Blogging a 'Bloggerminator'
Outlook’s ‘inhouse sceptic’ TR Vivek fancies himself as a bloggerminator. Last time his pen spewed this venom: The Indian blogging community (or blogosphere, as it likes to call itself) is…Continue Reading →
My school leaving certificate spells my name as Soumyadip Choudhury (সৌম্যদীপ চৌধুরী), some call me The Chaiwallah. I work and live in what is generally referred to as Delhi NCR (work in Noida, stay in Ghaziabad).A part of my work profile labels me as a journalist (of the Internet kind) and my areas of specialisation includes technology. The Internet is the primary area of personal and professional interest and I also build products for the Web. I am currently with Network18 as Technology Editor and Product Manager at IBNLive.com. In over nine years of employment, I have worked with HT Media, Career Launcher, The Times Group, NDTV and Network18 in various capacities. As a chronicler of popular culture via advertising, movies, photos and more, I maintain a popular blog, Cutting the Chai, since 2005. The blog also doubles up as a digital archive of India's popular culture.Have been hard-wired to everything tech since childhood, I have a penchant for making and repairing (and occasionally breaking) things. My wife and family suspect that I am secretly married to my laptop.Was born and brought up in Shillong and that is the place I still call home (in the physical world).
Outlook’s ‘inhouse sceptic’ TR Vivek fancies himself as a bloggerminator. Last time his pen spewed this venom: The Indian blogging community (or blogosphere, as it likes to call itself) is…Continue Reading →
Remember those horror stories which granny used to tell you. The ones where the soul of one enters another and…
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Of late I have been observing a debate on the blog arena regarding the enabling/disabling of comments on one’s blog. Some even find the comment moderation thing a little out…Continue Reading →
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Anthony’s post led to the acquisition of this book. Coincidentally purchased when fanatics were bursting bombs elsewhere in Delhi. Chetan…
Yesterday, after a hard day’s night (amongst many other things I also managed to fall into a manhole) I sat before my newly resurrected PC (it went dead again) and…Continue Reading →
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