Harini Calamur's Writings
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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…
Sorry about the extremely bad pun. I learnt today that a major channel is going to launch a game show at 9 p.m. Mon – Thursday, with Karishma Kapoor as the anchor. My first reaction was ouch! Sahara Manoranjan (Sahara One’s earlier…
In my inbox today – a peculiar mail. An excerpt from it: Dear Sir/Madam, We request you to take some time off your busy schedule to fill in this questionnaire about “Blogging”. The survey is aimed at finding out what does/could drive…
Today, came into my inbox a mail from Business World – “Publishing Industry’s moment of Reckoning” it screamed. So obviously i clicked on it. The story was about Dainik Bhaskar and Zee’s proposed English newspaper, HT coming into mumbai, and ToI moving…
When I started the Media Musings blog – one of the first things that i wrote a couple of lines on was the number of TV shows that were being made on foreign formats. So we have an Indian Idol, a Crorepati,…
Someone in Google has a great sense of creativity, empathy and humour. And all this while unobtrusively getting their logo to reflect current events. This blog is a tribute to someone, somewhere in Google who brings a smile to all our lips…
Today while travellig around the WWW, I came across a link that got my attention – Microsoft has put up a newsbot or a newsrobot – rather like Google News. The newsbot scans the net every so many minutes and updates the…
Dear Blog, Today I dumped IE for the final time. there will be no going back to it….. …..Many moons ago, when the net first came into India (1996) – I wrote and directed the country’s first Internet popularisation TV show. Called…
In an attempt to rein in filesharing, the US sentate has introduced a bill to bring heavy penalties, including upto 10 year jail sentances. In an attempt to stifle p2p, they plan also to impose penalties on devices that enable filesharing. This…
India’s newest media darling – http://www.mahamaza.com A system to reach the best brands to the back of beyond. While other web sites – used up crores on hype, this one put its distribution in place. As Rediff reports: Why has Mahamaza clicked…