Anwin – Me Myself and the World Around Me

It was a great day for me and the IndiBlogger team. We were all excited about the first of many IndiBlogger meets in 2009. And like last year, we wanted to start with the Bangalore blogger community.

This time we did not get a larger auditorium but a smaller one at Microsoft, Bangalore office. However, it had a nice ambiance albeit the not so good acoustics. We start at 3:20 PM and kicked off with a welcome speech from Anoop.

Then I was pushed on to the front and was asked to start off the 1 minute to fame session. Although unprepared to start I did manage to get a few laughs from the bloggers when I talked about my Idiot of the day blog and one of its posts, with a little bit of prompting from Anoop. I wasn’t listening to all the bloggers, I am afraid, since I was busy welcoming fellow bloggers into the meet.

Then Girish from Microsoft talked a bit about Microsoft BizSpark, a Microsoft initiative for startups and entrepreneurs.

And then started one of the highlights of the evening, the discussion on blogger rights spearheaded by Sandil from Mutiny.in. The bloggers were inerested to discussion what we can write about and what could be legally interpreted as maligning indivuals or organizations. The press had a very active interest too in this session.

Next came the Windows 7 session taken by Vic and Vijay. It was a good session with a lot of interaction from the crowd. We had to stop the session after a long time for account of the pizzas getting cold… hehehehe .

After a bit of food in our stomachs and our energies revitalized we got back to what we came for, talk and discussion about blogging. For the very first time our “know your readers” session was a blooper. And I digress.

This was a time when Aarif talked a bit about a software he has developed and very popular on the internet. This is a software called Process Manager for Windows – PMW – which is an efficient and better alternative for your Windows Task Manager. Do try it out if you are computer savvy.

The last session was an impromptu session on blogging in general. Sherin, a blogger who earns money through his investment blog stole the show for most of the time. And then a question was asked about self hosted blogs which I had a lot to say. After all, I had used most of the blog platforms with domain names in these past years. I have promised to put out a document that will explain how to easily buy a domain and host it through a blog provider like Google or Wordpress.

And then we winded up and with happy smiles all around we left for home and endless parties!

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