In which Chandrachoodan attempts to groom himself
It’s true. My hair hates central authority. I can never get it to stick to a plan/style I formulated.
A partial reading of Tipping Point
Yes, I know. The book – Tipping Point – is old. I should have read it about 4-5 years ago.
Anyway, reading it, I thought of something.
The Mavens, the Connectors, the Salesmen, are all very pre-blogging, definitely pre-web2.0, animals. (Though, that is a result of the tipping point.) You see, bloggers, all of us, are connectors rolled into mavens rolled into salesmen. True, some of us are more connectors than others (I am) and some of us are more mavens than connectors or more mavens than salesmen, but the fact is, we are all, all three.
Which leads to an interesting thought (for me at least). How do you reach a tipping point on the web in this – the Web2.0, big buttons, cascading style sheets and I have a facebook and orkut and ryze and linkedin profile – world of ours? How do I use this maven+connector+salesman blogger better? When do I use the maven part of a blogger and when the salesman part?
Sounds like another post in the making.
Names for n00b blogs.
- The fourth wall, broken.
- W.I.P
- Descended from Gutenberg
- Lascaux
Why am I doing this? Because he raised the issue ages ago. About time some one addressed it.
Now, its Reservation in Private Sector
UP seems to taken the lead in implementing the much spoken about Reservation in the Private Sector. It would not be long before others jump into the fray.
I personally feel this would not do any good either to the “reserver” or the “reserved”, though I am unable to substantiate on this factually. But this would definitely help vote bank politics in India.
The TOI supports free speech
The Times Of India, in an editorial, says that it is a liberal newspaper in the classic sense and that it supports free speech.
Similarly, angry e-mailer sir, you don’t have to buy the Times of India if you find it a repulsive banana newspaper, whatever that means. Just don’t try to intimidate us by ridicule or threats, though we shall defend your right to do so till we cease publishing
Noble, noble thoughts. Especially the point about not intimidating, and about defending someone’s right to disagree with them.
Except, um, I am reminded of Mediaah! and 19 posts that TOI wanted to be removed or else.
[TOI link via Shruti]
Supreme Court allows Jallikattu but under supervision
CNN IBN reports. I would wait for a more reliable source to verify. But this is not bad. I might even hold back my suit.
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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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