Sanity Insanity and Moi

Hey do drop in a line saying which was your fav foto… Foto source (Mine and Sandil)
Comment on each too..

1) An ardent blog-a-lorean

2) Its Arun guys …

3)E-Governance the panchayath way

4) Laurel and Hardy or rather Hardy and Laurel

5)Micro Microblogging

6)The Mutineers

7)bar[camp] over = camping after the bar

Awaiting comments

Two days of exhilarating bliss, a Techies-in-wonderland, final nail in the coffin for the saying “Too many cooks spoil the (what ever)“

Just that everyone had a lot of fun learning. A new definition to fun learning. It was my first barcamp and i’m already looking forward for the next one. Owning to the less number of women participants, there was this opinion of having it at Jyothi Nivas College or Mt Carmel…

I met some very interesting personalities there made hell lot of friends.

So till the next Barcamp in November

The E-governance Collective did it the traditional way, Outside!!!.
The Panchayath Way

Hey we had free t-shirts. and i’m standing way back there.

Its almost EOD, and lots of sessions and talkings later the energy is no less.
The day started with an announcement that eod will feature real trips to real bars looking fwd to that.

The Startup and bloggers collective had a fair amount of turn up.

Right now what got over was a jumping animated Umesh talking about Promoting the your blog. Some points to be noted

• Shameless Self Promoting
• Making people comment by making the posts such that people feel like commenting
• Make girl friends and make them read it
• Have a partner in crime who comments for every thing on your blog
• Write good and if you cant wait till you get the rythm
• Start controversies
• Respect your commentors, put a comment back.
• Visit the commentors blogs
• If its a girl comment on her style/foto if she has one

Right now its Main Stream Media vs Blogging by Saurabh. Talking about how effective is MSM news and Blogging. Its all based on trust when a person decides to go by your word or opinion. The discussion is still going on …

Himanshu Sheth(Seth) is one of the noted bloggers in the blogosphere. He is one blogger who didnt link anything, just wrote about entrepreneurships and startups.
Some interesting news about him that could give you motivation on starting your blog - He is not quite a ladies man, but he found love in a fellow blogger and they are one big happy blogging family.

Here it goes

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Enjoy

Heated up responses going on at the Blogger’s Collective
Topic : Bloggers reacting to the way news is getting reported by the media in Bangalore or put it this way What does a blogger does better than a news paper report?
Discussion brought about by Subbu of IndiaTogether
Interesting points

• Bloggers have no affiliations, reporters are like ‘biased’ in a way
• Bloggers write about anything that affects them (Trees felled at Race course road)
• Bloggers dont go at the whims and fancies of the editors, they are simply free
• Publishers should have a community of trusted bloggers, from which they can have unbiased and real news
• Bloggers needs to be driven and motivated to sustain blogging and get readers
• Blogging community has its own eyes

Other sessions happening

• Ruby
• Photo Collective
• Un-Band
• Creative-Commons

You might wanna check out - Un-Band Collective, where they are going to tell you how to have an entire orchestra through your lap top
Photo competition is active now, the search for the best foto in BCB4 (Just a reminder)

Now attending - How to help blogs into search engines - the KISS principle by Thejesh

(Watch out for a video interview of Thejesh soon)

• Investors meet going on at L22
• Content Management going on at L23
• Bloggers’ Collective going on at L11

Various “field” collectives are going on in and around the venu

Whats coming up - UI Design is going to happen outside the L11-L12 rooms.

What to watch out for later in during the day?

• Hope fully gaming collective happens
• An interview with Himanshu Seth coming soon at blogosphere

and its lunch time and i’m running … Yes its free food here!!!

Last of the Mutineers Tina is here with her father

My session on Firefox Plugins is at L12 at 5:00pm i guess.
So if you are up reading this, drop in. There is definitely something that we could learn from each other.

The cooks have started cooking and i’m one of the cook.
Its the only place where too many cooks makes and excellent … whatever!!!

So day 2 and after an informal intro into all the sessions that were happening, the discussions have started.

Where am I? I’m at the Blogger’s Collective
Whats happening now? Listening to Podcasting using Mobile phones by MrmWrites.com(sorry dude i donno your name)
How is it? Hmmm ok …

The Mutineer’s(Swetha, Sandil, Woke, Ujj and me) are here wearing their Mutiny t-shirts and causing head’s to turn Way to go mutineer’s

Ok as i finish the session is over and the next one is - Security of Fotos by Bikram

The organizers did an excellent job, they got a place for us to get together, a place to talk, but thank god they were not strict at anything. It was like giving every one a kg of rice to cook at the end of the day we had pulav, curd rice, biriyani, fried rice, etc etc etc and some invented ones too … (the true spirit of a barcamp)

The hang over of attending my first ever barcamp is showing its side-effects on me. I’m here killing my roomies with the verbiag, talking about the uber-geek and uber-geek girls that i saw (wish i had their numbers) and i’m still up blogging about it.

What!!!,Dude you missed it! You have the your last reason to be alive, its there agian tomorow. Attend it!!!

The day started off announcing that we are all Indians, and hour late. SO what lazy people like me who slept off were able to make it on time. of the 550+ (the figure i heard as word of mouth) people who attended it 70% where first timers, there was a guy who was attending his 4th barcamp and another his 5th. Interestingly there was an educator who was interested in knowing about the technologies and dropped in to learn.

The crowd pulling collectives were mainly Investors Collective, Internet Collective and Startups Collective. Wow!!! indeed people are money minded. (these had people more that they could ask for)

The ones that had a room full of participants were Bloggers Collective, Ruby Collective, Mobile Collective and almost all the technical collectives.

The jovial collectives were Photography, Biking, Eat out at Bangalore and Un-Band

The Un-band not-so-bad-band had the evening for themselves when they performed a live jamming session for a packed audience. I enjoyed the flow of the music. You guys rocked.

What to expect tomorow? - I’m sure about Bloggers’ Collective continuing and may be i might have a collective on Firefox Plugins. But as i said planned collectives were killed and new ones were born at the spot, so just be prepared for anything.

May be someone might talk about SEX! ohhh

Live jamming session at the auditorium.

The performers are rocking.

I’m starting to do do head banging. They were too good

What didnt happen? -

• Hacking night was called off as just 2-3 people were there who wanted to attend it..
• and there was no Gaming collective … lemme see what i can do tomorrow… i just cant watch the gaming collective getting killed .