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Was searching around in alexa for some traffic info and surprise awaited me there. Weblogs.us is ranked amongst the most popular 100k sites in the world! Here's the site traffic details: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=weblogs.us All of you from weblogs.us, go write a fine review for it!

via Om Malik's blog, Hewlett-Packard has joined the blogging bandwagon with its corporate blogs. Here are the others: Google, Yahoo, MSN

(via Carthik) Voice of America is available in Hindi! Nice to see Unicode standard being adapted widely for the Hindi web. I wonder when will this kind of thing happen to Kannada :-? atleast the present News papers should move forward to the unicode standard, paving way for easiily searchable text.

Carthik has made a list of very nice non-fiction books here: http://blog.carthik.net/vault/2004/11/21/non-fiction-books/ Check them out.

RSS feeds can now be customised with this service called feeburner. The customizations include amazon affiliate ads listing and lot more. The best thing from this service that I liked was that the service sends out RSS in the standard the user requests (atom, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, whichever). They also provide an applet that flashes out your latest blog entires that can be used on other sites.

Here's a nice Scottish gallery about Tipu Sultan, the tiger of Mysore. The write-up is available both in Hindi and Urdu. Also read about Tipu Sultan on english wikipedia, and French Wikipedia (Tipu Sahib, here). Also available is Kannada version of it. Read it here. ;)

Here's a link to stats and details of Languages spoken worldwide and the population that speaks them: http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html

Here's nice book to get started. yannf on #in.wikimedia pointed me to this nice book.

Update your bookmarks! hpnadig.com is now hpnadig.net! I finally made the decision to switchover since .com never suited for a personal domain. I also had registered hpnadig.info before I could know that .info domains are being given out for free! (Sigh!) But, thanks to dotster.com, I could register hariprasad.info, and hariprasadnadig.info for free, which point to the same site ;) hpnadig.net hasn't yet gotten resolved. So, you people can use hpnadig.info for the moment!