Podworks is the first of its kind podcasting workshop to be conducted in chennai on June 9 and 10. The two day event which will take place at Tidel Park will have the some of the famous podcasters from the country. Podworks is yet another initiative from the knowledge foundation, the key force behind the events like Blogcamp,Wikicamp and many other events.

Podworks will be a workshop style unconference where all the knowledge needed for making a podcast will be imparted from people who have done it before and there will also be many hands on sessions, competitions and discussions. Podworks will be India’s Biggest Event on Audio & Video Podcasting and promises to bring the best of the podcasting/blogging/new media community together to learn, share, experience, and grow.

There will be a door donation of Rs.200 for meeting the expenses of the event and of course there will be some give aways which will help you continue your podcasting experiments from home.

Registrations for the event are open and rush up if you are interested as the number of participants for the workshop is restricted. Keep yourself updated about the event by joining the mailing list. If you are interested in volunteering go check the wiki and take up some responsibility

The first organizers meet for Podworks was held last sunday at CCD, IIT Madras and surprisingly 34 people turned up for the meet and offered to volunteer and take up various responsibilities. It was a very diverse work force consisting of students, journalists, software professionals, RJs,actors and a singer. Many remarkable decisions were taken in the first organizers meet and a lot of brainstorming happened so as to make the event a grand success.

Check out more photos in Chinmayi’s blog. As per plans we will be starting for the bigrace after attending the podworks as it sounds too interesting to be missed.

Suderman rocks-true to the core!!!

He has come up with this hilarious spiderman comic strip. One of his best works ever!!! It is fucking hilarious and i laughed aloud while checking it out. Sud is definitely making wonders with his mac. I loved the first two parts and I wanted to catch up with spiderman-3. Little did i know that peter parker was a homo. Go check that strip out! I bet Marvel is gonna hire Sudhish and gonna make him continue stripping Parker!!!

People who are in the chennai active blog circle who meet often and do lot of crazy stuff will definitely be knowing TUD aka The Under Dawg aka Dinesh (His numerous other girl friends call him by different names based on the situation and also convenience). For others here is a formal intro…TUD just passed out of college (MCC-flooded with hot chics!). He did his PG in Mass communication there and got a job with IndiaInteracts where he currently hugs hot malayalam chicks and drives stylish motor bikes in the name of doing Entertainment shows. He also finds the job very challenging and hectic.

In spite of his ‘tight’ hot chick hugging schedule TUD promptly comes for RTFF and other event organizer meets. It was during last week that a halo started appearing behind our hero’s head. During RTFF-2, TUD met a hawt chick and had that ‘first sight’ feeling with something gushing from the tip of his toe to the top of his head. Then two days later hero meets the girl again at some press meet and feels that life keeps going and Venus is trying to convey him some message and starts penathifying something in his blog. Hero concludes that if he meets the girl for the third time then this is it!(Knowing that SHE will be coming for the Podworks meet and he will be meeting her there, Kedi Bugger;)

You might have seen this pic elsewhere but it has become customary to add it!

It was then we started “Will TUD lay the chick ” campaign and owing to the great success of the campaign it was stopped. Still you can support this noble cause and join the wagon.
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On sunday afternoon people were having conversations in groups and Sagaro did an ultimate comedy. He narrated the TUD’s optimism theory and love story to the guy who came with TUD’s crush without realising. I was laughing like anything and half way something struck him ….
S: U came with that girl right????
S: R u her boy friend?!?!?
Guy: Jus a friend!
S: Oooo…K

Intially we thought TUD got pissed off and will thanni adichi kupara paduthufy but he feels that it has got stronger and has started singing Munbe vaa and looping Unnale unnale in his player.

Kalakara Machi!!!

MMS(Mobile Monday on a sunday) happened this weekend and i reached the venue a late by half an hour. The sessions were not that great at least not in the lines in which i expected. Except for a few hitches it went off well. Hats off to Varum krishnan who was the key behind the first version.

After MOMO, we had our lunch at Tiffanys and headed to the CCD. People started coming in one after the other and the we pulled all the chairs tables and created a chaos. 34 peeps for a organizers meet! Even chennai bloggers meet didn’t see such a crowd. It was not like too many cooks spoil the broth but many notable decisions were taken in the two hour meet and many people contributed their ideas.

TUD-”the” man was at his full pace during the podworks meet. Every time i take the photos and pass it to Ganesh and he efficiently does this Photo essay with all the witty comments. Thanks to him.

Check out the photos of MOMO and Podworks meet.

MOMO Chennai is happening this weekend at IIT Madras.

After that there is a organizers meet for Podworks-The podcasting workshop to be held on June 9 and 10. Some new exciting people are to join the organisers team. It’s gonna be fun.

Why is chennai the blogging capital of India? This was the topic for the Group discussion which we had before the Rooftop Film Festival. It was for a CNN IBN show and was supposed to start at 6 PM an hour before the RTFF starts. On that day around 10 of my classmates came to my house and we were sitting and chatting the whole day inside my room. We had our farewell on Monday and my team was supposed to give some variety entertainment during the farewell evening. So on that day we decided to write the script and do some rehearsals so that we don’t screw up on the stage. Time went on and on and we were sitting idle doing nothing.

In the afternoon Ganesh called and asked me to come early to Siddharth’s place as there was some shoot by CNN IBN. I thought it was about RTFF and decided to leave at around 5 from my home so that i can reach RA puram by 6. Me and Mahesh also had to edit the movie which we had shot as a farewell gift to our seniors. It just covered various places in my college and we guys decided to add some humorous dialogues and complete it before the evening. It was a perfect piece and it would be great to look at a video of your college years down the lane. But things got fucked up really bad.

Incidentally i was ill when the video was shot and said i will help with editing and stuff. We then paid Rs.150 for processing the tape and when i put the DVD in the drive….What the fuck!!! I think one of the assholes who shot the video was doing something with the other hand….the video got screwed up and was shaky in all the places. We lost hope of editing it.

Coming back….i was late again and my friend dropped me in RA puram and the worst part was i was a few buildings near sid’s place and searched for it for 20 minutes. At last i reached his place and fortunately the shoot didn’t start. We set the mattresses and the cameras were on and we started.

The discussion was very lull ….Take a look here to know what happened there. (I don’t have the patience to write about it….Initially i thought of writing about it but got diverted and am now blabbering something else)

It happened again and at the same place too! Sid once again let his amazing roof for all the movie freaks to have RTFF edition 2. Even though it clashed with the finals of the world cup the turnout was pretty good. I felt it was not as good as the first edition because i slept for a few hours this time. Thanks to the boring movies and also the low spirit!

I saw Good night good luck and the other movies i saw only in parts. Most of the time we were sitting behind and having some random conversations and at other times i slept. The best part of the fest was the Tamil dubbed version of Kung Fu Hustle which we saw for some half hour during dawn. Fucking Hilarious!!!! Unfortunately we had to stop it

Sagaro’s Photo essay

The New Indian express carried a very good article on RTFF. Thanks to all those who took the initiative. It is definitely going to go places.

Searching for porn on the net is acceptable and even mallu porn is ok and it is a renown fact that it will lead to thalaivar’s blog .
Even the most vettiest of all will not search for a tag like this
That too who the fuck navigates till the fifth page and comes to my blog.(Twice!!)

PS: Sagaro has slipped to the second page for that valuable search tag and this text anchoring is my seo gift for him