Amit Agarwal - Professional Blogger & Technology Columnist
Amit Agarwal holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from IIT and has previously worked with clients like ADP, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Amit quit his job to become India's first and only Professional Blogger.
Amit now authors the hugely popular and award winning Digital Inspiration blog where he writes about computer software, consumer gadgets, mobile phones and web applications that help us become productive. Amit also writes a weekly column on personal technology for The Hindustan Times.
Amit has appeared on TV channels (see clips) and radio shows including BBC, CNN IBN, CNBC, NDTV, Star TV, ETV and Blog TV Singapore. He also made it to the coverpage of The Week magazine.
HT calls Amit the "founder of the Indian blogging revolution" while the prestigious The Straits Times of Singapore included him in their list of Asia's Blog Stars alongside Chinese actress Xu Jinglei and Japanese Ambassador Naoto Amaki.
Amit is a regular speaker at technology and blogging conferences. Microsoft awarded him the "Most Valuable Professional" status for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Amit lives in India with his extended family. He now drives a Honda CRV (courtesy Google AdSense and blogging) and, other than technology, Amit enjoys swimming, photography and making short movies for the web. His twitter handle is labnol.
About Digital Inspiration
Digital Inspiration, launched in 2004, is now among the Top 100 Technology Blogs on the Internet out of an estimated total of 130+ million blogs.
The purpose of this site is to help you take maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at your disposal so that you spend more time doing things your really love.
Digital Inspiration averages more than 2.5 million page views per month and has been quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, CNet, Wired, CNN Money, Guardian, Financial Times, CBC, Wired, ITWire, MSNBC, BoingBoing, BBC, Mercury News, Sydney Morning Herald, PBS, The New York Times and more ».
Digital Inspiration won the Best Technology Blog award at Indibloggies 2006 and is also included in the prestigious "Blogs of Note" list compiled by the Blogger team at Google. The site has also been recommended by CNN Go, the new travel and lifestyle site of CNN.
A survey by Business World magazine puts Digital Inspiration blog in the list of most popular blogs and online youth hangouts. The site also recommended as "must read" by India Today and is one of the top 20 blogs at Microsoft BlogStars.
In 2009, Amit launched India Blog School, a non-profit initiative that aims to spread blogging culture in India.
