Blogs I love : Third Umpire on Cricket 

by Ramanujam Sridhar, CEO, Brand-Comm


This is a beautifully written blog. The only problem with this blog is that Sridhar is not writing frequently. There is one post on November 10th, another on October 22nd  and before that in March 12th of 2009!! That is too infrequent for such delightful writing.

Take the latest post on "Thank you Steve Davies". It raises questions on why India is so bull headed in not accepting the UDRS. And, I have felt much the same. The argument that the technology is not perfect does not wash. The umpires are far from it. So, why not go with an improved version even if it might still have some flaws?

I completely agree Mr.Sridhar. He thanks the umpire Steve Davies who blundered through the series and  who could have cost India the series against Australia but for some luck going India's way finally.

Take a look at the other post talking about whether BCCI is up to it. Very good post.

So, my dear sir, why don't you write more often? Please do!!

Blog Review : Vaaram oru Alayam

It takes stupendous effort to put up a blog like this one. Going to temples; collecting information about the deity, the goddess, the temple tree and so on and giving a commentary also.

This is fantastic. It tells you how to reach out to a particular temple. It tells you when the pooja happens in that temple. Very very good blog for all the religious people and those who love to go to a temple. Serves as a quick compendium for all of those who love to go to temples.

Very good effort. Please keep it up.

Blog Review : Khana Peena

For a guy like me who has interests in restaurants, this is a delicious blog. It reviews all kinds of restaurants across the country though I think I saw a lot more from Mumbai. Photographs of those dishes, what was good and what was bad : all that is put in there. Serves as a good starting point for the foodies!

Very interesting blog.

Blog Review : Think Loud : Carnatic Music Raagas

Another master piece of a blog. He has taken different Raagas and provided film songs and a lot of typical carnitic songs in that raaga. He has given the lakshna of the Raaga also - the aarohan and avarohan of the Raaga also are given.

Simply outstanding. It is a joy to read the blog.

The icing on the cake is the number of song - links that are provided. All the links are from Mediafire so that it is very easy to keep downloading all the songs. It took me a very long time to down load a lot of the songs that I loved.

Keep the good work Sir!!

Blog Review : Raagas in Film Music

I enjoyed this blog. Very informative. Collecting so many songs, categorizing them under the different raagas..it takes fantastic effort. Not just in one language. There are songs from Tamil Films. From Telugu films. From Hindi films. Means that the author is good in these languages and also in spotting the Raagas.


And the collection is also very good.


Recommended for anyone who is interested in Raagas, listening to songs based on raagas and especially old songs!!

The Youtube links makes it even more interesting since we can actually "see" the song!!

Good effort!!

Keep it up!

Kapil's Korner : Blog Review

Kapil's Korner is a very nice blog. Interesting thoughts. Very interesting reflections. There are some reviews too. Nice photographs adorn the blog. Uncluttered. Simple to read. Flowing.

My pick of the blog posts :

1) the most recent "walk in the mama's garden" - superb photos...
2) 5 super tools which power my office PC - very useful...
3) Picks from Cannes Lion 2010 - I agreed with the selections. Most interesting ones...
4) 5 things I didn't know last week - I didn't know them either. If only I can put a list like this every week...!!
5) The wall project - the great wall of Mumbai - what an idea!

There were other entries as well which are worthy of mention - but I just stopped with my top 5 picks.

Thoroughly entertaining and really thought provoking.

Thumbs up for this blog!

Blog Review : 1 : Mohan's Blog    http://mohanbn.com/blog

I have subscribed to a number of blogs. Just out of sheer curiosity. So many people habitating the blagosphere and filling it with their thoughts and POVs. Looking at some of them and forming an opinion about some of them looks like a good thing to do. There are directories of top blogs. Top 10 blogs; 25 blogs and so on. But is there a good "blog review"? I couldn't see much of this. May be good blog reviews are out there somewhere. But, why not start one? If nothing else, I will end up educating myself!

OK. Let's start.

I am featuring today : Mohan's Blog. I don't know him I just chanced upon the blog. It looked interesting enough and caught my attention. I decided to subscribe the feed. I have decided to take that up for the first review as well.

The first thing which strikes me is that the blog does not concentrate on any particular 'topic' or 'niche'. Just like what I am doing with my blog here. It looks like a freewheeling dialogue and some of the posts look like straight from the news updates.

The look and the feel of the site is good. It has a nice flow to it. The only irritating thing is the moving image of the ad on the right side bar - which distracted me from reading the content. Being a marketing person myself, I guess it will always be a problem balancing the content and the ads.  Because of so many widgets being features, the blog did look a little crowded. But I guess, that is ok. Nowadays, it is better to have the widgets out there than not to have them at all.

In terms of content, only a few posts were original content. Everything else, seemed to be 'news' content. There were a few 'Nano' related content I found in the recent entries. However, the politics related content seems to be fresh and original and made interesting reading.

The other noticeable thing is the activity level. It is pretty regularly updated, even if it is updated with 'news' value posts. Every 2 or 3 days, I could see posts there. There were a few comments also. Comments were in fact talking positively about the news value posts. I must say that!

I did enjoy the most recent post : Redefining the Electoral Rules

The author makes a clear case for why politicians should not be allowed to contest in multiple constituencies. I couldn't agree more with him.

All in all, a decent blog. I would give a 3 out of 5 for it. (My own blog would come much lower!!)