Exhibition of Contemporary Tribal Art from India Opens on Note of Controversy

The Curator, who spent three years working on this project has not been given adequate credit

A Santhal scroll, depicting god of death Yama as wearing a policeman's uniform, on display at the exhibition of Indian tribal art in the Quai Brantly Museum,Paris on Monday

'Other Masters From India - contemporary Creations of the Adivasis,' a stunning exhibition of contemporary tribal art from India opened on Monday at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris.The entire credit fro this exercise goes to Dr.Jain's scholarship, knowledge and aesthetic sensibility. Most of the writings and several rare photographs in the detailed and richly illustrated catalogue have been contributed by him.

source: The Hindu

Ajith is set to hit U.K. race tracks

CHENNAI: Tamil film actor Ajith Kumar is set to don the role of a race driver, but for a change it won't be on the silver screen.
The 39-year-old is set to race at the best tracks in the world starting at Silverstone in England. Ajith will be driving wheel-to-wheel with some of the best upcoming racers of the world at the FIA Formula Two championship this year. 

Ajith, whose entry into the feeder series was confirmed on Wednesday, will be the third Indian driver on the F2 grid.
He will join the talented 21-year-old Armaan Ebrahim, who is in his second season in F2, and Parthiva Sureshwaren, who is making a comeback to international racing after a brief period away from competition.
"I am very excited about getting into competitive racing again and am looking forward to the first race next month," said Ajith.
"I am confident of achieving some success in the championship." Ajith, a motorsport enthusiast, is not new to racing.
He made his international debut in 2003 at the Formula BMW Asia Championship, where he had limited success. His best result was in the Korea round where he qualified 4th and finished 6th.
In 2004, he competed in the British Formula 3 Scholarship Class, where he managed two podium finishes.
This year, the actor competed in the final round of the MRF racing series in Chennai in February but failed to finish the race due to mechanical problems.
Though the MRF cars had decent pace, it is obvious Ajith will have to do a lot of homework just to make sure he safely reaches the checquered flag, let alone podiums.
The actor himself is aware he won't get retakes and to get himself race-ready he has gone through test rounds in Malaysia. "I did some testing in Malaysia recently and am looking forward to more practice runs in Snetterton (circuit in UK) & Silverstone before the event kicks off on April 16 (at Silverstone)."
He will need all the preparations as F2 is as competitive as any other international series and is filled with dangers too. Last July, British driver Henry Surtees died on the track after being hit by a wheel which came off another car during the F2 round at Brands Hatch.

Sureshwaren, who will share the grid with Ajith, is confident the actor will adapt fast. "He (Ajith) has seen race action before," said Sureshwaren. "I spoke to Ajith about it and he is pretty confident of doing well. He has been showing a lot of interest to work on his driving and Armaan and I will of course be with him, helping him to adapt fast."

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50 Great Widgets For Blogs

Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We’ve assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is – don’t overdo it!

MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers – this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of MyBlogLog.

Mashable – get the latest social networking news from this very site.

Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge – display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream.

Preview Anywhere – see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

Twitter Badge – if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you’re up to all the time, then aTwitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. It’ll proudly displays your recent tweets.

Digg News – display the latest Digg links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

FEEDJIT – real time traffic data directly in your blog’s sidebar.

LineBuzz – inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

Flixn – display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you’re up to.

3Jam – lets your visitors send messages to your mobile phone, without them knowing your phone number.

Jaxtr – with Jaxtr, your visitors can actually call you to your mobile phone; again, your number stays private.

LinkedInABox – show off your LinkedIn profile. Perfect for personal blogs.

Box Widget – enable visitors to use box.net’s online storage directly on your web site.

Price of gas – displaying gas prices on your blog might seem unnecessary to some, but it’s cool if you have a traffic/travel related blog.

iBegin Weather Widget – Display weather information in your sidebar. Just like with Price of Gas, works great with travel-related blogs.

ClockLink – display time in various time zones with these nifty Flash clocks.

Film Loops – display the latest loops from your FilmLoops account.

Daily Painters – display paintings from famous painters on your blog.

WhoLinked – show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site. Works with all major blog platforms.

Criteo AutoRoll – displays links to blogs similar to your blog.

Bitty Browser – embed a cute, fully functional mini web browser to your blog.

Leafletter – create a mini website and embed it into your blog.

WikiSeek – search Wikipedia with this simple widget.

FeedCount – show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button.

Technorati Link Count – display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities – Technorati.

