more memories - the more childish, er, child-like, the better. Throw in a few relatives and a few more childhood friends for extra impact.
2. Write about how Indian policies suck. If that doesn’t work, whine about how Western people always point out that Indian policies suck. For bonus points, say Western policies suck even more.
3. If you are a man, write about how women are nuts and if you are a woman, write about how men are idiots. If not, try to write about reconciling the two sexes.
4. Bash someone. Even better, make sure they are a group of logic Nazis!
5. Whine about how Indianness is not being understood by the West.
6. Whine about West trying to understand and celebrate Indianness.
7. Whine about Western people asking too many questions in an attempt to understand your Indianness.
(Put your name in huge, big letters all over your blog to make sure they atleast get that right when they do decide to feature you!)
update: Here is an example post that illustrates my points and really, really should get linked ;)
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I don’t get this post. Do you have a problem with desipundit?
Posted by: Niraj at January 26, 2006 5:37 PM
Niraj, I think Desipundit is an awesome endeavor. Sometimes it just feels like they focus a lot on memoirs and relationship advice. They also seem to have a lot of posts with people whining about something or the other the West doesn’t get about India. I was just trying to express it in a funny way. I guess it didn’t come through much :)
Posted by: shanti at January 26, 2006 8:01 PM
whoa! Neha accidently attributes your post to ‘Madhoo’ and you instantly analyze our linking behavior…a lil comment on that post would have sufficed.
But you say, you were trying to express it in a funny way, so I guess everythingz ok. BTW personal posts get linked more often because people seem to click them more often than they click on other ‘serious’ or political posts. Also, the fact that Neha and Ash who mostly link personal posts are more prolific in linking than others might be a reason.
Posted by: Patrix at January 26, 2006 10:29 PM
Patrix, I thought the phrase “logic Nazis” might have hinted at my profound (non)humor that I was getting at in the post along with some snark. I am glad you are not taking it to heart :)
Posted by: shanti at January 26, 2006 10:32 PM
LOL Shanti.
BTW personal posts get linked more often because people seem to click them more often than they click on other ‘serious’ or political posts.
Emm … whatever happened to ‘the best’ in Indian blogosphere.
Posted by: cn at January 27, 2006 12:56 PM
Shanti: All the things that you listed to get on Desipundit… isn’t this what you find on 99% of all the blogs anyway? If desipundit decided to not include these posts, it’ll be very very hard to find something to post there.
Posted by: Parag at January 28, 2006 8:35 PM
cn, personal posts are not among the best in the Indian blogosphere?
Posted by: Patrix at January 28, 2006 10:14 PM
:))
Posted by: Uma at January 30, 2006 3:03 AM
Haha. Good one. I liked. And I tried all of the rules at:
http://theunknownindian.blogspot.com/2006/01/getting-linked.html
Posted by: Deepak Shenoy at January 30, 2006 6:34 AM
Correction. If you are feeling low on traffic and need to feel relevant in the Indian Blogosphere, you compose a post on how the Cartel has a stranglehold on the Indian blogosphere.
Mummy, you need to feel really proud on how your first child has turned out :)
Posted by: Ravikiran at January 30, 2006 8:46 AM
You forgot a very important one :-)
Write a post about IIPM.
Posted by: Varun at January 30, 2006 8:55 AM
Uma :)
Deepak, hilarious post :)
Ravi, true and thanks :)
Varun, very true - feel free to mention “pony-tail” for extra points ;)
Posted by: shanti at January 30, 2006 9:11 AM