Amit Banerjee from Kolkata runs a website and he publishes a very useful tech tip almost daily. Read up the latest one:
You have a dozen of usernames and passwords to remember which becomes unmanageable with time. You have passwords for your emails accounts, social sites, blog accounts etc. The problem with secure passwords is that [...]
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Daily tech tips at the Ampercent blog
Published by December 11th, 2009 in IT and Internet. 1 CommentA little feud between Chetan Bhagat (yes, of Five-Point-Someone fame) and the Rational Fool (@jojiphilip on Twitter) escalated into a mud-slinging public spectacle. Of course, nothing makes a more spicy story than something like this. Hop over to Rohit’s blog chronicling this drama:
This started a massive surge of tweets related and unrelated to this incident [...]
IISc and the Slow Death of Innovation
Published by August 23rd, 2009 in Development, Education, India, Internet and Policy. 0 CommentsPrithwiraj is upset with IISc’s plans to restrict internet access to it’s denizens. An interesting read.
In the recent past there has been a flurry of articles (press releases?) in various sections of the media, hailing J.N. Tata’s gift to India on its centennial year, and the high quality of academic research being performed by the [...]
Insight Young Voices is a bimonthly Dalit magazine.
The latest issue carries an interesting article, by Anoop Kumar, on the evolution of Dalit student politics in JNU:
The reasons may be varied – the predominance of students from a particular segment of the society or the ‘party line’ with which the student activists are ideologically committed, or [...]
On Savita Bhabhi
Published by June 14th, 2009 in Fiction, Gender & Sexuality, Internet, Society and Women. 5 CommentsItty Abraham researches Savita Bhabhi:
Or are we closer to Ashok, driven by the pressures of an unrelenting work schedule, who never gets a chance to enjoy the fruits of the new urban paradise that his labors have helped create? Doomed to invisibility if he ever gets off the treadmill, his rewards are a domestic space [...]
Socializing in the online world, Kima says, is ‘quite the opposite’ of what’s regarded as normal offline:
“You see, I know him by his online nick only, and I call him just by that name. I know his profession, I know what kinda music he likes, I know his birth-date, I know which political party he [...]
‘I, the Writer’
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Books, Business, Internet, Media and Personal. 1 CommentRanjani Ravi, aspiring writer and young entrepreneur, talks about how he worked on the launch of I, the Writer (‘India’s first literary digital magazine for aspiring writers’):
I had my university exams in the second week of May. Thankfully, my university exams got over by 9th! So, I started working from 10th. I had chosen Joomla [...]
Ultra Violet
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Blogging, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, Human Rights, Internet, Patriarchy, Society and Women. 0 Comments..is back. At http://ultraviolet.in in a new home. Please go check.
Check the inaugural issue of Wide Screen, ‘a peer-reviewed, open access journal’ devoted to the ‘critical study of cinema from historical, theoretical, political, and aesthetic perspectives’.
Burma Digest
Published by May 12th, 2009 in Activism, Human Rights, Internet, Media and World. 0 CommentsFound this interesting online bilingual magazine that focusses on ‘Human Right Affairs of Burma’.
Is MTNL broadband connection annoying you ? Then Prax has some tips & tricks just for you. The post has some useful links as well.
2. Note the CA NUMBER as a rule you will always need it.
If you don’t seem to get it on time , and this is very possible you can get it [...]
Mid-Day: ‘Why blogs are angry on Burka Dutt?’
Published by February 3rd, 2009 in Blogging, Democracy, Human Rights, India, Internet, Justice, Media and NDTV. 0 CommentsFinally, one mainstream publication has picked up the story. We salute the Mid-Day and B.F.Firos for publishing this report on the NDTV/Kunte issue:
Call it a war between a Goliath and many Davids! Blogs are up in arms against NDTV’s Barkha Dutt after the TV channel sued a blogger who attacked her coverage of Mumbai terror [...]
The Hoot’s non-response on the NDTV/Kunte issue
Published by February 3rd, 2009 in Blogging, Democracy, Human Rights, India, Internet, Justice, Media and NDTV. 0 CommentsThe HOOT responds with a non-response and what seems like a judgement:
A blogger indulged in some abusive free speech about Barkha Dutt’s reporting of the Mumbai seige. And invited a legal notice for defamation from NDTV. The Hoot presents the original offending post, and its subsequent withdrawal.
The blogosphere has come out unreservedly in [...]
More free lessons for NDTV
Published by February 3rd, 2009 in Blogging, Democracy, Human Rights, Internet, Media and NDTV. 0 CommentsCyril Gupta is ‘disgusted with NDTV’:
For a channel that purports to stand for ‘free expression’ and whose reporters/anchors can be often seen making negative statements about politicians and issues all and sundry without immediately flashing relevant proof to back up their claim, this act is not only unwarranted, it’s downright heinous.
You MUST check the cartoon [...]
Criticism and praise
Published by December 5th, 2008 in 26/11, Blogging, India, Internet, Media and Terrorism. 1 CommentSakshi thinks petitions won’t achieve much:
So thank you. But no on Petitions. Not even the one that says ban Barkha Dutt. Well, I might think over that one.
And commenting on that observation, bongopondit pleads:
“But no on Petitions. Not even the one that says ban Barkha Dutt.”
Please…..please…..PLEASE ……I want to sign this one and forward it [...]
Citizen journalism
Published by December 1st, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Internet, Media and Terrorism. 0 CommentsEven as I continue to track instances of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terror attack on this post, I’m trying to make sense of what happened in a work-in-progress case study and a Flickr set of screenshot on the role of social media in the Mumbai terror attack.
Gaurav Mishra checks real time citizen journalism during [...]
What’s that? Kiruba explains:
The first Wikipedia Academy got off to a nice start today. For those of you new to the concept, its an effort to teach and encourage more people to contribute to Wikipedia in terms of knowledge. Most of us just consume Wikipedia but don’t bother to edit or add any information. The [...]
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