Dumble – Auto tumbling Delicious links
Deepak wrote a little (but awesome) script some time back for his tumble-blog. It pulled bookmarks from his del.icio.us account and converted them into a page of super links, with commentary. He called it Dumble – Delicious + Tumble-log.
I liked it and asked him if I could borrow the script for SelAm and my delicious bookmarks. The dude not only gave me permission to do it, but he did the whole thing himself, and that’s how we come to SelAm/Dumble.
The beauty of Dumble is that it not only links, but it automatically converts links to a flickr photo or youtube video into the actual media. Right there on top of my Dumble page is the photo I shot a little while back. On delicious, it is just a link. Here, it’s a photo with the commentary. Brilliant, I say!
I post something or the the other every day to delicious. So you might want to keep a tab on SelAm/Dumble.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan – published author – part two
My second piece in BTW magazine. This time too, it’s travel. And a place that’s especially close, both physically and otherwise. Thalankuppam beach.
(P.S. The full story is about 3 pages long – there’s a small arrow at the bottom of the page (barely visible) – use that to read the whole thing.)
The best blogger contest.
It’s been decided. Journalists win. So says the Mail Today paper.
Journalists are the best bloggers because they write well, write often, and write for a living. Others who open blogs realise they run out of ideas in the first week itself.
Right. OTOH:
The best bloggers write better, reason better and – this is the most important point – are more intelligent and knowledgeable than the average journalist. I would also say that they are better on all those counts than even the best journalists, but that is debatable.There ought to be no mystery about why bloggers are more knowledgeable. Journalists often claim that bloggers are amateurs, but then, journalists are professionals only the art of writing, while bloggers are often professionals in the subject they are writing on. I would wager that it is easier for a professional to pick up writing skills than for a professional writer to gain an understanding of a subject well enough to write a 1500 word article about it.
Bad, bad Indians. No Karma for you.
What say we sum up this post?
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Really, how can you Indians be so selfish? How can you build a car that will let more of you travel safely from place to place and, gasp, actually enjoy your commute? Hasn’t your ages-old religion with 33,000 gods taught you that you shouldn’t put material gains before spiritual growth, even if spiritual growth means discomfort and poverty? Bad, bad boys.
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Word!
“Vested interest in lies and falsehoods”
I think I know a few people who fit that description.
Sleeping is a luxury that only those poor of ideas can afford.
For over 5 months now, I’ve had trouble sleeping. Insomnia is frustrating and tiring. Tiring not because you don’t sleep, but because your head, your brain is constantly thinking of the many things you can do. A story idea you want to pursue. Photowalks you want to hold. Ads you want to write. And posts that you want to blog. Such as this one.
It’s unnerving how clear and lucid your thoughts are in the middle of the night and no one, save the odd mosquito, disturbs your ideas.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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