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Collaborative post with the CSA on the census

I recently worked on a post comparing the American census with its Indian counterpart. I co-authored it with Nataly Kelly of Common Sense Advisory. Here’s an excerpt and the link: Asking the language question. In the past, the U.S. Census asked individuals if they spoke a language other than English at home. No longer. The [...]

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Twitter’s best week in India … yet.

This is pretty passé to Twitter. It’s more used to shaking up entire governments. In India, it’s still just a Minister of State. Well, not bad for a start, eh?

Now, to de-glamorize the role of Twitter in the entire IPL muck carnival: at least this time round, Twitter had very little to do with @Shashi Tharoor’s predicament. But that’s not the point, really. And I don’t want to push any more IPL stuff down your throat, I’m choking, too.

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Don't take a chance, plain language always works

A couple of months ago, The New York Times made public some very interesting internal data: a list of words that its online readers were frequently looking up. On the NYT site, you can look up the meaning of any word by selecting it and clicking on the small question mark that appears beside. The [...]

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How to write search engine-friendly copy and keep it interesting for your readers?

One of the ways to keep driving traffic to your site is by writing and publishing informative articles on your site or on article submission directories. While writing quality articles with the right keywords is important from the SEO perspective, keeping it informative and interesting to your readers is equally necesary. The keywords are important [...]

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