Archive for October 23rd, 2005

23
Oct

The State v/s p2p’ers

   Posted by: gargi    in Uncategorized

All through last year, and this - p2p sites have been served with notices. This image is going up on some that have been shut down.

It almost seems like a challenge. For everyone of the sites that they shut down a couple more come up. Moving into countries like Poland and Turkey where it is difficult to get prosecuted.

It promises to be an interesting game.

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23
Oct

Open Mouth Insert Foot

   Posted by: gargi    in India, Media

Last week Charu had blogged about Neil French talking himself out of a job because he said

“Women don’t make it to the top because they don’t deserve to. They’re crap.” and went on to further explain the reason - women are “…a group that will inevitably wimp out and go ’suckle something”‘

Our esteemed Economic Times covers this story with a headline that says “He spoke about women & lost his job”

That’s a bit like saying that the plague is a minor illness! Do people who write these kind of headlines actually understand what they are saying?

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23
Oct

How much is your blog worth?

   Posted by: gargi    in Uncategorized


My blog is worth $49,679.52.
How much is your blog worth?

Mine is worth almost USD 50,000. Maybe it is time I sold out and moved to the hills :)
The valuation is based on Tristan Louis’s research that was triggered off by the aquisition of Weblogs Inc by AOL.

Not bad for a blog that is part of a:

a bitchy, self-indulgent and an almost incestuous network comprising journalists, wannabe-writers and a massive army of geeks who give vent to their creative ambitions on the internet. Given that the average blogger-age is 25 years, it’s clear bloggers love to indulge in hearty name-calling and taking college-style potshots at others. This is probably why some of them get into trouble.

That surely sounds like a frustrated blogger whom no one links to, or even worse a bitchy self indulgent journalist who either doesn’t know about the topic that he is writing about, or couldn’t care :)

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