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Back to eternity
Despite being a Star Trek fan, I happen to think that Time is the final frontier, at least in the horizon that I can see. I find it quite intriguing that, though it might be looked on as a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It, Yesterday
Tagged consciousness, Foursquare, God, information, Isaac Asimov, Kahlil Gibran, Lifenaut, Pico Iyer, technology, The Last Question, Time, twitter
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Higher Stakes
The ‘cow slaughter ban’ bill that got passed in the Karnataka assembly sometime back, got a lot of people’s erm, goat, especially Mallus, for many of whom, paradoxically, its a ‘holy cow’ issue. But the phenomenal prospects of wordplay is … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged attention, awareness, beef ban, cow slaughter, intent, Peter Singer, philanthropy, proximity, seth godin, seven pounds, smoking, twitter, will smith
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This connect…..
Perspectives. The ones that will only make sense to yourself. I experience a lot of that – both ways. Cryptic ‘humour’ that I come up with, a book that I read. Maybe one has to be ready to receive that … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged Coldplay, Don't Panic, perspective, Road Movie, twitter
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Social Obligations
Sometime back, I had this conversation with Surekha. Let me give you the context. I subscribe to a lot of sites on Google Reader, and therefore find a lot of links that I want to share. I end up sharing … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged audience, judgment, labels, objectivity, opinion, real time, twitter
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Fire Drill
A few years ago, 3 to be precise, I might’ve been in the thick of it. The fire at Carlton Towers. My visiting card then carried this – Mid Day, 301, Carlton Towers…. No, I wouldn’t have been tweeting, because … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged @jackerhack, carlton towers, death, fire, kiran, Media, mid day, sensationalism, trivialisation, twitter
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The clique friendly web
In spite of the last post, I’m a bit ambivalent about Vir Sanghvi’s column. On one hand, I am in complete agreement with the rebuttals that I have read – Lekhni, Amit, Rohit. Rational and well articulated. And yet, over … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Think About It
Tagged blogging, channels, clique, dogma, judgment, medium, microblogging, mobs, newspapers, people, perspect, perspective, television, twitter, Vir Sanghvi
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Time Off
In an earlier post – “Brood Mode“, I’d written about expectations, and how sometimes, they cannot be met. In the context of that post, Austere had commented thus “Is it the instant-ness demanded of the response that puts one’s brain … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged Austere, expectations, God, Hugh MacLeod, Meeta, Money, Time, time construct, twitter
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Blocking Crowds
Even if you’re not really a 140 type character, you’d have heard about the CBI – Chetan Bhagat Incident, that is. But if you haven’t, not to worry much, we have a link, starring our very own celebrity blogger Nikhil … Continue reading
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Tagged block, Chetan Bhagat, Nikhil Narayanan, Nithin, Surekha, The Comic Project, twitter
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Life…streamers
Sometime back, I read an extremely interesting post by Chris Messina – how we’re now hit by a plethora of data and information on the real time web, which our brains are not adapted, and how, in order to process … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Social Networking, Think About It, Yesterday
Tagged Chris Messina, Cybermen, Homo Evolutis, information, lifestream, lifestreaming, objectivity, processing, speciation, Twitcaps, twitter
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Incommunicado
There’s an old man whom I meet almost everyday now – he’s a parking attendant. He has a speech impediment that renders most of what he’s saying incoherent. He claims to know quite a few languages and from what I … Continue reading
