Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

Bad, bad Indians. No Karma for you.

What say we sum up this post?

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Really, how can you Indians be so selfish? How can you build a car that will let more of you travel safely from place to place and, gasp, actually enjoy your commute? Hasn’t your ages-old religion with 33,000 gods taught you that you shouldn’t put material gains before spiritual growth, even if spiritual growth means discomfort and poverty? Bad, bad boys.
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Maami coins word. Vetti Dreams.

The Maami, I tell you, is the most brilliant creature to ever inhabit the online world. What follows is proof.

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.

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]

Lines of Grey – A photo exhibition in Chennai

A flickr contact and fellow PSBBian Suchitra Vijayan is behind an organisation called Lines Of Grey.

LoG wants to take photography to children of the streets, and thus give them education of a different kind, and hope. To quote them:

Lines of Grey is an organization that seeks to take photography to the doorsteps of marginalized children in communities around the world. Our vision is not limited to the children in the street of Mombasa or the slums of Dharawi. Our organization comprises of small and passionate group, whose life is intrinsically linked to photography. We share the common faith in the ability of photography to capture the imagination of children, to empower them, build confidence and give them a voice. We believe that education is not limited to the learning of the letters. We are committed to furthering the cause of marginalised children, by taking the road less travelled.