Blog Mela Schedule
May 26, 2005This from Madhoo’s site: May: 19th May: Amit 26th May: Shivam June: 2nd June: Saket 9th June: Charu 16th June: Harini Yo guys! We need volunteers, so sign up quickly before we are forced to draft!
Tag: Social Software
Accredited by the Government
May 18, 2005The ToI reports that the GoI (now that rhymes) is thinking ( and that is an oxymoron) of accrediting internet journalists and bloggers. In a 5 years past its sell by date quote, the Principle Information Officer Shakuntala Mahawal said: We are…
Pot instead of e-mail!
April 23, 2005Apparently we are turning into a planet of zombies. The Guardian reports: The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers. Doziness, lethargy and…
The Empire Strikes Back
March 27, 2005About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule – a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in. In the last two years one of…
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,…
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…
To Yahoo Groups or not Yahoo Groups?
December 26, 2003I think that i am trying to catch up with 6 weeks of not blogging on one night. What to do? my fingers wont’ stop typing:)There is this almost euphoric feeling of pouring out my thoughts. Besides I blogged in my mind:))…
Free Blog Sites
October 13, 2003A few days ago i wrote about the Perseus report on blogging – which reveals that most blogs started on free blog sites such as this, or xang, or blogspot – well are defunkt. people don’t come back after signing up. My…
Blogging in Hindi
October 8, 2003found this great site completely in Hindi. Every thing – from the entries to the comments. i think it may be the firs (and only) completely Hindi weblog. Did a bit of digging around and came across nHlog – the blog of…
Sinicization of the Internet
September 30, 2003China is 1.2 billion plus. Most of them don’t read English. They are fairly fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese or other Chinese dialects. But not English. Much of the content on the web is in English, and will continue to be so….