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April 14, 2009

A lot of things have been happening at An Unquiet Mind. A journalist quoted me in the Hyderabad edition of The Hindu. AUM is now on Twitter here and you can see my tweets in the sidebar.

muologoI have been chosen to contribute to MakeUseOf.com on a trial basis. I have loved MUO since a long time, and I am eagerly looking forward to writing about “Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips”.

MakeUseOf.com has 54K+ subscribers, and is part of PC Magazine’s “Top 50 Blogs”.

This is my first foray into professional writing since 1996. Wish me luck! :-)

PS: Do you like the new About Myself?

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  1. April 14, 2009 at 9:32 pm | #1

    wow. best of luck. i’m sure you’d not need it, but it’s the least I could do.

    • April 15, 2009 at 8:58 am | #2

      :-) Thanks, asuph! Nice to see you here!

  2. April 14, 2009 at 9:53 pm | #3

    Wow…this is great news! Congrats, and good luck!

    The new ‘about me’ is very unique. It is a good idea, but maybe too abstract. Maybe you could also throw in some text to go with the cloud? Unless this is the amount of information you want to share.

    • April 15, 2009 at 8:59 am | #4

      Thank you! Yes, let me start with this much level of sharing…maybe I can add more specific clouds later? ;-)

  3. Anand
    April 14, 2009 at 10:26 pm | #5

    Saw your updates on twitter and checked your blog. Nice stuff dude. will make it a point to visit it regularly.

    Haven’t seen the old ‘About Myself’ but liked the new one.

    Congrats on being quoted in the news paper.

    You should add MakeUseOf.com in your ‘Blogs I Read’ list ;)

    • April 15, 2009 at 9:01 am | #6

      Hey Anand, welcome to my blog! Hope you do visit regularly.

      Oh no, MakeUseOf will be in a special category of its own! :-)

      And btw, sorry for not being able to chat – I was in the process of signing off for the day. Hope to catch you online sometime.

  4. April 14, 2009 at 10:53 pm | #7

    महेंद्र, हार्दीक अभिनंदन! :-)

    I didn’t know MUO, neither do I tweet, but I checked it out and I like it.

    • April 15, 2009 at 9:25 am | #8

      प्रिय प्रियांक, धन्यवाद!

  5. April 14, 2009 at 10:57 pm | #9

    wish you all the luck Mahendra.
    am sure you are going to enjoy it as much as your readers do – go, ride

  6. April 15, 2009 at 12:46 am | #11

    Best of luck :) Actually I think your writing could very well be featured in most Indian newspapers or magazines. I’d recommend Tehelka and Caravan, both of which seem to seek new and fresh writers most of the time

    • April 15, 2009 at 9:29 am | #12

      OMG, His Highness is here! :-) My gratitude for your kind comments, and coming from you, they mean a lot!

      I’d never heard of Tehelka and Caravan newspapers! Oh well, I’ve enough on my plate already, but thanks for the tip. BTW, what’re you doing at this hour commenting on others’ blogs?! Again, honored to have you here, Sir.

  7. April 15, 2009 at 10:25 am | #13

    Best of luck for your new innings! :)

    • April 16, 2009 at 11:06 am | #14

      Poonam, you are mis-spelling your own name? :-)

    • April 16, 2009 at 8:09 pm | #15

      Thank you, Pooanam! :-)

  8. April 16, 2009 at 5:32 pm | #16

    Best of luck Mahendra! I am not at all surprised you are on to this, as it seems just the thing you would do and I am sure you will do great! And you are on Twitter too! Looks like the whole world is on Twitter!

    • April 16, 2009 at 8:11 pm | #17

      Thank you, Nita! :-) I remember you had encouraged me to write more ‘how-to’ tech posts for non-techies, and this venture is very much like that. So let’s see how it goes.

      I have followed twitter’s growth since the last two years, but kept away from it until now. Still learning how to make it useful rather than annoying!

  9. April 17, 2009 at 7:20 am | #18

    So, as a national newspaper says, you write humor? And what is this AUM, and MUO, etc?
    Thinking about it is giving me PUS.
    (Peptic Ulcer Syndrome)

  10. April 17, 2009 at 7:21 am | #19

    Oh, I get it now (tubelight switched on)….

    • April 17, 2009 at 9:49 pm | #20

      Doc, consider this to be the nerds’ response to all those medical acronyms that’ve been thrown to us ordinary citizens over the ages…MD(x), PH(x), and so on….:-)

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