Social media axis of evil

There is so much you can learn by just following smart bloggers. One of the blog I really dig is Fred Wilson’s. He is by far the most impressive practitioner of Thesis driven investing. On his blog he maintains list of Internet axis of evil. Its on the lower left side of the page. I [...]

Hiring bloggers and paying bloggers

Blogging is fascinating in the sense that it allows one to stretch their half-baked ideas and add to their knowledge base by linking and repurposing content. People have their own theories on what’s the best way to blog and how frequently you should do it.
Writing style drives how much effort needs to go into writing [...]

Google News adds perspectives from news actors

When your neighbor’s marriage is in trouble. One thing you don’t do is to make a publishing career out of that episode.
Google News is exactly  doing that by allowing news actors to chime in with their comments NOT ON THEIR original news site but on Google website. Why not just give them blogspot account [...]

Bill Watterson on Calvin and Hobbes

Some quotable quotes from the master himself:
On the future of newspaper comics -
The Internet may well provide a new outlet for cartoonists, but Iimagine it’s very hard to stand out from the sea of garbage, attract alarge audience, or make money. Newspapers are still the major leaguesfor comic strips . . . but I [...]

Got Ad?

Anywhere the eyes can see:
Yankelovich, a market research firm, estimates that a person living ina city 30 years ago saw up to 2,000 ad messages a day, compared with upto 5,000 today. About half the 4,110 people surveyed last spring byYankelovich said they thought marketing and advertising today was outof control.
Cognitive overload is around the [...]

Contenders for the social entrepreneur award

World Economic Forum will be selecting a winner from the impressive list of social enterpreneurs:
Amitabha Sadangi of International Development Enterprises India (IDEI). IDEI has developed and marketed affordable small-plot micro-irrigation technologies to India’s marginal and small farmers.
Padmanabha Rao and Rama Rao of Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER). RIVER has developed a multi-grade, multi-level [...]

Open source cinema

Swarm of Angel project team has updated the website. Now the focus is on spreading the message. I became angel for this group few months back to understand if the notion of  “open source cinema” is even feasible. If you are not sure what this project is then this is a brief overview from their [...]

It’s all about team

and playing with passion

Nice video.

Google is not evil if you are their partner

Who decides the relevant message?“The concept is that if we can be there wherever anybody is at any point in time — it’s a very grandiose ambition of course — but we could serve a relevant message to that person wherever they are, whenever they’re looking for it.”
They need to give one copy of 1984 [...]

Macro projections of micro events - MSM style

Ok this news is tragic. 3 year old kid getting kidnapped is bad and tragic irrespective of the country or social class. What is really funny in that tragic news is how some media folks are analyzing it. Check this hilarious, blown out of proportions commentary by Bill Snyder:
The shocking crime has riveted [...]