Every night I walk back home with so many things playing on my mind; which I would probably want to write about….I reach home, take a nice hot water bath and sit down with my laptop (with things still playing on my mind), open ‘word’ and I don’t know what happens to me I just go blank. I just can’t think what I wanted to write about or I just can’t put it in words!! Does this happen to everybody? Or is it just ‘me’… Anyways I promise to sort things out in my mind and write something interesting again. Till then please bear with me. Tomorrow is my first day at a new place, a place I had applied for in my first month in London and a place I have wanted to work since the last 2 months. I am excited and nervous at the same time. Wish me luck!!
It’s been ages since I have posted something here..sorry brother I haven’t been a regular guest blogger. I am just plain lazy most of the time and how much ever you coax me into starting my own blog, I love being a guest blogger here. It gives me a choice, an option.
A small introduction to all those who know me and for those who don’t . I am varun’s younger brother… right now in London training (u can read trying also) to be a chef(someday for sure). I was in Vishakapatnam for nearly a year working with The Park Hotel managing their beachside restaurant called Bamboo Bay. I was also in Navi Mumbai for 6 months undergoing training with The Park, Belapur. Navi Mumbai is one of the best places I have lived so far, obviously apart from aapnu Ahmedabad. It was majorly because I was just 2 hours from Mumbai where Varun lived and I loved the hustle bustle than came with living in Mumbai . Even though Mumbai is one of the most crowded cities in the world, Navi Mumbai is so just the opposite. Calm and quiet with just enough shopping malls, cheap eateries etc. I lived in an awesome 2 bedroom flat which I shared with another guy called Azhar. A balcony as big as 2 10 by 10 bedrooms put together and bedrooms with huge sliding windows. I have had one of my craziest birthdays here. I loved local trains. The journeys from borivili to belapur were always the time to think..so many things… Navi Mumbai is the place where I met one of my closest friends …the wink is necessary…Rains were always amazing here. Me and Azhar moved into this flat by chance but both of us loved living here. We were a small group of friends who would rent a car and travel to Mumbai every weekend or atleast every fortnight to party, wake up at 3 in the afternoon and talk about the party for the rest of week.. I would always love to work in Mumbai or Navi Mumbai but never settle down here (just like varun).
NDTV forces Chyetanya Kunte to apologize for and retract his post criticizing Barkha Dutt’s coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. The post is still available on Google cache (scroll down to the last post). After TOI and IIPM it is NDTV’s turn to use its legal muscle power and influence to browbeat a blogger into submission. More info at DesiPundit.com
My friend and co-worker Jake who is also the most vocal advocate of Microsoft technologies I know of, starts blogging – Jake on IT. Welcome to the world of blogging Jake!
Feed a block of text or a URL to wordle.net, tweak a few options (words layout, font, colours etc.) and voila! you have a cool looking frequency-based cloud of the words in that block of text. Click on the thumbnail below to see it in action, the input being the URL to this blog. Cool, isn’t it? This is not just a good tool to play around with but can also be used to generate graphics for presentations, documents etc.
Since ages technology has kept on making it easier to share information. From Gutenberg’s press to current day blogs it has become easier to record something and share it with others. The Internet is especially powerful in this regard. The Internet in general and Web 2.0 in particular have made it easier for content creators to become content publishers. However safeguards, both hard and soft, that exist in traditional media are non-existent or weak in the real world.
10 years ago it was probably more difficult for a photographer to share his work with the world. But this automatically made it more difficult to copy his work. Today any photographer, even a super-amateur, point-and-click, smile-please, photographer like me can have a dedicated Flickr stream But with the ease of sharing also comes the ease of copying.
Case in point – the great Times of India using Twilight Fairy’s picture without her permission. And when she brings this up with the editor no apology is forthcoming, the discussion about compensation stops at the low figure of Rs 1500 and Twilight Fairy is asked to sue or shut up. Nice going TOI!
By its very nature online media is more “free”, more free than traditional media in the sense that creating content, publishing content, accessing content, all are much easier (cheaper) than traditional media. Preventing plagiarism, technically, is usually not possible and all schemes will fail sooner of later. The only way to reduce plagiarism is for at least the biggies to be ethical and for the law and government to make it easier to prosecute and penalize copyright violators.
Sigh. TOI used to be my favourite daily around 10 years ago. But is has been steadily going downhill ever since, so much so that I stopped reading it years ago.
…the wink is necessary…Rains were always amazing here. Me and Azhar moved into this flat by chance but both of us loved living here. We were a small group of friends who would rent a car and travel to Mumbai every weekend or atleast every fortnight to party, wake up at 3 in the afternoon and talk about the party for the rest of week.. I would always love to work in Mumbai or Navi Mumbai but never settle down here (just like varun).
But with the ease of sharing also comes the ease of copying.
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