I am currently reading “The confusion” by Neal Stephenson, and I found in it a particularly perceptive passage
“These distinctions that you draw ‘tween noble and common, what is proper and what is not, seem as arbitrary and senseless to me, as the castes and customs of the Hindoos would to you,” Eliza returned.
“It is in their very irrationality, their arbitrariness, that they are refined,” d’Avaux corrected her. “If the customs of the nobility made sense, anyone could figure them out, and become noble. But because they are incoherent and meaningless, not to mention ever-changing, the only way to know them is to be inculcated with them, to absorb them through the skin. This makes them a coin that is almost impossible to counterfeit.”
What is BlogDesam.com
BlogDesam.com is a portal for Blogs(Weblogs) written in English. It incorporates listing of blogs, newfeed (loosely rss) aggregation, additional value-added services provided with a pleasant user interface. BlogDesam is one-of-a-kind in many aspects.
BlogDesam offers the following features, many of which are unique:
For all the listed blogs (without the need of inserting any code/link into your blog):
Instantly update and display of your post’s preview in the BlogDesam homepage.(Show me how)
Categorise every post of yours, so that your posts reach the right kind of (targetted) visitors of BlogDesam.
Additional benefits for the listed blogs that use the unique ‘Pathivu’ toolbar (needs one-time insertion of a tiny javascript code segment into the blog template):
Communicate automatically the arrival of new comment for a post to BlogDesam portal, and gets listed under ‘Recently commented posts’.
‘Ping’(inform) the aggregator straight from your blogs and instantly update the posts.
Display a thumbnail image along with the post-preview, taken from the blogger’s profile.
Enable a visitor to navigate to other recent posts written under the same category, through single-click.
Enable a visitor to get a pdf version of a single-post or multiple-posts of his/her choice, including image support.
Let the visitors rate a post based on karma-voting system, again through single-click.
Configure all the above features. e.g. if the blogger does not want the pdf facility or the rating of posts, he can switch these off.
Lastly, Hide the toolbar display completely in your post, but still retain the comment tracking facility.
Benefits for the visitors:
Keep minute-by-minute tracking of what is going on in the blogosphere.
Preview the posts by category and display/hide select categories of your choice.
Navigate through the archives of posts, by date, filtered by categories.
Search the listed blogs for any word, that can be extended to today, the past week, or the past month.
Get pdf e-books made instantly from the posts of your choice (requires blogger’s cooperation, though) for off-line reading/carry-in-your-palm-during-commute/emailing.
Is this the fellow who wrote Quicksilver?
Yes
Meaningless Life
Sorry for the linking to my blog, but these are some links you might want to check out.
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