Comments on: IndiBloggies—Campaign Poster

By: Please Vote For Me at Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

Please Vote For Me at Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:21:30 +0000

[...] Oh yes I will leave the “popular awards do not matter to me” and the ” I only blog for the pleasure of it, acknowledgement be damned” spiels for after the competition. Just like I did last year. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:12:00 +0000

sorry dude. inspite of me voting for you, you still lost. but 2nd isnt bad either. i would congratulate you for that. btw, i recently discovered your blog and spent a whole day reading all the archives. this is undoubtedly the best blog i have ever read.

By: GREATBONG

GREATBONG — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:57:00 +0000

@DkJariwala: Thank you…now I know whom to bother when I get stuck.

By: dkjariwala

dkjariwala — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:26:00 +0000

GreatBong,

I know Photoshop, so if you need any help using that software or help in making a banner, drop me an email at dkjariwala AT gmail.

By: GREATBONG

GREATBONG — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:42:00 +0000

@Jabberwock: Very enlightening. I didnt know that this cartel thing was this serious (ie to the level of abuse) —I kind of thought it to be good natured friendly banter. Its true that it is other people who label you but sometimes you do label yourself too—–I mean there are blogs where the bloggers call *themselves* feminists or liberterians.

@Bonatellis: I have moved on since the Indibloggies—its just that right now I am learning Photoshop to make a decent banner for the Calcutta blog. Its kinda taking more time than I thought—at this age, new technology filters through a bit slower than one would like.

By: Bonatellis

Bonatellis — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:26:00 +0000

Jai: I guess u got the spirit of the comment ALLL wrong … but anyways
after all, English is a language of understatement, as they say.

By: Jabberwock

Jabberwock — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0000

I don’t usually like commenting on other people’s comments, but have to say this. Bonatellis: the either-you-are-with-us-or-against-us way of looking at things applies a lot more to the people who have been heaping tasteless personal abuse on the libertarians. Seems to me those guys are the real “cartels” (with all the mafia implications of the word). Also, that bit about “allying with any blog cartel to boost your daily hits” is a pretty tasteless remark in my view (and one short step away from the T R Vivek School of Self-Righteousness) – but well, I suppose you have your reasons for it.

Arnab, whether you want to be labelled or not is immaterial. If people want to label you they’ll go ahead and do it anyway. It really is laughable. I’m still not even completely sure what the word “libertarian” means but I’ve got plenty of comments and emails accusing me of sucking up to Amit V and the “cartel”. There’s just no way you can stop people from second-guessing your motives.

By: Bonatellis

Bonatellis — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:39:00 +0000

bhai, voting complete … ebaar egono jaak

By: GREATBONG

GREATBONG — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:36:00 +0000

@Bonatellis: If it helps me to win, I can be liberterian, socialist, anarchist, manuvaadi, feminist: any label is fine. But seriously I do not want to be labelled—my support for various political schools of thought are merely issue-based.

By: Bonatellis

Bonatellis — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:52:00 +0000

so are you saying you are not a libertarian?
Mind your words now, you’re being watched … there could be that either-you-are-with-us-or-against-us way of looking at things

consider this part of your post-win interview :p