ThoughtfulChaos

Yawn. Saturday morning. Woke up late. 11:45. Did everything at fastforward. Reached Cafe 100 a bit late at 1:20 for the Delhi Bloggers' Meet.

Had a great time. No fixed agenda. Freewheeling discussions. Tatoos to Technorati. Interesting people. Interesting topics. Decent food. Good coffee. No butter chicken as promised.

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Delhi Bloggers' Meet.
1:00 PM.
Saturday, 2nd September.
Cafe 100.
Connaught Place.

New bunch of bloggers. Should be an interesting experience.

I did not have any expectations when I went to the 11th Delhi Bloggers' Meet. I just wanted to get out of the home-office-home routine and go someplace else for a change. I not only got to go see nice places (IHC and TC) I also made a few new friends.

The late-latif-blogger award of course goes to me for blogging on Tuesday evening something that happened on Saturday evening. I can only parrot out the usual excuses of me being a bit lazy and being very busy.

As I said I did not have agenda when I went to the meet. I didn't know what to expect, what I would be doing, how long I would be there... nothing. I reached IHC a few minutes before time and went to the amphitheatre. The IHC is a very fundu place. It reminded me of IIM Ahmedabad. Simple architecture but at the same time very impressive. Large open spaces, hardly any direct sunlight and lots of plants made it a visual treat. There was a blogger there, an engineering student, who took many pics of IHC itself. I do not recall his name but I sure hope he puts some of those pics online. The amphitheatre was double-booked and for some time we were searching for alternate venues. Finally we just decided to assemble on some steps some distance away.

There were around 30 people for the meet. And boy what a diverse bunch it was... bloggers and non-bloggers, serious bloggers and totally casual ones, technology bloggers and bloggers blogging for social causes, young bloggers and middle-aged bloggers, dudes in jeans and dudes in kurtas... you get the picture. The special guests for the evening were Bill Thompson, Julian and Gareth from BBC were on an India tour to know more about technology and India. Nidhi from WebChutney had also come to spread the word about the to-be-launched online reality show called OK Tata Bye Bye.

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One thing I always regretted about Pune was not knowing the city well. Yesterday I was thinking the same thing about Delhi. Even though I have been here for more than 2 months I hardly know the place. And that’s when I decided that I will do something about it.

That is when out of the blue I came to know about a Delhi Blogger's Meet scheduled for this Saturday. So this is a package offer... I get to meet some bloggers in person and I get to make new friends (hopefully).

Gareth and Julian from BBC World Service Technology programme Digital Planet have come to India to know more about the culture of blogs in India and they will be attending the meet. Bill, one of Britain's leading authorities on blogging and Net activism, will also be present. And oh yeah everything about Bill, Julian and Gareth has been swiped from another post and I really do not know much about them or what they do. Nevertheless I am sure my first blog meet is going to be very interesting.

Probably the only thing that could spice up this event even more would be a sting operation by one of my all-time favourite reporters :-)