Vijay Basrur

Mobile Blogging

There has been a long silence on this blog. While there are many excuses, there isn’t a good one to pick.

Trying to blog via the wordpress app for BB. Hopefully I will get more regular at this.

I am taking a week off starting Saturday and hoping to strike off 2 things off my bucket list. Attending Oktoberfest & an U2 concert. Woo Hoo

New clothes for my blog

So I decided to get some new clothes for the blog. I love the variety of themes available for WordPress. Infact the whole WordPress ecosystem makes blogging a treat.

I bumped into Blog Oh Blog a few weeks back and I returned there yesterday to look around. I spotted the Statement theme and loved it. So I adapted to the theme yesterday. I still have some bells & whistles to go. But those will come over time. I liked the clean layout and the 2 sidebars which allow for a lot of external content.

Till the time I decide to get some more new clothes, Statement it is.

Death Threats due to Blogging

Some guys take blogging way too seriously. Michael Arrington is one of them. But he loves blogging about start ups and suchlike. And he has created a huge ecosystem of startup reporting at TechCrunch. Infact every startup would give an arm and a leg to get covered by TechCrunch because that would be the best form of publicity. TechCrunch boasts of a followership, only a few can match.

But yesterday was the first time Michael came out with the bad side of blogging. He blogs about getting spat on his face because he was too tired to meet an entrepreneur. He also refers to a death threat he received sometime last year. He is planning to take a month of to take a backseat and relook at what he wants to do in life.

Jesus. This is freaky! I had read about Om Malik getting a heart attack sometime late 2007. Ironically TechCrunch has a post about it here. And Om talks about his learnings about the stress of blogging and starting up here.

This does throw a lot of interesting questions on the problems in store for serious bloggers.

I think blogging is great way to publish your thoughts & ideas. The moment you try and exploit this for a commercial purpose, it is bound to stress you out. The level of stress is probably directly proportional to the success you aspire.