Mayuresh Kadu
I am a 30 year old CRM consultant living in the UK for the past 2 years. I am also a avid wikipedia contributor (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mskadu)
I first started blogging in Mar 2003. I already had asite, but i found blogging to be easier and closer to what i wanted out of maintaining site. Though i am a
coder by profession, i found myself coding HTML/CSS more than writing article. With click-2-publish attitude of the blog technologies, i realized it was
easier to concentrate on what i wanted to express rather than getting caught with how i wanted it to appear 
I maintain a couple of blogs:
a) My non-techie blog -This was the first blog i started on blogger.com (it wasnt owned by google then). By now, I was well-familiar with blogging having tried few other
blogging platforms like jroller and manilla. This blog reflects my non-technical side - which i am increasingly trying to inculcate since i realized that
i had been wound-up in technology for the past decade.
b) My techie blog :- This was my second blog. It is one of my most post-at blogs. It talks about things i keep interest in on the technology front. And its quite nice to look at retrospectively to see the effect of waves of new technologies on my thinking (open source –> linux –> java –> firefox –> etc).
c) My digital photography blog (Digital Captures) - I bought myself a digital camera when i moved to the
UK. Everything was new and i wanted to see it all. my camera has been a good companion. It has helped me record all those sites. I have recorded everything from how i chose my camera to my current trip with the
photographs. This is currently tied in to flickr.com which i had discovered about a year or less ago.
d) my marathi blog (Majhya chakaatya - meaning My gossip : I ran into Unicode a little while ago and thought whynot a marathi blog. Would give me the chance to work on my long rusty marathi writing skills. I also noticed that at the time there were only a handful of marathi bloggers. Thankfully now the picture has
changed. I put up a page on my techie blog to walk through the process of setting up marathi (or rather devnagari) blogs. Several people who read it went on to publish their own blogs.
I have a few other less frequented blogs.
Mayuresh views on status of blogging in India.
Blogging is catching up quickly in India. After all, we have a lot of say. With new found progress, there’s substantial interested in our voices as well. However, to date, most good bloggers are non-resident Indians.
Mayuresh tips for comming bloggers.
Its quite easy to get overwhelmed by the technology involved. This is a major factor in getting the elder generation to blog. I am trying very hard to show
them, how easy it has become to get started. As for the young ones, i am sure technology will not be a problem with more and more tools becoming avialable everyday. However, what is lacking is originality of content. There are several million topics i would like to see blogs on - from “sub-caste specific” cooking to home medicine; from grandma stories to photoblogs of
social work being done. Seasonal blogs to those speaking up against the sytem. I am waiting for the time when blogging will replace conventional
journalism.
I can help you
for techincal help, keep reading/ posting to my blog. I will be more than happy to help. I would like to see more and more regional blogs - especially in regional languages.
Mayuresh Philosophy :
Share the good things in life - especially knowledge!
Mayuresh Kadu
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