Posts Tagged ‘Social Software’

Every generation has its own short code … And the old code makes way for the new. OMG and LOL are now officially passe. The NYT has a whole set of new acronyms that are replacing words in language.
* GI — Google it
* MOP — Mac or PC?
* FCAO — five conversations at once
* IIOYT [...]

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In my trawling through the net for content of interest, here are a few new ones that are really interesting.

Atrocity News – a site dedicated to highlighting atrocities in India. The site is a meticulous documentation of cases that violate the fundamental rights to life, liberty, property and equality. Its’ progress report on Khairlangi is [...]

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…. an interesting new directory service- PutVote – an interesting new social bookmarking service – (thanks Debashish), that indulges in the great indian past time of wanting to vote on everything.

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Hello and welcome to the first edition of BlogMela this year. And the year has gotten off to a great start. Some great writing in various categories from Desi Blogdom. Here goes. Arts and Entertainment Srican has an account of the nature of the harmonium vis-a-vis the sarangi as an accompaniment [...]

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Nominate away. new blogger, photo blogs, anything that will bring a bit of spice to our own little blogdom.
The rules are the same as usual.

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… somewhere in the world – someone has taken a spammer to court and won. I have all but ceased writing on media musings because of spammers. And on this site too – despite heavy anti spam plugins – spammers still manage to get through.
And when i see spam in my inbox – a red [...]

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One thing more than any than any other that the earth quake has proven is that man made boundaries are laughable. When natural disaster strikes it does not discriminate country a from country b. Suffering and pain and grief and loss extends across the land mass. So does the biting cold, the lack of shelter [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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.. just as another blogger Varna received a legal notice and a threat to be sued for 175 crores, in the ongoing saga of IIPM v/s freedom of speech, MSM seems to have woken up and printed its first story.
But Varna’s story first. She blogged about a debate she participated in – where she was [...]

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