A Dummy's Response to Technorati Fav Exchange

Everyone is talking about technorati favorite exchange, So I thought I should also contribute a bit. Well everyone is using this "Add it to my Technorati Favorites" feature to encourage his/her blog readers.

Darren started questioning this exchange program and was first criticized by Maki.

Well so far I have read following views on technorati favorite exchange.

• Maki's View
• Darren's View
• My Real Favorite Blogs
• Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment: Whores, Prom, and Pig’s Blood
• Responding to Technorati Faves Criticism

• Ruffled Feathers on the Top 100
• What I accidentally learnt about Programming
• Favourites Exchange, my Thoughts!
• Problogger Agrees - Technorati Gaming is Bad
• The Technorati 100 Not So Hot?
• The Technorati top 100 superficial list
• Technorati Favorites and The Cheaters Who are Cheating the System
• The Sad State of Technorati’s Top Favorited Blogs

The blogging geeks at top are having their reputation at stake whereas dummies like me are enjoying this experiment.

You can promote it in anyway. Its democracy on the blogosphere and its perfectly legal. But the question here is " Is it Ethical?". People who are really "deserving" to be in the list will not be in the list if the exchange program is a success. But what is that defines "deserving" to be in the top 100 list? More and more people should like the content of your blog.

Well someone adds you to his/her favorite only if they like the content of youtr blog. Well those who are liking the content of Maki's blog are adding it to their favorites. Well he may come up in top 100 list with his technorati fav experiment but Its for sure that dummies like me are not going to get into that list in near future.

Well certainly it will be an ego-booster for me as I see now that 20 persons have favorited my one month old blog, but if I ask a question to myself that whether I deserve that, I may find it difficult to find an answer.

But we can take this in a different way that our blog gets more exposure to others and we get know about other blogs

Its now a cool controversy which has become the talk of the blogosphere. Some are critcizing it and some are appreciating it.

Well I'm just a dummy and I don't know whether I'm right or wrong but I feel that technorati can overcome the experiment anytime by following some simple techniques. They can change the algorithm of their ranking startegies. They can rank a
blog by

actual number of faviorites =
no. of persons who have fav the blog - no. of blogs that have been fav. by the blog's owner

well offcourse its not foolproof but if a dummy like me can come up with something like this then they are "Technorati". They don't have to worry much about this. And may be they are enjoying this controversy. They may be planning to relaunch it as a social-networking site:p.

Tips on Cracking Madras(Chennai) University for Dummies

Madras University is said to be one of the most respected university in India. If you have a degree from Madras university, people will have a presumption that you are a Brainy. But the irony is that its VERY easy to pass an MU exam.

I was a computer science student of a private college affiliated by Madras University . In the first semester, I was quite confident about getting merit in all the subjects. I studied quite hard and wrote the exam to the perfection or that’s the way I used to write all my other exams……by the way… Did I tell you that I was a CBSE student? Yes I was and that’s the catch. In CBSE board you are supposed to understand a subject and then learn it. But its quite different in Madras University.

So, as you might have guessed that I didn’t score well in my first semester exams. Well it was among the top 5 in my class, but that’s not what I was expecting. So I was quite upset and moreover I fell for a chick in my class so it was for sure that I was going to flunk in next semester. I wasn’t attending any classes. The next exams came, I wrote them and was looking for some cool excuses to escape from my dad. But to my surprise I scored a more than decent set of marks in my exams.

Then I started looking for the reasons that lead to such a discrepancy :p.

The reasons were what I’m going to write now

1. Improve your hand-writing. Yeah its true for every university, so you have to improve your handwriting. Well I have a very bad handwriting, so wasn’t scoring centum:p. But sometimes, bad handwriting gives you an advantage.;)

2. Have good drawing skills: I noticed that girls are scoring better than guys. Its because they used to draw scenery (he he) on the first page. Their first page is quite impressive.

3. Bring a set of sketch pens to exams : Give all the headings, question numbers, subheadings, with sketch pens. Also, underline the definitions and formulas with sketch pen. Use a good color combination.

4. Fill up the answer sheets: You have paid for it, Isn’t it?. So don’t hesitate and use all the space that you can. Increase the font size. You know what I mean.;) try to leave as much space as you can, but be sensible in that.

5. Draw page borders : It well help decreasing the space on the answer sheet as well as improve the aesthetic value of the page.

6. Answer question cleverly: Just be specific in putting the first few lines and last Para. Most examiners will read only that.

7. Try to read the examiners mind : Yeah its quite difficult. But you have to do it. Try to understand the factors that can be used to confuse the examiners. I will post them later.

8. Be superficial : While answering a question don’t go in deep. Try to split an answer in as much portions as you can. Try to find as many sub headings as you can for an answer. That way, you will be able to waste more pages. ;)

9. Summarize all your answers : Always summarize your answers. Do it in the beginning as well as in the end. You can summarize it in the beginning by giving the lsit of headings and subheadings and you give your personal comments in the end.

10. Study!!: These tips might be useful in some circumstances, but study your subjects properly so that you can make the most out of it as you have a career to pursue.