Sanity Insanity and Moi

Saunday morning .. yaawwwnnnnnn!!!! .. But its the day of Barcamp… no sleep… So i dragged my ass out of bed.
Its the day of CAT exams and by the time i woke up, at around 8am all my roommates had in fact left for the test. I have to say that i was one of the first persons to reach.
After a quick lunch with Abhishek Thakkar , who is having this talk on SMS Gupshup, the SMS way of twittering, i’m back in front of the discussion boards.
What is with the WiFi???- It keeps failing at times, on systems for no reason at all and then comes up all by itself.
Now that people are finally arriving and rooms are getting booked up, i see energy again in the atmosphere.
Bloggers decided to have discussion at D4 - 11am. It turned out that Sky was already there. She was trying to set the time zone and the WiFi connection on her laptop. Then people started dropping in thinking its some discussion and Vola!!! everyone is giving a self intro.
Then Nitya of Muziboo, complained that generally indian bloggers are reluctant and unwilling to help someone. She quoted her own experience as an example.
They started the Muziboo and she personally approached bloggers and asked them to do a review on the site and its features. But unfortunately of the 100+ people that she asked only 2 did it for her. This eventually became a hot topic and there indeed some discussion on that. People started dropping by with the noise level that we created. So finally everyone was sorry for the state of affairs and promised to help each other, starting with Muziboo.
Before we knew it was Lunch time and off we go to hog like pigs …

I’m Speaking too

Getting the WiFi connection

The Mutineers …

E-Governance Session

Post Lunch ..

The bloggers collective has started at the L21 room (Cappuccino).

Amit Agarwal - Digital Inspirations, is talking on monetizing blogs. He is having no slides, no laptop, no geeky gadget, just talking. He is the first professional blogger in India.

So one advice from him - don’t use TextLinks in you blog as it wont help you in the long run. Rather than reblogging, write an original stuff at least once in a while, coz reblogging and linking will make people leave your site and go after the original stuff.

People are just walking into the collective and the strength is building up.

Now amit is getting swarmed with questions…
And i’m still looking for the 2 guys who approached me b4 lunch for the blog review.

After a lot of confusion, which is apparent to any barcamp, we have kicked off officially. What is barcamp without confusions ….
As on the collectives part, there is a windfall of discussions happening.
Now i’ve the wifi finally up and connected with 2hrs of struggling, heregoes the first post of the day.

Now after a discussion by Swamy on Intro into Blogging for non bloggers. That was a good start.
Now its Gurugeeks by Navjot, he is bringing all the minds together under one community. He calls himself the - crazy eccentric web geek. He is desperately calling for some help in building up the site and the community.

So anyone who is willing to help him.. please go ahead.

I’ll be doing a blog review - through out the day. So if you want you blog to be reviewed and have suggestion, do contact me at 99860 12830

Here is the cool GuruGeeks.

Barcamp Bangalore is back. Its BarCamp Bangalore 5 - Winter Edition at IIM-B.

After the success of the Collectives in the last barcamp, this one too is made as a collective one. Registrations for the collectives is also open at this link :

http://barcampbangalore.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4