Posted by gargi on 03 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Media, Web
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: India
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
…. 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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Posted by gargi on 07 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., India, Politics
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 02 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
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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Posted by gargi on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Web
… 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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: 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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: 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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 12 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: India
.. 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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