A Point of View
Once again my eye chances upon something that induces your my jaw to hit the floor and come back up in very, very slow motion. The world’s largest selling English language daily in association with the owner of an IPL team bring you this :
as my biz partner SR would point out “paidayashi aise the, [...]
HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB.
And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use the net. (‘younger audiences’
In typical desi style, they have gone in for [...]
The last post gathered a flurry of comments on both this blog and on FB where i reposted it. There hasn’t been a single comment supporting the media.
Kishore Ajwani wrote in :
This is Kishore Ajwani. I apologise to all of you who think that I demeaned the profession I belong to. This was not [...]
The glee and irresponsibility with which the media handled 26/11 was watched by all. but, at what cost?
On the first night – there was CNN IBN giving a blow by blow account of the movement of the Rapid Action Force commando’s. I shouted, impotently at the TV screen, they get TV reception at the [...]
This from the DNA in “Why are we comfortably numb in a violent decade?” on violence in media and on whether it numbs us.
It starts with a ‘quote’
‘Violence repels us but violence also attracts us;
Violence alarms us but violence also entertains us;
Violence destroys us but violence also protects us.’
The above lines are taken from [...]
.. and we (as in the online community) click a lot. Yahoo News had an interesting piece on audience trends.
….surfing for p*rn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking sites.
“As social networking traffic has increased, visits [...]
Parallel Universes — a concept in science fiction, where realities slightly differing from our own exist. For example, there may be a universe where Hitler won or one in which India remained undivided. Usually, the wall between the universes cannot be breached.
But, the world’s largest selling English language quality broadstreet has another feather in its [...]
One of the most difficult parts of teaching is making sure that students get it into their heads that plagiarism is wrong.I am known to have thrown bitch fits when i have discovered chunks of projects from the net. ‘you will lose your job’ i tell them, ‘no one will hire you’, ‘it is [...]
If there is Youngistan, can MenoPauseLand be far behind …
The NYT reports :
Menopauseland is the invention of Amerifit Brands and its creative agency, BrandBuzz in New York, on behalf of Estroven, a supplement that is meant to help reduce the symptoms of menopause. A campaign with a budget estimated at $20 million is centered on [...]
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