9 comments

1. 1amit varma on February 16th, 2007, 2:09 am › Link
   

   Thanks buddy. It isn’t a group blog, though, but a website with three group blogs, one solo blog and one daily crossword. And I’m not a conservative blogger, but a libertarian one. Pah!

2. 2manish on February 16th, 2007, 3:47 am › Link
   

   Fixed the first. Didn’t say you were a conservative, my friend.

3. 3manish on February 16th, 2007, 5:54 am › Link
   

   Amit knows SM well, and of the crossword, Abhi says:

   … it is pretty cool.

4. 4Amardeep on February 16th, 2007, 6:22 am › Link
   

   I don’t know about Abhi, but I thought it was cool. I just did a post on a desi crossword master (Kiran Kedlaya) about a week ago.

   Amit-ji, the template looks beautiful. The only thing you are missing IMHO is comments.

5. 5amit varma on February 16th, 2007, 10:13 am › Link
   

   Amardeep, thanks! One of the blogs on the site, Rave Out, does have comments. But I don’t on my personal blog because I simply don’t have the time to handle all the comments I’d get, and find that my time is more efficiently used posting rather than monitoring comments. Also, I’ve had really bad experiences with trolls. I will open comments on occasional posts on IU, though. One step at a time…

   Aroh, yep, I know about Sepia Mutiny being not quite an Indian blog, but I thought I’d take the liberty. I seem to have come out unscathed!

6. 6MadMan on February 16th, 2007, 1:25 pm › Link
   

   Thanks for the comment on the template, Amardeep. Makes me feel good. :)

7. 7manish on February 17th, 2007, 7:10 am › Link
   

   I co-founded SM. It’s pan-desi and based in the U.S., which is what Abhi is trying to express. We don’t need to rehash the flames.

8. 8Abhi on February 17th, 2007, 8:33 am › Link
   

   I was quite sure that he wouldn’t mind that. You know it does provide free publicity.

   “Aroh.” You know one of the reasons why I like Amit’s blog? He doesn’t allow comments on it. Consequently he doesn’t have to deal with the nutjobs and wankers (ahem) that any of the high traffic blogs have to deal with. I’ve never met Amit and I don’t know his background but I think he is a journalist and a blogger full time (please correct me if I am wrong Amit). He probably leaves comments turned off to protect his sanity and to prevent negativity from people such as yourself that might ruin what he loves. For me, I spend about one hour a day on SM these days. I have a career outside of SM that I love way more than blogging or dealing with anonymous assholes people such as yourself. “Free publicity” means nothing to me. What can I do with it? Do you see any ads on SM from which we profit? Does SM help my career somehow? In my profession publicity actually hurts.

   So please, crawl back under your rock until you have something intelligent to contribute to the grown-up conversation. Thank you and that will be my only comment on this thread.

9. 9amit varma on February 17th, 2007, 11:49 am › Link
   

   Abhi, thanks! I’m a full-time blogger in the sense that I spend more time on it than anything else, but not one in the sense that I earn my living by doing other things on the side. The revenues from the blog are worse than pocket money, and I do it because I love doing it, and dealing with comments just takes up too much time, and I can’t deal with a lot of the negativity out there. I know I miss out on a lot in the process, but that’s a tradeoff I’ve accepted.

   Aroh, I don’t think SM needs “free publicity” or traffic from me, they’re a bigger site than mine and have a fantastic community going that I’ve always envied. I imagine all my readers would be familiar with SM, and don’t need redirecting.