The Idea-smithy

“And this is Kunal.”
“Are you on Twitter?”
“Yes, I’m @c00nal.”
“I don’t think I FOLLOW you.”
“I don’t follow you either.”
Kunal frowns as he turns to the Hot Dog stand.
“I think I hurt his ego a bit.”
“You just met!”
“Social boo-boo, telling someone you don’t follow them on Twitter.”
“What rubbish, nobody cares about these things.”
“Some people do. Maybe he’s [...]

We concluded the first Mumbai BlogCamp of 2010 on Saturday, 20 Feb 2010. First of all, thank you and congratulations are due to Gaurav, Adil, Arushi and their team at ACM for setting up a great venue for us. My backbencher-at-college days of yore had not prepared me for the spanking new campus, the soft [...]

Another writing exercise and this one I thought up myself! (Pat on the back…thank you, thank you). The challenge was to write a 140-word story about Twitter. Samir and I did this under a timer. And finished in close to 14 minutes. I call this a twory.
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An 80s song went,
“The instant generation….Instant food, instant [...]

Announcing the first BlogCamp of 2010!
For those of you who don’t know, BlogCamp is an unconference, an open forum of social media users. BlogCamp began as a module of BarCamp (which looks at the wider net of technology and business) but has gained enough popularity to merit an event of its own.
The format is as [...]

So I’ve already preached on the value of good manners on the blogosphere. But now that blogs are a tad passe, the only way to keep up is to keep it short and sweet. In other words – 140 characters.
And here’s the man that preaches Tweetiquette, true to form within the prescribed 140 characters!
Annkur wore this [...]

Come join the charity drive in honour of @tbitch
who suffers deeply from a lack of a sense of humour and originality.

Share a funny joke (not a mean one)
or an original idea with her at @tbitch.

I wrote this post a really long time ago (which you’ll be able to tell from the outdated references). But I think it still holds true, even more today than earlier. So what say? Are we spiralling into a world of isolation while living in an illusion of connectedness?
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I was one of the laggard consumers in the [...]