Category: Design and Idealogy

  • Blogging Workshop – The blogger on the run

    Blogging Workshop – The blogger on the run

    I am going to be speaking at the upcoming blogging workshop at 91 Springboard, Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai on 27th of April, 2018. It was an impromptu session organized thanks to a lot questions being exchanged in our driving group from RTC (RoadTrippersClub). As I was answering questions along with Neeraj dada (Yayawar), someone suggested that we should meet once so that we all can learn. This was on Monday morning.

    Flash forward to the evening, we have the event creative ready and a place to meet arranged thanks to 91 Springboard. They were generous enough to help host the event, helping us to keep the session at zero cost! Nothing is better than lending a hand to spearhead learning and I wholeheartedly appreciate the 91 Springboard team at Bandra-Kurla Complex!

    Agenda for Blogging Workshop

    So here is the agenda for the workshop, where we have speakers like Divyakshi Gupta and Parampara, mights in their own right in travel and social media respectively. And then there is your’s truly, where I am going to talk about Content, Design and Video in the blogging world.

    Agenda at The blogger on the run Blogging Workshop
    Agenda at The blogger on the run Blogging Workshop

    How to register for this Workshop?

    The workshop is being organized by Road Trippers Club and there is no fee! Yes, it is free of cost to attend. If you are interested, then login in to RoadTrippesClub.com and register yourself today. Hurry, we only have limited seats left.

     

  • Save Water, Respect the Elements – one cutting at a time!

    Save Water, Respect the Elements – one cutting at a time!

    Livpure is a latest entrant in the purified water space (or at least in my knowledge), and they are doing a lot to promote themselves. What surprised me was this new idea of Save Water campaign! Oft ignored restaurant water is one of the targets here. Once you see the advert, you immediately connect it to your own experience at a restaurant. So let’s recap and see the videos, shall we?

    Save Water in Offices!

    While you can understand saving water, however it is important to also save water everywhere! Especially corporate offices, where one spends a good nine hours a day.

    Save Water at homes!

    It is a no-brainer. Often I have seen guests not fully drinking water in the glass. Of course, I am not going to frown on you if you ask for more water, so why not ask for half water if you do not want it full. 🙂

    Save Water at Restaurants!

    This is novel idea. The ideator should get rewarded for coming up with this brilliant campaign that connects with the audience the best!

    Have a Cutting Water!

    Now cutting water is an interesting take, however it will be difficult for every Indian to understand this language. Typical of Mumbai, the Cutting Chai is the quintessential half glass of tea that keeps the Mumbaikar going. The terminology and its use is spread across India, however sporadically.

    This is something that I already do at my home – carry a jar of water to a guest and ask how much should I pour. It is often under looked aspect, but thanks to Livpure’s campaign, I expect it to gain huge momentum. What they now need to do is to ensure that people do not forget it.

    How Livpure and other brands can help?

    One of the things with we Indians is that it is easy for us to forget that a small change will help our future. In spite of it being absolutely essential for our generation to do, we often go with the flow and it fizzles out in the long run. Brands like Livpure can keep the theme campaign going but ensuring they give us timely reminders of such instances.

    One of the things they can do is to allow people to share their own videos of ordering a cutting paani when at the restaurant. Of course, not as professional as they have shot. An incentive should keep the momentum going.

    How can you help save more water?

    Livpure has started a change.org campagin to save water in this unique way, calling it #CuttingPaani. I would encourage you to sign up for the change already, yeah! When you sign the petition, team at Livpure will be submitting the petition to restaurant owners and concerned government authorities to take appropriate measures for the implementation of #CuttingPaani

    Should Livpure extend the petitions to corporates as well? Absolutely.

    This article is written for IndiChange with IndiBlogger.

     

  • Indianomics TV: Watch top videos now!

    Indianomics TV: Watch top videos now!

    I have been posting videos on Indianomics TV since October last year. Starting with Tata Hexa review (very armature), I have now added 34 videos on various topics, predominantly Cars & Bikes.

