Hello World

Ok. So this is my first post... hence the title!

So, why start now?

One of the reasons being that blogging has clearly emerged as one of the most efficient ways to share knowledge, wisdom, experiences and opinions and therefore to give back to the community.

During the last several years, we all have witnessed fundamental changes that the search engines have brought to the way we all look for and consume information on the internet. I've been mostly on the consuming end in this ecosystem, and must say have been feeling somewhat guilty lately. Furthermore, like Avinash Kaushik (a must read blogger btw if you are into web analytics), I hope to follow one of Guy Kawasaki's principles: "Eat like a bird, and poop like an elephant".

Some of the guidelines that I've promised myself include:

• These posts must provide some value to someone. So no "I walked my dog last night" types of posts (they belong on twitter).
• These posts must not simply be links to other articles and to the other posts elsewhere. They must have their own value (with possible references to other relevant articles of course).

These posts are mostly going to be about software and programming and about technologies, tech companies and such topics. The focus might shift at times, as I dabble into other areas or may have something interesting to say about something else. I'll be "tagging" these posts appropriately in order to categorize them into these areas.

Hope you all will enjoy and benefit from these as I have from several of yours.