MyPageRank – another good way to show how “big” your blog is is to show off your Google PageRank.

CheckPageRank – in addition to showing your PageRank, this widget also shows your Alexa ranking.

BlinkxIt – embed a link to related videos directly into your website.

Skype button – display your Skype online/offline status on your blog.

RockYou Horoscope – not something I would personally use, but some people are into horoscope. Hell, most people are into horoscope. Anyway, this widget shows horoscope (doh!) and does it in a nicely designed colorful box.

del.icio.us Tagometer – display how many times have del.icio.us users saved your page.

del.icio.us Linkrolls – this badge shows your latest bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Timelines – need to create a timeline? Seek no further. This widget makes it really easy.

PollDaddy – PollDaddy lets you create beautiful polls in no time, and display them at your blog.

Vizu – another poll-making widget, compatible with all major blog platforms.

AnswerTips – display definitions from Answers.com for various terms on your blog. The definitions are shown in bubbles which are activated on doubleclick.

AnswerBoxes – give your visitors a chance to enter a term themselves, and get a definition from Answers.com

Now Playing – if you got to share your current playlist contents with the world, Sigamp will do the trick. Works with most popular music players, including Foobar, Winamp, iTunes and others.

BuzzBoost – display headlines from your RSS feed on any website.

LibraryThing – show off the latest books you’ve been reading.

Plaxo Address Book – let your most faithful visitors access their address books direclty from your site.

AuctionAds – a widget that displays auctioned items on eBay, and gives you a percentage of the price paid when sometimes buys an item.

aStore – similar to AuctionAds, only for Amazon. Create a mini-store on your site and receive profit when someone buys an item through your store.

Plazes – show your current location on a Plazes map.

Stockalicious – track your portfolio with this widget, and share it with others. Let everyone know how much money you’ve lost.

Yahoo! For Good – create a charity badge and ask for donations for a worthy cause.

Giftspace – your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.

MixMap – see where are the visitors to your MySpace profile from on a map.

Google Map Widget – display a searchable Google Map on your website.

Google Video Search – add a video search form and selected videos to your web site.

Odeo player – display an Odeo player for and podcast right there in your sidebar.

Blogger PageRanking (PR) Widget

PageRanking of a website is a very important factor when it comes to Search Engine Optimization, Advertising, and most importantly, trustability. So these handy little widgets will help build a great reputation for your website by openly sharing your PageRank with your readers.

• The widgets display the PageRank of the current page being viewed.
• You're bound to find at least one that matches your website, of the selection below.

How to Implement the Widgets?
Simply click the "add to blogger" button if you're blog is powered by google blogger. If not, copy and paste the code into your webpage. Simply click on the code and it will highlight automatically. Make sure the code is placed between the two body tags of your template. If you have any questions regarding installation, please feel free to comment below!

Free Blogger Templates Archives

Today While Just Surfing found these templates archive nice and i love them each in one way..

San Francisco Skyline

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Pasar Kembang

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Water Beads

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Batman - The Dark Knight

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Cute Templates 4m Blogskin

 I love Cute Gadgets, I also like to find Cute Stuff, including Cute Templates for blog. If you use Blogger to make your blog, then you may like these Cute Blog Themes for blogger from Blogskin. There are tons of CuteBlog themes there, although I don’t think they also doing SEO for those templates too.

There are 2 Cute Templates I really like. First is the themes called a| winter. It use light blue color along with white and it simply says “Dear Diary”. Really nice for your daily blog. The second is the Cookie template. This template is really simple but use nice color combination and using cookies color in this theme makes this template looks really cool. Those are really Cute Blogger Templates, aren't they?

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How AdSense Detects Fraudulous Clicks

1. The clicker's IP address matches the one on your AdSense account.

It's a no-brainer. Don't click on your own ads.

2. Suspiciously high CTR

According to a report I read, anything above 10% will be flagged, but 6% or 7% would probably be a safer limit.

3. Clickers' IP addresses come from the same geographical area

This is for those who think they can get away with clicking on their ads from their friends' computer, their grandma's computer, and their neighbor's computer. It just ain't gonna work.

4. Cookies

Most users don't use the same IP address every time they login. That's why Google stores the IP addresses related to a particular user in a cookie. If you thought using a proxy clicker bot was gonna make you an AdSense millionnaire, don't quit your day job.

5. Short-stay pattern

Usually, visitors on your site take a few seconds to check out your content, and then maybe they'll click on your links. Google doesn't like it the other way around, i.e. if they only stay a few seconds just to click on links.