    Here is a playlist I have created with all of the best performing videos. Do not forget to like, share and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

    Here is an overview of videos!

    1. Tata Hexa Sound and Music System Review

    Tata Hexa’s much touted audio system is awesome and among the best in a class even higher than where Hexa is positioned. The 10 JBL speakers produce clean sound that makes your ride enjoyable.

    Song played in the video is Dada Dasse Re from movie Udta Punjab.

    2. Tata Hexa Off Roading capabilities

    Tata Hexa is an upcoming car from Tata Motors. The video here captures its off-roading capabilities using various drive mode and hill assist.

    Read the full review of Tata Hexa on Indianomics.

    3. TATA TIGOR Unique Review – Indianomics | Infotainment, Price, Performance

    At invitation of Tata Motors, ~60 bloggers met in Delhi to review the all new Tata Tigor, the styleback car. Based on Tiago, Tigor is a compact sedan that looks absolutely great. The car looks stunning and had a lot of passerby interested in it! We even had a review on the fly from one of them!

    ‘This is not your normal review but an experience of Tigor Styleback event!

    In this video, we drive from Aerocity in Delhi to Gurgaon in Tata Tigor Petrol and Diesel engined cars – en route visiting the Heritage Museum. My co-partners at the media drive were the gorgeous Dimpi Sanghvi and Venkatramana Manoharan

    4. TATA TIGOR Acceleration – Indianomics

    Tata Motor’s new Tigor will be launched on 29th of March. This video captures the acceleration of the Tigor petrol engine car that I drove from Delhi to Haryana.

    5. A Day In Park with my die cast car models

    I took out my small collection of die cast models of marquee cars and here is the result. Few nice pictures and videos that is fun. Though the video has not clocked as much views, I personally get a great satisfaction watching my die cast cars jumping and getting crazy at a children’s park near my place.

    6. Why you should wear a helmet! Bhandardhara Accident live recording

    PS: The date was not set on the cam, hence 2016. Incident happened on 24 June 2017.

    Video taken by Shiv Vishwakarma, my friend who rode with us to Bhandardhara. We had stopped at a location where I had shot video previously, exactly when we saw this accident happen on the curve ahead.

    A Hero Honda CD 100 was hit by Red Maruti WagonR who took a long turn. Both were to blame, primary though was the Wagon R who took the wrong side. The biker was not wearing a helmet (common across in the rural side, like this one) and had his headphone on.

    It did not appear that his outer injuries were life-threatening, with no way we could identify inner impact. We stopped a few vehicles but no one was interested in helping. After about 4-5 mins, a small pick up truck came by and agreed to help take him to the nearest hospital. We ensured the driver of WagonR, an old man, accompany him to the hospital as well.

    7. Hemal Shah’s #HexaExperience | Indianomics Quick Bytes

    The video was shot last year by Tata Hexa team! All credits to Tata Motors to get out all the blogger videos out on their YouTube Channel. I do not know WHY I NEVER SAW THIS! They uploaded them two months after the event, may be that is why? Haha… here is uploading it on my channel for all my subscribers to see.

    They got my blog name wrong! The URL shown in the video is pre-2009 domain blog and I wonder from where they got it.

    8. Mumbai to Kerala on Himalayan and Dominar – Road trip to God’s Own Country

    So my fellow TGW wolf, Tyjo Thomas got 7 days off on a short notice. He decided to go on a solo ride to Kerala and back. When he shared it with us, I was quick to decide that I should go along. Thus, with 3 days to go, I started my prep for the ride.

    Subscribe to the channel, click on the bell button so you are among the first ones to watch them!

    Write up of this part of the video, Mumbai to Kerala, is now available at my blog. It has in very detail, the entire route plan and our experiences. Music Credits: https://www.bensound.com

    9. Mumbai – Kerala – Mumbai: A Photo Journey

    Pictures from our recent road trip to Kerala by Hemal and Tyjo on Himalayan and Dominar. Route map and other details are in the follow up video, including the epic Wayanad Choram

  • Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) may be setup in India

    Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) may be setup in India

    Ever since I have read that China is building a high altitude observatory, I was very jealous. Being built at Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China, it is designed to detect cosmic rays. I envy the pace at which China was developing its next generation of tools for scientific and space exploration. It only made me wonder why India has not much thought about it.

