TheAnand

I have been a lazy blogger for most part of this year for some reason. While initially it was due to work and getting the basics up at ayruz, these days its more like a loss of purpose in blogging life. The traffic to this blog has been fairly stable at 40,000 pageviews a month and revenue from adsense being a little over 5$ a day making it the dream no-maintenance blog in my network.

But at TheAnand, I do want to blog! Just that I am lost at about what to blog. As the traffic is stable, I cannot guess which type of posts interest you the regular readers of this blog.

I really have to get over this! Since the year I started on geocities, I would keep redesigning my web home every year. This year, I decided to get on a final makeover for at leastthe next 2-3 years.

That is when I found the talent in this awesome designer – Ben Jacob. Of only 18, this barely legal designer has done magic with my concept of a dream home. Now, my homepage and this blog has a single integrated design with all the elements I had wanted.

I am a internet junkie if not anything else! Spending hours reading blogs (about 250 of them) lurking around forums and not to mention Social Networks and the links shared on Twitter, Facebook and Stumbleupon. This has led to serious time management issues ever since I started working on my startup. I finally decided to fine tune the time spent online and this is my set of times for time management for the social media enthusiast.

I do not have words (being a blogger, its ironic!), but am really really thankful to each of you 2500 subscribers of my Blog. Its an emotional feeling to have been blogging for about 4 years now and being able to make a ton of friends online and meeting up offline through barcamps, blogcamps and smaller events like the CochinBloggers meetup and tweetups.

If you are a part of our community, please do get in touch with me at Yahoo!/MSN (getanand321) or by email and I will be happy to be your friend and support your initiatives online.You can also find me online at the following places, add me up and lets get aquainted!

I was kinda shocked to hear this when I first read it on a tweet link. Then I rushed over to Mashable to confirm the news. It sadly is for real. If you started off online in the 90s, you would have certainly heard/used geocities, the free hosting site with a really simple interface.

Sorry to dissapoint, but I am not dead!

Initially it was all the work that kept me busy, then I got angry, sad, frustrated and everything else. Guess all the feelings I have been supressing for sometime now just had to surface. So, I spent the last month or so looking for answers, finding out where I am headed to down the line.

The problem is simple. Internet money, as glamorous as it may seem has terrible headaches associated. I have been online for almost more than half my life and am seriously thinking of taking Internet as my career.

2008 was very eventful both in terms of personal life and in professional life. 12 months of rocking events which not only included memorable and historical events like organizing one of India’s biggest BlogCamp in Kerala and getting to meetup with some of the best personalities online and to more sobre ones like getting dumped, dropping out of college and other crap.

I was able to get back to my previous best of 2007 earnings and break all previous earnings after a slump in first few months of 2008. Proving my theory that living from internet income is a possibility and anyone can do it. (Though everyone won’t). And the best part was, I was able to move from a “work and earn” to a “setup and earn” passive mode of online money.

This post is pretty late considering the fact that the the laptop came home on July 4th 2008. I was pretty much locked on to the DELL when I wanted to choose a laptop and the only problem was choosing the model I wanted. With the help of their Sales dudes, I zeroed in to Vostro 1400, Inspiron 1525 and the XPS M1330. And backed by dads assurances, I locked with the DELL XPS M1330.

The laptop came home on the first week of June and thankfully for the first time ever in my experience with Bluedart Couriers dropped in the package in the first attempt itself. Presenting my first laptop

BlogCamps are fun! Not that I have been to any. Judging from how the recent barcamp went, it seems that BlogCamp will be hell lot of fun!

The concept of barcamps, meetups and unconferences are slowly catching pace in Kerala judging the crowd at the past 3 barcamps and junior barcamps. Funnily enough, my spell checker says barcamps, meetups and unconferences are not dictionary words. Heck, even blog is not a word in my spell checker!

I was wondering how to reach all the bloggers and to inform them about the event. One list acclaimed by many is the Kerala Blog Roll. Anyone knows any other directories where bloggers can be reached?

I always wanted to move out of Wordpress content related sites to something more fun and interesting to work on. RADIOez is the site that started off as a personal venture on my localhost containing all the stations I listen to on the internet. Then the idea bulb struck and I finally got the site completely up and running in the past week. RADIOez is my latest adventure into the world of online music stations. Its a aggregations of the various music stations on the Internet with stations arranged according to genres.

Its the holiday week, I expect the traffic to dip on almost all the blogs and online shopping and even offline shopping to pick as CNN reports that a chunk of US citizens are not done with the X’Mas shopping yet!

And as for this blog and me, I might get back to regular blogging if I can call it regular in any way possible this weekend or so once I am through with the exams on the 29th. So far its pretty good except for the mathematics which I am hopeless with the only consolation of “Better Luck next time!”. The others were much to my surprise pretty easy. Now all I hope is that the examiner does not correct my papers thinking about his ex-girlfriend who ruined his life!