Fitness on blogs

Lately, I've been on a fitness kick. And I've never felt so good. It got me thinking about how an exercise newbie could use the Internet to maximise her workout potential. I did a Google search to see what I could come up with. I'm not going to a gym for weigh loss, so I eliminated blogs that dealt with that. One blog I came across was Fitness Black Book (http://fitnessblackbook.com/) with the tagline: Advanced Tips Your Personal Trainer Doesn't Know. I found all sorts of interesting stuff, including questions like: are you just have a high pain to tolerance? The author tells you not to become gym obsessed, to skip a workout if you're planning on going for a walk, and to not spend your life constantly worrying.

Bloger at 92

Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai sets up blog, Twitter and Facebook to follow

Blogging has come of age in India. Ninety-two-year-old Mrinalini Sarabhai is the latest to hop onto the bandwagon. The legendary dancer has set up a blog on Blogger.com.

"Ageing is a mindset. keep working, keep interested and active!" she begins. It was her 26-year-old grandson, Revanta, who urged her into hitting the keyboard.

Not a lifestory

Blogs aren't new to Mrinalini: "I am a passionate reader, always open to the throbs of the contemporary world. The word 'blog' was always there in my vocabulary.

Whenever I hear about some interesting posts by people, I always check them out."

The Padma Bhushan recipient plans to share personal anecdotes and random thoughts across her e-journal, which has two posts so far.

She is making sure the blog doesn't reas like the story of her life. her autobiography was published in 2004. "I don't think I should 'trouble' my readers again," she says.

Tweeting is next. Says Sarabhai, "I will share my blog contents through Twitter and Facebook."

Give art a chance

There are some blogs that transcend every other definition of blog you've seen before. These are the kind of blogs you might call beautiful, even if you never thought you'd use that word for anything on the Interent.

There are webcomics and there are illustration blogs. They're as different from each other as say, Old Monk and a very fine wine.

RR get Net savvy, tweets and blogs

MUMBAI:

You will now be able to directly communicate with your state home minister RR Patil and read about his personal opinions all first hand.

Home minister RR Patil has gone the e-way by registering himself on the social networking site Facebook, by creating a twitter identity and going a step ahead by creating his personal blog that can be accessed at www.aabapatil.wordpress.com.

China bans online love for soldiers

Beijing:

China's military officers have added matchmaking to their duties, after the government banned troops from online dating overs fears that lonely hearts might let sensitivities information slip, state media said on Monday.

Try keeping it neat

Today we're going to deal with reader queries, that much neglected part of this column. Although, you guys have been fairly quiet recently, so either my columns have been so all encompassing that you don't feel the need to ask any further questions, or you're feeling shy. Either way, I'd like more email, so please keep writing in!

Today's question is from fifteen-year-old Sneha, who says:

"I want some advice for my blog htt;//www.oneinamillionsneha.blogspot.com/. I want some ideas for the posts and even want to add some nice effects. Please suggest sites for adding any widgets,"

Software to sense depressed blogs

Viveka Babaji's tragic death has left many shocked. People who met her just a week before she committed suicide, still cannot believe she might have been depressed. But is there really a way to track depression? Researchers have now developed a software programme that can detect depression in blogs and online texts. The software is capable of identifying language that can identifying language that can indicate a writer's psychological state, which could serve as a screening tool.