The Idea-smithy

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 [...]

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, [...]

Mail Today carried a story today on women bloggers and the problems we face. Yours truly has been quoted alongside a number of promiment ladies on the blogosphere.
 (Click the image below to see the full story)

Some of you may recognize the trolly character I’ve mentioned in the story. For the others, I found his comments [...]

I was interviewed by BlogAdda.
It feels a little odd to blow my own trumpet, but hell if this was offline media, I’d have clipped and filed it away. :-p So here goes my first online media mention. And yes, I’m jumping up and down.