Repeat, repeated
This post was originally written over 2 years ago. I consider it one of my best pieces of writing. Ever. Looking at it today, it still is relevant and true. Except for the site redesigning part, everything else is the same.
Open road not often this free bike heaving pulling at the leash impatient to go thoughts fly faster tangents and unconnected multiple streams of ideas and fears and expectations and words merging and splitting away to merge back again site needs redesigning a trip cancelled another didn’t materialise need reading up on sanga literature need to fuel up there’s one around the bend haven’t come up with a decent headline in ages portfolio needs tweaking damn that car was close thank god good brakes what do I hear big crash somebody’s hurt bad must be bleeding crazy hey the sky’s a nice shade of magenta
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narrativeOn Microsoft buying Yahoo!
Because I am supposed to have an opinion on the issue of MS buying Y!....
I’d say – go for it, Microsoft. Having seen how Microsoft handles this whole blogging thing the last couple of years, and having seen them handle the communities at MSDN and at other channels, I believe they will be a lot better at nurturing some of Y!’s communities. Especially flickr. Yahoo’s track-record in handling criticism and its content is less than perfect.
If the deal does happen, I will cheer. For, hopefully, it will ease the squeeze on flickr’s balls.
Yahoo! | 
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Staffing, the easy-as-email way
So, you are a headhunting/staffing company. You manage to find and win a client, and have been asked to source a certain number of people for a certain job role.
Now, how would you go about that? If you were a good boringly old fashioned HR company, you would understand your client’s needs, you would understand the requirements for the position on hand, understand what the skillsets and experience required are, and having done that, find people (either online, or through newspaper and tv advertising) who have similar credentials.
How so boring. How so time-consumingly old fashioned! Especially when, you can do it the brilliantly inefficient, incompetent simple, clever way of trawling through Monster India and finding a whole bunch of Indians who will just jump at the offer. So who cares the candidates you’ve shortlisted through Monster don’t even work in the same industry as your client’s?
Got. To. Write. Something.
Three posts currently in draft mode:
1) Why Goundamani and Senthil are geniuses – or the long, boring post on humour
2) More on the Wedding Futures market, answering questions – or the SelAm attempt at going intellectual
3) Theatre of Dionysus – or a post on Greek and Tamil satire.
Meanwhile, subscribe to the Chennai Metblogs. The scene’s going to hot up there, during May.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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