Why Write ?

This question is bugging me lately and trying to find my own answer to this. Why do people write ?  Flipping through Robert Miller’s Motives for writing I find following common reasons people use as a motivation
to record a memory ( travelogues and Biography kind of writings)to explore the selfto explore an idea (similar to [...]

Google here and Google there

And Google everywhere !
Yesterday morning started with one analyst claiming that the right price for Google is at $30.  Bambi sure picked the right day to take this interview (video interview is in archive now).
Day ended with analysts cheering for Google and stock went up by $30 in after hours trading.
During  daytime publishers finally [...]

It’s all about trust

Jeff Jarvis has nailed this web2.0 thing right on - It’s all about trust !  During the initial web growth our  understanding was mostly around how things differ between the physical world and the emerging online world. This time it’s all about making a trust-based distinction between different online services. 
In his latest post he [...]

Weblog usability issues

Not only my blog content sucks but its  aesthetically poor as well.  That according to  UI guru Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog usability mistakes.
He has identified following 10  weblog  usability issues -
1. No Author Biographies2. No Author Photo3. Nondescript Posting Titles4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go5. Classic Hits are Buried6. The Calendar is the Only [...]

Science of interruption

Clive Thompson chases the advancements in the science of interruption. (I interrupted myself to read that article and then got interrupted quickly before I could finish reading it completely.)
Anyways here are few interesting tidbits from the article -
Information is no longer a scarce resource - attention is. David Rose,
a Cambridge, Mass.-based expert on computer [...]

Open Sour Contract

If there is one thing open source community lacks then it has to be the patience required to understand and adapt to the legal contractual base of the open source business model. It’s a very unsexy thing to do and downright boring most of the time.
Whereas if they are putting their money where [...]

Big Idea

Nova has been producing excellent science documentaries lately. Their production quality is simply outstanding.  Today’s documentary on  KQED was all about E=mc(2). Titled Einstein’s Big Idea it was a quite a feast for both mind and eyes.  I would highly recommend this to anybody interested in physics and general stories of the  golden era [...]

Get ready for iHotel

Vinnie points to recent buzz around technology improvements in the hotels category.  Somebody who travels every now and then I will say - It’s about time.
I will wait for the day when I can leave my laptop at home and still access all the data and application no matter where I am in the [...]

Lots of tiny psychological effects

After all there seems to be a sound theory why we  fall for the warm and fuzzy ad servings.  Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, has found a connection between market demand and our psychological  map.
tiny psychological effects can have potentially enormous impact on demand, more of an impact than price

This theory comes out more convincing [...]

Asian politics

Fareed Zakaria interviewing Ashley Tellis on KQED about growing relationship between US and India.
Ashley commented US might play India as Britain while dealing with the new Asian political landscape

Next 20 years in Asia are shaping up  like Europe in the time after WWII - new alignments and lot of introspection.