http://goodnewsindia.com en goodnewsindia@gmail.com 2003-11-18T04:24:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/regarding-cms/ A major reorganisation has been completed. The site has now gained new capabilities. One, the site has migrated to a premium server at Linksky. Premium server has many added features, among them notably, the ability to run Java Servlets. Migration itself was not without its complexity or anxieties. But it was made possible at all by the steady hand-holding by Linksky support over nearly seven weeks. The reason for selecting Linksky as a low-priced, well supported host is only reinforced by this experience. Two, the supplements now run on Version 2.3 of PMachine. This great content management… - 2003-11-18T04:24:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/in-the-press/ Finally some of main media is beginning to take note of GoodNewsIndia. First there was a story in the New Indian Express. Then soon after, a long profile in rediff.com. It does feel nice to be noticed. In June,2003, GNI welcomed its 300,000th unique visitor. The first 100,000th came in May, 2002, about two years after launch. GNI received its 200,000th visitor in Jan, 03, ie in about 8 months. And now the 300,000th in five months. May the growth continue for it means the message of GNI is reaching wider. The new look GNI launched in Jan,03… - 2003-07-03T04:22:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/the/ After two years of publishing GoodNewsIndia I became aware of the huge need to gather more of the India good news than the site had thus far done. GNI is publishing about two feature stories in its magazine section but what seemed needed was a series of supplementary sections to host the many facets of a ‘good India.’ The result is already on view, but here for the record I think I will lay out something of the flavour of the work done. A sort of ‘movie about the movie’. The following may be technical and personal but this being… - 2003-01-03T13:34:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/end-of-gnipost/ I have discontinued gniPost because of poor reader participation. Its purpose will be served in another way soon. - 2002-11-10T08:51:01+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/another-road-trip/ A drive through rural India is always an educational experience, if you are looking for signs of positive change. The traveller must learn to see the implied in the obvious. For example, the crowding, squalor and noise of the small town may seem to have worsened. But they may in fact be transitory symptoms of growing prosperity. Likewise the stridency of a political debate may in fact indicate a quarrel for a larger share of a desirable pie. In both, the implications are positive. Admittedly, things may seem ‘bad’ and may even get worse—but you need to believe that they… - 2002-10-14T08:49:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/hacked/ Honours come in many ways to a website. One of them is to be hacked. Yesterday for a few hours the homepage of GoodNewsIndia was replaced by another by some Arab groups denouncing President Bush. I was online then, and so repairs were quick. It was nevertheless touching to be alerted by a well-wisher of GNI within minutes of the defacement. LinkSky quickly restored the content. - 2002-10-09T08:47:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/gnipost/ gniPost has finally been launched after much fiddling and testing; and for all that it is still experimental. The idea behind gniPost is that it become a place where visitors to GNI can meet kindred spirits. The idea for this section arose because of a number of mails received asking for things like suitable projects readers could contribute to, or seeking funds, asking where they could volunteer or find volunteers etc. Several wrote asking how to contact people with similar interests or missions. Until the feature settles down, all posts will be pre-viewed in order to keep its… - 2002-07-04T08:44:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/100000th-visitor/ This shall be an elegantly simple entry: on May 29, 2002, GNI received its 100,000th visitor. I feel good --and smug! - 2002-06-01T08:42:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/to-goa-by-qualis/ I have just completed a 4000kM road trip for GNI through Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa , amidst disquieting news of berserk mobs in Gujarat using communal identities for rioting, looting and blood-letting. It was—and is—a moment to ask, “Will India ever let go of its periodic spells of madness and uncilivilsed behaviour? Are the stories in GoodNewsIndia likely to sound escapist and unreal?” My answer after 18 days on the road is: “As real as the reports of violence, are the sagas of quiet Indians working beyond the insane din, on missions of their choice that add positive… - 2002-04-14T08:25:00+04:30 http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Supplement/article/gni-alerts-begin/ A sobering descent yes, from the heady page-views record in January but still bowling along at an average of about 430 per day. Introduced an alert service. Visitors signing up for it will receive an email soon as a new story is published. Sign-ups are about 4 per day since the service went on-line on Feb.19,2002. - 2002-02-24T08:23:00+04:30