We like to Thank all Followers and Feedburner Subscribers of This Blog

Today, I noticed that the number of followers has reached 136 and naturally it made all of us very happy. This shows that this blog is flourishing.

Just few months ago on April 30 2010, I informed that the blog had 31 followers that day. So, we have been able to add another 105 followers in just 4 months and 10 days.

We like to thank all our new followers and we are trying to put quality content. In the next one month, we are aiming to write some good reports about cloud computing in South Asian countries. Now, we have decreased the number of entries but we are focusing on quality content. We want that all our content can bring value to the readers.

We are 4 bloggers for this blog. Unfortunately, our most hard working blogger Biplob is now sick and he cannot work. I am recovering from a long sickness. Well, I know that we can put a lot of content but we want to post useful entries.

Of course, what gives us most happiness is to get comments from our visitors. I am happy to state that this blog has received nearly 3800 comments in 15 months.

Some Entries to Read: 17 November 2009

I am not in writing mood today. In fact, my health is not that good. So, what I am going to do here is to give you link of some entries to read. Some of them are written by bloggers of my team. So, it is a kind self publicity too. Anyway, I hope that you will like them.

Do you have any interest about literature or English literature? Then you can read the following two entries from Literature blog:

Doctor Faustus is a renaissance man

Senecan elements in The Spanish Tragedy

If you do not like literature then may be you are fond of Sports and if so then you can read these two entries:

Top Ten Highest Salary Paid Footballers in the World

France vs Ireland Live in which TV channel: FIFA World Cup 2010 Qualifier Playoff

From the title you can understand that it talked about popular soccer players who get very good amount of money.  

Well, if you are not fond of sports then may be you like business and technology. This is season of Black Friday 2009 and Mehdi has been covering a lot about this matter in Laptop Computer Blog. Here is one entry for you:

Walmart Black Friday 2009 TV deals

 Now, from outside of our network two news items:

US Economy: Production, Prices Increase Less Than Forecast

Accused Cindy Crawford Blackmailer Surrenders

I hope that you would enjoy reading them. 

Some Entries from Our Network to Read for 28 October 2009

In my city, it is the morning of 29 October. However, in some parts of the world, it is perhaps still 28 October. Anyway, we uploaded some entries in other blogs of the network today including this blog. I am giving you link of just 4 of them so that you can enjoy reading them.

100,000 iPhone Apps: It is from Laptop Computers Blog. Well, I have written about it. You should read it because it is very funny that Nokia is way behind than Apple when it comes to apps.

Lil Wayne No Ceiling Mixtape got Mixed Up: Free Song Download is Possible: Are you a follower of Rap music. I am not. If you are a fan of this kind of music then you should visit this entry.

Good Bye David Shepherd forever: He was one of the finest umpires the game of cricket has ever seen. We are sad at his death.

Dear Spammers: An Open letter for all of You?: If you are a spammer then this entry is definitely for you. Even if you are not then you will enjoy it.

So, enjoy the entries. 

Computer Jagat Opens a Portal and Blog Community in Bangladesh

Computer Jagat is one of the leading ICT magazines in Bangladesh. It has a decent number of readership and almost everyone in the IT industry know about it in the country. It has a website for quite some time now. Recently, some major changes were done and it was turned into an Information Technology portal. Here, you can now find all the achieved content of the old issues and I have to say that it is undoubtedly the richest achieve in Bangladesh about Information Technology.

It will be a very valuable asset  for the researchers and ordinary users alike. Abdul Wahed Tomal is the brain behind the online portal. I am happy to inform you that Tomal was my student 10 years ago in University of Asia Pacific. In fact, some of my former students are directly or indirectly involved with this project.

I am impressed mainly because Computer Jagat is not a daily or even a weekly magazine. It is a monthly magazine and here most monthly magazines even don’t have their own websites or even if they have, the websites are not updated regularly. From time to time, I sat with Abdul Wahed Tomal and it gives me a lot of pleasure to see that he has the dream to make it a very successful web portal.

E-commerce is yet to be implemented in Bangladesh. Very few website owners can dream of earning money through their websites. That is why, we do not have that many web portals in large scale. I admire the courage of Tomal in this regard. Hopefully, e-commerce will be implemented in Bangladesh in 2012 and then things will become better for people like him.

I wish to see that a new breed of young web entrepreneurs emerge in my country. India has already some big success stories. Bangladesh perhaps also has some like Fahim Mashroor of Bdjobs.com. I hope that Tomal can become a role model soon.

What I like most about Computer Jagat portal is its blog section. It is like a community blog. I really wish with all my heart that it remains as solely a blog on Information Technology. Then, the people who are interested about technology related issues can get a very useful platform. For example, today, one of my assistants asked me some questions about buying a laptop in Dhaka. If he had asked this question in the blog section of Computer Jagat then perhaps some people could give him more information than I could. Or there is a huge digital divide gap in Bangladesh between Dhaka and the rest of the country. Computer Jagat Blog can do something about it too.

By the way, in blog section, Animesh Chandra Bain is giving tips in Bangla language about WordPress.

I have already stated that Tomal was my student and I have very good relationship with him. Hopefully, I will be able to provide updates of the blog and portal in the coming days. 

Hobby Economist: A New Blog

(This entry was originally uploaded on May 2009.)

If you enjoy South Asia Blog then I am sure that you will enjoy Hobby Economist Blog. Here, in South Asia Blog, we try to cover economic and business issues from South Asia. In Hobby Economist, I am trying to write about the US and global economies. Well, I feel that in one way or another the global economy is related to the US economy. The same goes for South Asian countries too. America is The largest market for Ready Made Garments (RMG) products of Bangladesh. The same goes for outsourcing sector of India. So, if you are interested about South Asia then you should visit Hobby Economist and may find something interesting. If you do not like it then you can always come back here and enjoy the coverage on South Asia.

We intend to give full time and effort for this blog (South Asia Blog). In fact, there are 3 bloggers working for this site including me. So, rest assured that we will continue to work on the same pace for this blog as usual.