Interview with Jai Arjun Singh

‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch’. This is the line from one of the famous Poems called ‘Jabberwocky’.  If you are wondering what has this got to do with our interview today, allow us to introduce one of the earliest bloggers in India with his blog, popularly known as Jabberwock. Jai Arjun Singh is a freelance writer known for his  succinct reviews and opinions on movies and books and has just finished a book about the cult comedy film Jaane bhi do Yaaro for Harper Collins, and is currently editing an anthology of cinema-related essays for Tranquebar.

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BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Apr. 13, ’10

Tangy Tuesday PicksThe IPL has always been known as Lalit Modi’s Baby. Once the Baby grows up, you cannot expect to hold complete control over it. A few days back @madversity had tweeted ‘IPL matches are not fixed. They just undergo minor Modi-fications!’. The recent controversy surrounding Shashi Tharoor and Lalit Modi suggest that. If you are bored of reading about Sania-Shoaib and Tharoor-Modi, then why not read the best from the Indian Blogs?

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BlogAdda’s Spicy Saturday Picks – Apr. 10, ’10

Spicy SaturdayCRPF men fought till bullets ran out‘ May their souls RIP. Violence is the expression of physical or verbal force against self or other, compelling action against one’s will on pain of being hurt, says Wikipedia. After this attack there is one question on everyone’s mind – Do you still sympathize with the Maoists? Indian Bloggers have  a point of view of their own. We are here with different points of views on various topics and we pick the best out of them. Here are this week’s Spicy Blog Picks.

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Interview with Aspi Havewala of Aspi’s drift

Camera, Ready, Action! Take 1. Cut Cut! Kya yaar woh drift barabar nahi aaya! Once more! Take 2. I wonder if you know, how they live in Bollywood, you gotta see it and experience it then you know you have to go. Perfect!! Kya shot tha yaar! Aspi Sir, Tussi great ho! Now can we have 5 minutes of your time for an interview with BlogAdda?

Yes, We have interviewed none other than Aspi Havewala. The director, the scriptwriter, the music director and all in one of the popular blog Aspi’s drift. He has been gracious enough to spare some time for this interview with us. For all the fans of Aspi, here is the interview unplugged.

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Optimizing Google Adsense

Google Adsense is one of the most popular programs used to make money from blogging. Millions of bloggers publishing Adsense on their blog always wanted to know how to increase their earnings from Adsense. Usually the CTR (click through ratio) of Adsense is from 0.5% to 2.5% for blogs having 1000 or more page views per day. But if we can increase CTR we can earn more from same number of page views.

So here I would like to share my ideas and tips on optimizing Google Adsense i.e. how to increase CTR. Please note that these ideas and tips are based on my own experiments carried out on 20 blogs.

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