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Kerala Tips starts Kerala News & Commentary

We are starting a new site which deals exclusively with Kerala News. We only cover "news that matters" and all news items will contain editorial comment. User comments will be disabled initially.
We are also looking for citizen journalists who want to be part of the Kerala Tips News Team. If you are interested in writing [...]

Kerala Blog Directory

Want more visitors to your blog? Here is a feature on Kerala Tips which will give you more visitors. I have started a Kerala Blog Directory, which will list categorized blogs on Kerala. You can submit your own blog with detailed description.
Kerala Tips is currently having 1000 visitors per day and by adding your blog [...]

Win fabulous prizes by participating in Kerala discussion

Kerala Tips is completing 6 months this week. With over 225 posts and 400 comments Kerala Tips is one of the leading blogs on Kerala. Currently over 1000 visitors come to this blog daily for latest in Kerala news.
Getting latest updates from Kerala Tips is easy. You can either subscribe to the feed or use [...]

Introducing India Tips

We have recently started a new site called India Tips. This will be very similar to Kerala Tips, only difference being the focus area. As the name suggests, India Tips will deal with Indian news, blogs, photos and much more…

KBA 2006 - Voter registration closes today!

Today is the last day for the Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 voter registration. I have extended the voting (not registration) for two more days since there are a number people yet to post verification code. So the voting will close on 17th March and no further polling will be allowed.
Currently a total of 168 users [...]

Introducing Kerala Blog Rolls in Malayalam and English

From today, we are introducing Kerala Blog Rolls both in Malayalam and English. These will provide a summary of latest posts on the blogs listed in our Kerala Blog Directory.
The blog aggregators currently run every 10 minutes and ensures that you always see the latest posts.
The blog rolls will be changed to category level [...]

KBA 2006 - voting open for 9 more days only

Here are some updates on the Kerala Blogger Awards 2006.
1. More than 100 voter registrations in 6 days.
2. Around 70 users are approved so far and 38 votes are polled.
3. http://jocalling.blogspot.com/ is leading with 11 votes and http://sonyvellayani.blogspot.com/ is closely behind at 10 votes. http://www.varnachitram.com/ is at the third position with 7 votes.
I am aware that the voting process is cumbersome. [...]

Kerala Blog directory updates - 4th March

Last week a couple of new blogs were added to Kerala Blog Directory. These are,
ചാരുകേശി (പി. ശിവപ്രസാദ്) - A collection of poems. Sivaprasad (ഇത്തിരിപ്പോന്ന കവിതകളിലൂടെ പാഴാങ്കപ്പുഴനീന്തുന്ന പലരിലൊരുവന്‍) is living in Saudi Arabia.
കാഞ്ഞിരോടന്‍ കഥകള്‍ (പൊതുവാള്) - Poduval writes about stories, poems etc. with a Kasargod touch!
Scaling New Heights (Brijesh Nair) - Brijesh writes his thoughts on Kerala and [...]

Starting Malayalam Blog

Dear Kerala Tips Readers,
I am starting a new blog in Malayalam.  It will not be a translation of this blog. Main focus of the blog will be my thoughts on kerala life, books and people. Posting fequency will be less than this blog.
കേരള വിശേഷങ്ങളിലേക്കു സ്വാഗതം 
Next Stop : Podcasting
 

Nominations for Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 (2)

Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 Main page is here. This post is retained since some of the nominations were made here. Primary nomination thread is here.

Kerala Tips Downtime

Yesterday Kerala Tips was down most of the time. This site is hosted on Dreamhost and their planned power outage turned out to be a disaster. Hopefully things are stable now!
BTW, I still consider Dreamhost to be a good Web host due to their honesty.

Introducing Kerala Blog Listings

I have added a new directory of quality Kerala related blogs. English and Malayalam blogs are grouped separately and blogs are also categorized. The idea is to have a list of quality blogs at one place.
This directory/blog list is maintained on user submission (which may be from a blog reader as well). Hence only blog [...]

Introducing Kerala discussion forum

From today, Kerala Tips is hosting a Kerala discussion forum. The idea is to have quality discussions on topics related to Kerala only.
Currently only a limited set of forum topics are added. New forums will be added based on your suggestions. Some of the early participating members will be selected as forum moderators.

Features on keralatips.org

In this post, I will explain various features available on this site.
1. Subscription - You can receive latest updates to this site using two methods. You can subscribe to a daily mail or you can subscribe to the site feed. Subscribing to site feed will require an RSS feed reader (There are many available such [...]