The Idea-smithy

I was on TV last week!!
UTV Bloomberg has a show called Techtree, which is half an hour of entertaining clips and titbits relating to technology. I discovered it after I got interview by them about our Twitter group’s work at The Wall Project. The show has a slightly different format now and a new host, [...]

Neha Tara Mehta has written a very interesting article for Mail Today about social networking in India. She looks at the popularity of Orkut, Facebook and Twitter as well as the attitudes of their various subscriber groups. I along with several other bloggers including the ‘ooh-I-wish-he-wasn’t-gay’ Harish Iyer and WATblog founder Rajiv Dhingra have been [...]

I was quoted in Neha Bhayana’s story about Internet addiction & restricting net connectivity in Sunday Hindustan Times on 6 September 2009.
Reformed Net addicts Ramya (30) and Moksh Juneja (27) said that there is no need to have regulations. “Adults should be allowed to decide what is best for them. It is not fair to [...]

I wrote an article about Twitter which was published in the September 2009 issue of Marie Claire, which has just come out on the stands right now. If you’re already an avid Tweeter, it won’t say anything that you don’t know already. If you’re a techie, you’ll probably turn your nose up at what I’ve [...]

Mail Today/ South Delhi Plus (I saw the online version on Mail Today but a friend told me he saw it in South Delhi Plus) did a story on Internet addiction yesterday. I’ve been quoted in the main piece and there’s a separate mini-piece with my views.
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(Photograph courtesy Sumit Jagdale)

My muscle aches some [...]

I’m just back from Pune Blogcamp2. My weekend began at 4:30am, being woken up by Astra who got the timings wrong by an hour. I grunted and went back to sleep only to get up and rush out half an hour later. Emboldened by the hour, I walked up to a bunch of guys standing [...]

The literary world is never boring. And social media is never quiet. Put them together and what have we? My new passion is the NovelRace that Aditya and Samit have organized. Several people, serious writers and others are scribbling away furiously (okay tapping away on their keyboards), to see who can complete a novel of 60, [...]