6. One-site pattern

Google compares different users' activities on different sites. It will ask: why is this user clicking on ads on site X and not on any other site?

7. Direct-access pattern

Google doesn't like it when one category of users clicks on your ads more than another. In particular, they don't like it when users who access your site directly (i.e. no referrer) click on your ads but no one else does. So much for click exchange forums.

8. Big Brother

Google doesn't just own AdSense. They also own gmail, Google earth, and a host of other applications. They WILL track your IP across these applications so don't think that just because you don't use an IP to login to AdSense you can use it to click on your ads.

9. The invisible website

If your website doesn't rank highly on Google's search engine, they may get suspicious if you get an insane amount of traffic and clicks. The traffic won't get you banned, but all those clicks better be legit.

10. Begging the click

Don't write stuff like "please visit our sponsors" on your webpage. You have to be a moron to think that Google can own a search engine and not find out about this sort of thing.

11. Conversions

I'm not sure how they verify this one, but it's obvious: if your clicks don't convert, it don't look good.

How to Set up Your Adsense URL Channels

If you are familiar with Channels move on... else just direct here.. What Are Channels?

Once you log into Google Adsense, you want to click on the tab "Adsense Set-Up"at the top of the page, and then click on "Channels".

                                                    

On the Channels page click on "URL Channels" and then click "+Add New URL Channels".

Then you can just start entering your Hubpage (or other website) urls in the box. If you want to just track all of your hubs as a single entity, the only thing you need to enter is hubpages.com and then click the button marked "Add channel". If you're going to add each Hub separately, then grab all of your hubpage urls and enter them in a batch or singly. Do not use your trackers. You want the raw url here.

And that's it. Now each time you log into your Adsense account, you can select"top channels" from the Reports menu and it will show you your top performing pages. You can also select "View All Adsense for Content channels" to get a performance overview of every page you are tracking.

AdSense Placement Tips to Help Improve Your CTR

If you are a Google AdSense publisher, you know that there are times when you aren't getting the results you expect. To improve your click through ratio(CTR), you may need to move the ads to different places on your website where you can expect more clicks. This post presents some placement tips for AdSense that will help you get more out of your site.

There a million little variables you can tweak with AdSense. One of the most important however, is where you place your ads on your site. Where you put your ads can have a dramatic effect on your earnings.

Regardless of what the so-called AdSense gurus and experts say, there is no definite area that works the best. Since every website is different, and each page is set up differently, it is impossible to say with 100% certainty that any particular position will work the best all of the time.With that said however, there are some guidelines you can follow to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Place your ads above the fold of your website. "Above the fold" is the top part of the webpage you can see without scrolling down. This is most prominent part of the page, which is immediately visible when the page loads. Because the ads are visible to all visitors, there is a greater likelihood that they will see the ads and take action.

2. Put your ads along the left side of the page instead of the right side. The theory is that since we read from left to right, our brains are more engaged when we are looking at the left side of the page, and we are more likely to notice what is there. Plus, psychologists say that right-handed people tend to favor things that are on their left side. Since most of the general population is right handed, it makes sense to place ads on the left.

3. Insert your AdSense ads inside of your content. By wrapping your content around the ads, they will blend into the page and not stick out like a sore thumb screaming, "I'm an advertisement!" With your AdSense blended into the page, your visitors will be more likely to see them, and you can just let the ad copy do the selling. If the advertisers have done a good job of writing their ad copy, you should be able to get some good results

4. Finally, the rule with AdSense is there are no hard and fast rules. Many factors affect the performance of AdSense on a website, so it is important that you experiment with the ad placement. Merely parking your ads in one spot and then leaving them there is not a very good way to improve your results. Experiment by changing ad formats and sizes, using different text colors, and so forth. Test by leaving them in one position for a few thousand impressions and then move them to another to see how they both compare. Read Channels in Adsense Experiments for more details

Channel Tracking In Adsense

What are channels?

Channels enable you to view detailed reporting about the performance of specific pages and ad units. By assigning a channel to a combination of pages or ad units, you could track the performance of a leaderboard versus a banner, or compare your motorcycle pages to your automobile pages. You can even create a channel to track each of your separate domains, so you can see where your clicks are coming from. While channels can be used to track performance and revenue, they won't have any effect on your earnings or ad targeting. Its a simple way to experiment with ad placements and blending
There are two types of channels from which to choose: URL channels, and custom channels.


