Harini Calamur's Writings
All things Digital
… My Column in today’s DNA: You need to have been stuck under a rock in Antarctica or living in furthest reaches or China to have missed the popular protest in Egypt that led to the fall of a thirty-year-old dictatorship of…
….. the virtual world in general, and twitter in particular, makes for quite an interesting experience. I don’t know whether it is by design or it just happened by default, on Twitter, i interact with a bunch of people from different ends…
Last Saturday, Nokia India teamed up 3 tech bloggers – Aditya Singhvi, Kunal Gangar, and Nikhil Pai – and 3 non-tech bloggers – Deepak , Tarun Chandel and yours truly – and let us loose in Mumbai with the Nokia N8 –…
A long time ago, in a life time far away, i read Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” and remember being impressed with the insight on what causes mass behavioral change. I was so impressed that when Blink came out i bought a…
Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast. I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating ! –verb (used with object) 1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the…
What did he expect ? Abhinav Bhatt, a law student based in Pune, filed a complaint with the magistrate’s court in June 2000, saying that Rediff has committed offence under section 292 of IPC (selling, distributing obscene material). His contention was that…
And, last week the founders and owners of Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement and : The Stockholm district court on Friday sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year in prison each for…
Feedburner has completely F***ed up on this site. it keeps working and dying. want to know if anyone else has the same issues. have now reverted back to original feed and feedburner feed. am just checking to see if the original feed…
.. 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…
Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure: Three army men detained with 170…