Amitabh Bacchan's Life

I am fascinated by Amitabh's blog. It gives a rare insight into one of THE most popular person in India's life. He writes at least 1 post a day at the end of the day, filling it mostly with what he did on that particular day and what he might be doing the day after. From what I read he loves his family and misses them constantly because of their/his schedule. He feels elated when his house is full with family and friends. He is friends with Madhavan and Akshay Kumar. Herez a snippet from his post today:

Akshay, of Akshay Kumar, of Singh is Kingh of Chandni Chowk to China, of father to delightful little Aarav, Aarav, that moves with the constant expressive smile that conveys, he has just committed some serious mischief, that Akshay, has called at 5:30 am ! He is in Toronto at 2:30 am !!

‘CCTC is premiering at London, Leicester Square on the 12th, tomorrow night, shall be honored if you could come and join us.’

I tell him I shall.

‘Delighted Sir ! Just don’t bring your brains and thinking cap along !!’, he ends. I give him assurance.

He loves and has enormous respect for his parents. He is very humble. Very diligent. He apologizes if he misses to write one day. Eloquent. Simply a very good read. If you are not following him on his blog, you are missing on something good. Go read it.

Top 15 Political Web Sites by Total Unique Visitors

This chart is from an article in WSJ.

Blog/News Aggregators

If you need to keep track of what's the latest buzz about in different blog worlds these are the must view sites every day (multiple times, if you need to know everything like me :)).

• Politics: http://www.memeorandum.com/
• Celebrities: http://www.wesmirch.com/
• Technology: http://www.techmeme.com/
• Baseball: http://www.ballbug.com/

All of them are owned by the same group/person (Gabe Rivera) and most likely have a very similar algorithm.

List of Celebrities Personal Blogs

• Aamir Khan
• Rosie O Donnell
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Pamela Anderson
• Alec Baldwin
• Meredith Vieira
• Salman Khan
• Moby
• Mary Kate and Ashlee Olson
• Bill Maher
• David Beckham
• Mark Cuban
• No Doubt
• John Mayer
• William Shatner
• Donald Trump
• Tom Green
• Mariska Hargitay
• Anna Kournikova
• Kanye West
• Kathy Griffin
• John Cusack
• Al Roker
• Brian Williams
• Anderson Cooper
• Deepak Chopra
• Michael Moore

Great American Hypocrites

Glenn Greenwald's new book is titled 'Great American Hypocrites'. He wrote a post today detailing how similar John McCain's foreign policy is to George Bush's. At the end of the post he blurted out this paragraph, which I think maybe a summarizing his new book. Here it is:

We must stop supporting autocracies, as we pursue hegemonic policies that make us increasingly dependent upon Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan. Democracy is the linchpin of peace, yet our enemies are Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian hardliners supported by large portions of those countries' populations. We should continue to interfere in Middle East countries (thus ensuring increased anti-Americanism) and simultaneously spread democracy (thus ensuring the election of anti-American political leaders). We must rein in government spending while pursuing hegemonic policies that we can't remotely afford to pay for, etc. etc.

Consumerist

Consumerist is a very popular blog where consumers grievances are posted in public view for 100s of 1000s of ppl to read. That includes the PR persons of big companies. So, if you thing you were treated bad or duped by any company, or any other issues with any company, write a letter to Consumerist with all the details. If the editors post it on the site, consider your problem solved.

The site also has tips on how to escalate issues, emails of the executives of the companies, tricks and a lot more. So, check it out. If you'd like to read the success stories, they have them tagged at Success-Stories.

Nirali Magazine Blog

I stumbled across this blog in one of my regular random browsing escapade's. Looks like it concentrates on Indians across the globe. It is an interesting blog. link

Once Upon A Time - By Arthur Silber

i love arthur silber. just read one of his blog entries, i am sure you will be touched.