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If Google traffic went down along with PR, you would not be laughing

When Google reduced the PageRank of several blogs and sites which had participated in pay per review programs, bloggers whipped up a storm.
It was unfair, and a solid hit on the revenue opportunities for the upcoming blogger and all that.
All that is true. Some of us were bored, some were outraged, and many went campaigning [...]

No WordPress Sponsored themes – because Google says so

Matt of WordPress does not like sponsored themes. Google does not like sponsored themes either.
You know what Sponsored Themes for WordPress are. They have a link or two at the bottom or in the sidebar, linking to the sponsor’s website. The sponsors have, of course, paid the theme designer. They get a backlink from every [...]

One and the same

The Nandigram 101

I have been waiting for this for a while: A complete analysis of what has been going on in Nandigram.
Greatbong has written exactly that – what are the root causes, the role of Trinamool and Maoists, the role of CPI(M), Buddhadeb and the Bengali intelligentsia.
This is not the kind of stuff that you hear [...]

Pearl Gupta: Killed by twin Delhi evils

Street harassment and rash driving. Two of Delhi’s most well-known evils. Both out of control. They came together yesterday to kill Pearl Gupta, a 17-year old first-year-student of Aditi Mahavidyalaya.
This is what happened according to Parul, her friend who was walking with her when it happened:
“Barely 20 metres from the college gate, a scooterist [...]

Your lovely Weekly Communal News Bulletin

Everything is so communally charged in India these days. Genius observation, isn’t it?
1. All those historical wrongs that have to be righted
2. All those religions conversions that have to be done to add to the flock
3. All that past ruling-class status to be regained
4. All those westernizing influences to be purged
Ha, what a beautiful Saturday [...]

Pseudo secular media and Nandigram: What they are saying about Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

The ‘pseudo secular’ media is keeping totally quiet about Buddhadeb and Nandigram. Not a peep out of them. Some of them, in fact, are reporting that it is a ‘reaction’ to the ‘action’, initiated by violent Maoists and the CPI(M) retaliation was spontaneous, and entirely natural.
Not!

According to this screenshot, taken at 11.05 PM on 14th [...]

Google Adsense impression reports vs Mybloglog click stats

Hmm.. website stats programs are never accurate. They are not meant to be. After all, no one is still clear about exactly what a visitor or reader is!
But sometimes you find such variations that it is quite crazy to reconcile them.
On this blog, I use Mybloglog stats to figure out what is going on. I [...]

Wordpress Magazine themes – I like!

Seriously, running a site like DanceWithShadows without a proper CMS is a pain. It has been bothering me for a long time. I have been exploring how to integrate the site into a CMS for a while – and that quest still goes on! But occasionally, looking at Magazine -style themes for the WordPress blogging [...]

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the Modi of West Bengal

There, I said it.

The scale may be smaller in the case of Nandigram. But the basic fact is the same. There was violence by a large group against a much smaller group. There were deaths, more on the side of the smaller group. There was looting, there was rape. No one knows the details; Buddhadeb, [...]