This is a follow up post to my last post. We did a second podcast with the same team and also had Mohan the lead singer of Agnee. We talk about the broken business model of music. Listen to us (Aditya Mhatre, Veer and Gaurav), who have the view from the stand, taking on Mohan who of course has the view from the pitch.

Incidentally, this was to be the first episode of a new series at Indicast. We dubbed it “The Business Geeks”. Incidentally, it also turned out to be the last.

Listen Online (Approx 35 mins)

My first podcast came out last week. It has Gaurav, Veer, Aditya Mhatre and me talking about startups and mobile advertising. Gauravonomics has done a good job summarising it so I’ll just point to the link.

Last Saturday was Gaurav’s birthday party where I bumped into many other bloggers including some “A listers”. While I haven’t bothered to figure what an “A lister” is, there are obvious connotations to the title. The lame introduction of “I too blog but ahem last I blogged was in sept” was well… lame. So I’m back. Let’s see how long does this stint last

A post on the party appears here.

I’ve migrated to the Blogger Beta for culinary ventures and also trying wordpress with Vanity…

So one sees changes such as labels and some changes in format. Hope it adds to the readability. On the downside, I can’t comment on non-beta blogger sites!

The labels made me realise that the content is quite sparse right now. Will address it in next few days.

Something that did catch my attention in the last session at BlogCamp were two attempts on blogging for social responsibilty.

First was Osama urging people to blog about our villages etc as we travel around. He has a point. There is a lot of inequity in India. On one hand we have farmers committing suicide. And on the other hand we have the super rich in cities. In addition, there are billions of dollars flowing into the country for the poor. The attention of both the super rich and the donations etc is dominated by the mainstream media which covers the rural India only if there are suicides, famines etc and that too at a superficial level. Why can’t bloggers attract a more a continual attentions to the conditions before they become as extreme as suicides?

I travel a lot and fall somewhat in the category Osama talked about. But my travels are limited to the metros. Still, I’m going to talk more about the children that one sees begging on the streets of India. Don’t think it’ll have any impact but that’s a bad excuse for doing nothing.

Second was Scott carney talking about Open source journalism. He has good intentions but the message was not clear. For a niche medium to emerge, ONE blog has to take lead and build readership. then others will converge around. IMHO, asking people to contribute early on invites the sceptics more than the passionate and kills the idea.