Guess Who Spammed Me Today …
June 30, 2011In my inbox, There is, of course, no mention of this notification from the University Grants Commission (UGC) India –
Category: Digital
All things Digital
Internet Lumpen….
April 26, 2011At the outset, I apolgise if this sounds like a tale of a spat in a kindergarten playground. It was one of those kind of days. Morning was spent at the university looking at some terrible answer papers “radio is an…
Twitter Does not Cause Revoultion, People Do
February 21, 2011… 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…
Of Coffee, Conversations & Death Threats
December 27, 2010….. 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…
Spirit of Mumbai
November 3, 2010Last 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 –…
Thoughts on Gladwell’s Small Change Why The Revolution Will Not be Tweeted.
September 29, 2010A 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…
Caste Cast or Cats !!
September 29, 2009Dictionary.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…
Moral Hypocrisy ?
July 24, 2009What 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…
‘Copyright’ or ‘Right to Copy’
April 19, 2009And, 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…
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December 7, 2008Feedburner 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…