After declining a ton of invites to attend Tweetups, Wiki-meet ups, Aandolans, Hunger Strikes and what not, (you see I am so busy! Like I am the KRK of real world :D ) I finally chanced upon a Blogger Meetup page on the Indiblogger website! I have always, like ALWAYS, wanted to attend one of these blogger meets.
You know we keep on hearing stuff about these bloggers, who get a chance to publish books, who make trillions of dollars (yeah, that is like 1 followed by a loot of zeros! :D ) by just writing on their blogs, but never see such real life cases! (Or atleast I didn't come across any in my life). Finally, I can cut that one off my bucket list! :) I never thought people make so big with blogging! I have been blogging for 6 odd years but even earning pennies with my blog still remains a dream! Sigh!
Close to about 150 odd bloggers turned up at the Indiblogger HP Originals meet, and I must say there was a great mix of people from all walks of life! There were writers, poets, army men, students, software guys, air traffic controllers (!!!), entrepreneurs, full time bloggers, government guys - you name it and we had it ! I can proudly say, that I added about 20 new blogs to my google reader list today! :D
After coming back from that meet, I came to a conclusion - my blog is as haphazard as my life!! People are so focused and particular about what they write on their blogs (and what they do in life :P ) ! And similar to what constitutes my life, this blog is also full of mindless junk! :P Nothing is going nowhere! :D Whatever that means..
I even came across some very good new blog/website ideas during the meet! There was one guy who sells one liners to T Shirt companies!!! Although, most of them were typical techie bloggers, some were writing healthy recipes, one was creating a list of best dating sites :P (i guess he was joking!) , one was giving consumer rankings to different new products, and then there were a couple of girls who were into make-up/fashion blogging! Sigh!
And then there were some like me, who write about anything under the sun :D. Jo dil kare wohi likho - Ki farak painda hai yaara! :D On a serious note, we guys - the personal blogger category - rocks! Period! :D
Frankly speaking, I had a lovely afternoon, thanks to Indiblogger and HP, and would love to attend their meets whenever I get a chance!
After coming back from that meet, I came to a conclusion - my blog is as haphazard as my life!! People are so focused and particular about what they write on their blogs (and what they do in life :P ) ! And similar to what constitutes my life, this blog is also full of mindless junk! :P Nothing is going nowhere! :D Whatever that means..
I even came across some very good new blog/website ideas during the meet! There was one guy who sells one liners to T Shirt companies!!! Although, most of them were typical techie bloggers, some were writing healthy recipes, one was creating a list of best dating sites :P (i guess he was joking!) , one was giving consumer rankings to different new products, and then there were a couple of girls who were into make-up/fashion blogging! Sigh!
And then there were some like me, who write about anything under the sun :D. Jo dil kare wohi likho - Ki farak painda hai yaara! :D On a serious note, we guys - the personal blogger category - rocks! Period! :D
Frankly speaking, I had a lovely afternoon, thanks to Indiblogger and HP, and would love to attend their meets whenever I get a chance!
Wo kehte hain na - We blog, therefore we are! :D

7 comments:
I missed it :( You should have posted that you were going..maybe I could have tagged along :(
And hell yes, Personal Blogs Rock! :)
Also, whatever you write, is straight from your heart, and if you insist is is haphazard,people love you for the haphazardness :) Atleast i do!
Yeah...It was fun...almost everyone got pendrive and I am loving T-shirt by #Indiblogger which says.
Indian by birth, blogger by choice :D
wow :D
mera bhi mann kar raha hai jane ko :)
and yes Personal Blogs Rock Oh Yeah \m/
Those T-shirts sound like real fun. I wish we though of a similar trend for our annual meet!
Nice to know that you added 20 new blogs to your Google Reader list... hope mine is there too... if not, please add the 21st now! :)
Arvind Passey
www.passey.info
the personal blogger category - rocks! Period! :D
I agree :)
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