Saurabh Garg on The New New Thing

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There was I time when I would boot my blog editor on Blogger and post about every small leaf moving with every strand of wind. And then there came a time when I would post things that are truly monumental.

As we increasingly live in a digital world where every bit of data and information you put anywhere on the Internet can be searched and indexed and retrieved easily. And moving with the times, I need to change the way I blog.

I will no longer create a new post on every small update. Now its about one place for everything related to a particular topic.

• This might mean several edits on the same post.
• This would mean trouble for people reading my blog from RSS readers.
• This would also mean comments going out of context. This would mean more trouble.

But I think the trouble is worth it. A post would no longer remain a small rant on things. It will, over a period of time, become a long page with lots of details on a particular topic. It will become Saurabh’s personal Wikipedia. In fact I had realized this long back and hence the pbWiki.

Also I have realized that juggling multiple blogs is very difficult. Apart from contributions to mutiny.in, pluggd.in, venturewoods, I manage quite a few blogs. My photoblog, personal blog, new new thing, Friends from Creativeland, value investing and probably a lot more blogs that I am forgetting (yes unofficial MDI blog, MML blog etc.). It is very difficult to juggle between all these. You tend to put a lot of effort on creating one and promoting it and as a result you ignore the other ones to die their natural, slow and painful death.

What do you think? Should I post on every small think? Or one large post with lots of data and information works?

Of the two ideas that I am working on, one of them is n00b.in. Without getting into the details on n00b.in, this is a small announcement that I have launched the n00b Labs blog. The n00b Labs blog will have notes, developments, announcements, links, fan-mails, air rockets and other related things there.

Please do check it here.

Have renamed the blog as The New New Thing.

Why?
1. “Saurabh Garg talks” was really an inappropriate title. I am trying to collect interesting things here and “talks” is a boring, overused and abused word. Had to move away from it.

2. Although I never cared for what people make of this blog, I have realized I should. This marks a fundamental shift in the way I perceive my blog. Earlier I was writing because I needed an avenue to let out my thoughts. I have seen that blogging is an awesome way to meet new people and get more ideas. More and more people around the world are looking at blogs to express their thoughts and share what they know. Everyone has a publishing power that they did not have. Everyone has the tools to be able to gather audience. Everyone can now make fans. Time is appropriate to start using blog for professional reasons. And hence the change.

3. Why “New New Thing” and not anything else? Since I am always in pursuit of interestingness and that new thing, I thought this would be an apt title for the time being. Until I find the newer, better and more interesting name. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Things might change rapidly, slowly, in small steps but the they do change gradually. What is interesting today might now be interesting tomorrow. In all probability it will not be. No one can predict what would be hot. And hence the name The New New Thing. And as I have said earlier, I might change it again. (Advisory: Name copied from the book The New New Thing by Michael Lewis. Brilliant book. Must Read. My review is here).

I am wondering Technorati has this awesome advantage of having all blogs link to it… !

They asked me to put a link to my Technorati Profile if I wanted to get higher ratings. Here I am. Can I have more visitors now please?