Harini Calamur's Writings
#WomenBoycottTwitter was on the 13th of October. Many women i know, and a fair few men, stayed off twitter, to protest against (non transparent rules) that suspend those who protest against violence, and spare those who do, or threaten to do violence….
Answer : terribly so. Microsoft created an ‘intelligent’ bot, that was designed to have conversations with millennials, adapt and have more conversation. Called Tay, it had a persona that was young and bubbly, and Microsoft – like any proud parent – wanted to…
As though interaction on twitter wasn’t reductionist enough (although, immensely enjoyable & addictive) – they have introduced a binary poll. Yes or no. It is great fun, terribly addictive and requires even lesser interaction. I am expecting polls to take the form…
Interesting read on why Twitter is dying Here’s my tiny theory, in a word. Abuse. And further, I’m going to suggest in this short essay that abuse — not making money — is the great problem tech and media have. The problem of abuse is the…
My blog for Tehelka When Rahul Gandhi addressed the CII conference, those who oppose him and his party, got #PappuCII (stupid) to trend on Twitter. A few days later when Narendra Modi addressed the FICCI conference, Congress supporters on Twitter got #Feku…
At 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…
… 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…