Jassi gets a stamp of her own
September 3, 2004assi the ugly duckling – soon to turn into a swan – has now a new feather in her cap – the Indian postsal department is launching a stamp in her honour. I kid you not. A stamp for a star of…
Category: Media
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
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…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Political Ads
August 16, 2004I saw the Swiftboat Veterans Anti – Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again. The one line communication of the campaign is…
Character Analysis
August 15, 2004A brilliant description from the Angry Arab News Service The only reason that somebody like Muqtada As-Sadr (who has limited knowledge, no oratorical skills, and no charisma) can achieve this level of popularity is only due to the incompetence, stupidity, and unpopularity…
Consumers Outspend Advertisers on Media
August 5, 2004For the first time consumers spend on various media outstrips advertiser spend on media. The difference is over US$ 3 billion. Much of this was on buying or accessing content in various forms. An article in the Media Post carries the details….
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…
Blackadder Rocks
July 26, 2004Last week while going thro’ my video collection – I discovered some gems. The gemmest of the gems was the Blackadder Collection. And the pride of place of this collection goes to season 3, with amazingly rocking episodes episode 1: Dish and…
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…
A Glimmer of Hope – Bare Foot Capitalism
July 15, 2004Today i went into viewing the rushes from the shoot. All you can see is dry heat and warm tones. And viewing the footage made me realise that no matter what the fuckups the story that is going to be told is…
The Real Issues – Corruption, Caste, and Reservations
July 11, 2004“It costs Rs.3 lakhs – Rs.300,000 – to get into the army. About Rs.1 lakh to become a teacher and something inbetween to get a job as a pune in a college. where do we get that kind of money from?” is…