    Given that we are already advanced in Space exploration, but China is catching up and fast. The little Indian heart that I have, does not let me believe that India should be left behind, by none other than China to say the least. So, when I read about the TMT eyeing a place in India – I want to say snap it up while it is available.

    TMT or the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a not for Profit organization, which is working to get a giant, 30 meter telescope installed to observe the universe.
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  • The new race to win the 4G race

    The new race to win the 4G race

    After years of waiting, the 4G is finally here. Exactly, the Airtel girl has been yakking about it for ages now but the true arrival of 4G for me is now. It is when the competition starts off.

    Airtel made the first move, and others followed as soon as they can implement their own version on to their networks as early as possible. And as you all may already know, the pace of the launches are all keeping an eye on the Jio bomb that Mr. Ambani has been readying.

    The news of launch have been leaked quite a few months ago, and ever since this has been one race against the clock to gain advantage while Reliance is readying their arsenal. Airtel had a first mover advantage when they launched 4G, but how many new subscribers got added is something that is not very clear. Also, most of the additional connections have been the portable Wi-Fi devices – still a win for Airtel.
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  • Analytics: 2013 In Blogging – A Year that didn't change much

    So JetPack sent me an email with a report that did impress me. It was good to see a different perspective of your blog using analytics. There were things that really did surprise me, which included the fact that all my blockbuster (if you can call them that) posts were published before 2013, and the best one was published in 2009. It has also recommended that I write on topics that have performed well in the past. Well, good advice I say. 🙂

    Below is a snap shot of how Indianomics performed in the year 2013.

    Crunchy numbers

    The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. In 2013, there were 35 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 78 posts.

    The busiest day of the year was October 2nd with 209 views. The most popular post that day was A Place for Lovers & Couples in Mumbai.

    This report only shows data since you connected Jetpack.

    Mismatch

    Some of the things mentioned here are a mismatch and the report still is not bug free though. For example, it said I added 35 new posts in 2013, totaling the archive of my blog to 78 posts – but in actuality, my blog has 287 Posts in all.

    The 2013 JetPack report for Indianomics.

  • All new Chrome tab with Google Search integrated, and how it benefits Google?

    Google released an all new version of Chrome which includes major changes on the tab design and interface for Chrome Apps. The new change also brings Google Doodles for that country (google.co.in doodle for India) to tab and you do not have to open the site to see.

    With Ominibar, a lot of people (like me) missed the Doodle since they hardly access the search engine’s home page. This may be a good way to force them to see the Google Doodle. At the same time, I know people who do not use Ominibar for search. For them, a visit to Google.com or Google.co.in is a must. (more…)

  • Problems with Add-On domains on CPanel

    PS: This is a post which is a direct outcome of a discussion on IndiBlogger forum.

    The question was whether Google and other Search Engines treat Add-On domains differently? The direct answer is no, but it does affect your SEO efforts. The culprit here being CPanel, the trusted and proven Web Hosting Manager used by most of the Hosting Service Providers.

    I could not find a single post telling me everything I need, and I had to read through many forum threads to understand the issue. Hence I thought of putting it all together in a post, hoping to help fellow readers.

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  • Logo similarities… Force Motors and Fresh One Productions

    Interesting things happen when you least expect it. And this time, it was while watching TV. As some of my blog readers already know, it’s no secret that I have a craze for watching Infotainment channels. And while watching the end of program on TLC (Jamie Oliver’s 15 minute meals) I found a rather interesting thing in the credits.

    A Force Motors Logo?

    The logo of Fresh One Productions. The immediate link-up I had made was if the logo was as same as that of Force Motor’s 2005 Logo revision. It appeared to be the same as Force Motors at first look. My immediate reaction was to check the web and confirm my doubts.
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