URL Channels
Use URL Channels to track your performance without modifying your ad code. By entering a full or partial URL, you can begin tracking the performance of particular pages in your site. You can enter a top-level domain name to track all of the pages on that domain, or you can enter a partial URL to track all of the pages below a certain directory. Entering a full URL will track the performance of that particular page.
For more information, please read How do I create URL channels?
URL channels are only available for AdSense for content pages. If you would like to track your AdSense for search performance, please use custom channels.


Custom Channels
Custom channels allow you to track the performance of specific ad units based on your specified criteria. By pasting channel-specific ad code into your pages, you can track a variety of metrics across a range of URLs. Use custom channels to track the performance of different ad formats, for example, or to compare different page topics to one another. To learn how to create and assign custom channels, please read How do I create custom channels?
You can also turn any custom channel into an ad placement on which advertisers can choose to place their ads.
With up to 200 AdSense channels, plus 200 AdSense for search channels available for each publisher, you can use channels to gain the insight you need to optimize your site's performance. It's easy to add, deactivate, or rename your channels, and customized reports are simple to generate.

The Perks of Using an AdSense Tracker

Google AdSense is probably one of the best innovative ideas that Google has come up with in terms of effective advertisement campaign for online businesses. Over the years, a lot of online entrepreneurs have been successful with their online business because of their Google AdSense Campaign.

This is why most online entrepreneurs opt for an AdSense campaign in order to promote their products or services. However, if you are quite new in using it there are a few things you should know in order for you to not spend too much money on your advertisement campaign. After all, if you don't know what you are doing you will just probably end up wasting a lot of time, effort, and most of all money.

One of these important things you should know is how to determine which keywords are pulling in more clicks and which ones do not. By taking advantage of keywords that are big money makers you are ensured of a high income from your website. The best way to determine which keywords are pulling in more clicks and which ones aren't is by simply using an AdSense tracker.

If you are not familiar with an AdSense tracker, it is simply a tool or software that allows you to keep track website traffic based from keywords and clicks they receive in your AdSense website. The main advantage of using an AdSense tracker is that you will be able to see which keywords aren't working so well in terms of clicks receive so you can remedy the problem early.

Though some software nowadays cost a lot, surprisingly you will find a lot of tracker software for AdSense that are free. Of course, software that you may find online will have their own different features and perks from the others. It doesn't matter when choosing though, they all still focus on the same thing and that's narrowing down things through reports and statistics to help webmasters capitalize better for their business website.

The another simple and freeeeee way is to getting used to Google Analytics...It is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you're more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. 

Google Analytics makes it easy to turn page views into profits. And when used with other products in the Google ecosystem—including AdWords, AdSense, Website Optimizer, Webmaster Tools and others—it's easy to gain insights across marketing activities. Sign Up Now.

Make More Money With Adsense - Secret

The AdSense is the platform for contextual ads from Google and is one of many ways to monetize website traffic. For every click in AdSense ads, Google shares with the owner of the website where the click was produced, a portion of the amount paid by the advertiser.

How to earn more money with AdSense? There are basically two ways to earn more money with Google ads:

1 - Get more traffic to your site - attracting more visitors to your website will generate more clicks on the ads, which means more money into your pocket.

2 - Optimize the articles for keywords that pay a higher value per click - the clicks do not all have the same value. There are keywords that pay more per click and others that pay less. What you have to do is find the keywords that pay the highest values per click. You can find them for example by using a proper software. So with the same number of clicks you will earn much more money.

Imagine a word that pays $ 0.05 per click. You would need 20 clicks to earn $ 1. On the other hand, with word that pays $ 0.50 per click, you only need 2 clicks to earn that same $ 1. The idea is therefore to find the words that pay more, write articles and optimize them for the high paying keywords.

Instead of investing time and money to get more traffic, You should invest in the writing of more relevant articles that lead to the display of more valuable AdSense ads. Thus, with much less traffic you will make much more money!

This is a wise technique to increase AdSense earnings. All the professional internet marketers take advantage of this simple and very profitable method.

Art of Pottery

Hey friends,
              This is my first video post and its a bit low quality video [sorry..:(  ] i had only my mobile that time.. it was filmed when i was waiting for bus to get back to home from ma college.. as you know pottery is a village art considered as Rural Small Scale Industry.. The man doing this earned just from this and with his goats.. i didn't had much time to interact with him and to know more about him.. but i loved the way he made the pot.. and here's it for  you.. One of MY NATIVE Arts