psst, that’s my baby, Majbur Zindagiyan!

Off the record:
It took total 2 days to make, including conceptualization, interviewing some poor souls and the post-production. I remember my friends dozing off and me working on editing, through the night, ofcourse, hurling curses at them at every possible instance. Creating this movie has been one of the best experiences of my life, and winning that prize, one of the fondest memory of achievement. I miss you guys, my loved majboor fukeers.

Officially:
A documentary about the children and elderly of the city Bhopal (capital of Madhya Pradesh, India) who are forced into a life of misery and hardships because of their poverty. Stood first in a national level movie-making competition held at NIT, Bhopal (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology aka MANIT and MACT) in ’06.

• Explore – More original shayari by the original shayar Prakash here – “Thought-String“

Digg. Delicious. Reddit. Google Reader. iGoogle. Pageflakes. Netvibes. Facebook.

Web2.0 is teeming with hundreds of sites that will let you save your bookmarks online, aggregate the different feeds subscriptions, and do all this all with a very neat and slick interface and for free, too. All of your data can be made accessible to general public, again in very ‘social’ way.

Consider this: people can now bookmark and share using any bookmark manager, social network, instant messenger, browser and/or the plain jane email addresses. They can subscribe using any web-based feed reader,  desktop feed reader and widgets. This is what web2.0 means to me, however, there are just a bit too many options to choose from. For any layman, this simply means information overload!

So, gone are the days when you provided your visitors with a simple notice to “Please bookmark this site”. Now you have to help ‘em share, save and subscribe to your content. On digg, reddit, delicious, and what not. For a naive (and lazy) blogger like myself, this is too much work to do. It will need some maintenance too, which, my lazy ass just won’t allow me to do.

So what do we do to become more ‘social’? Time tested out-sourcing to the experts, ofcourse. We out source this job to an external provider, who’ll happily provide us with a slick interface, maintain the different technicalities, and somehow do it for free (by capturing our visitors data). We need a service that will be automatically updated, cross-browser and reliable. Aaah. That would be delightful, and not to anyone’s surprise, such services do exist. A day of hard work (googling is hard to do these days) led me to zero in on the following three providers -

• AddThis
• Add To Any
• Share This

You can read a pretty good review of the above three on Richard’s FilioVision blog here:

• Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress: Bookmark Me, AddThis.com, AddToAny.com and Share This

For my blog, I will be using Add To Any, mainly because Share This is somewhat slow to load and AddThis seems a bit more commercialized than I would prefer.

Happy socializing!