A Great Read
April 4, 2006Check out the Guardian’s comment is free section – great set of blogs. would love to see something like this in our msm!
Category: Digital
All things Digital
Praise Be….
December 28, 2005… 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…
Karishma ka Karishma
September 24, 2005Sorry 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…
Survey in the mail
May 19, 2005In 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…
A New Twist to Spam in India
March 22, 2005Today, 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…
Fandom and Fanfiction
December 10, 2004When 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,…
Google Rules
August 25, 2004Someone 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…
Microsofts’ new news site
August 1, 2004Today 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…
Browser Adultry
July 20, 2004Dear 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…
Reining in the Frontier
June 26, 2004In 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…