Beth Watkins calls herself the Foreign Minister of Shashi Pradesh and has taken an oath to share with the world any Shashiliciousness she may come across. This blogger from Illinois is a Shashi Kapoor devotee and writes about him and all things Bollywood on the popular Beth loves Bollywood. She started the blog in 2005… Continue reading Firangi filmi bloggers
Category: – New media
internet, SMS, mobile technology
Do-Re-Mi at Antwerp Station
I have a big smile on my face this morning. Not that I woke up smiling. I never do, el grumpo is what I am when I wake up. This morning, I opened my mail to see this forward – a flash mob dancing to do-re-mi at the Antwerp Central Station. Now flash mobs are… Continue reading Do-Re-Mi at Antwerp Station
Campaigning in the times of technology
Gone are the days of one rupee rice and free saris – now is the time of ecampaigning… so this – Congress to set up Internet kiosks across India to attract youth and this – BJP promises free mobiles to poor, broadband for all at INR 200… Good idea. Then you can call your local… Continue reading Campaigning in the times of technology
Taking to the net
Spain’s barefoot nuns put faith in YouTube to find new convent recruits, reports the Guardian. It goes like this – For the 11 remaining “Barefoot Carmelite” nuns at the San Jose convent in Ecija, near the southern Spanish city of Seville, the future looked grim. The Mother Superior was persuaded by friends to put up… Continue reading Taking to the net
Outsourcing weddings
Welcome to BPOshaadi.com – a place to find your BPO soulmate. Why would someone need only a BPO soulmate, even a BPO soul? Other sites from the same network – Mangliks.com, Govtshaadi.com, Specialshaadi.com, Thirtyplusshaadi.com, BPOdating.com. Oh, wow. Go figure. I already have.
Secondshaadi
Browsing through TV channels this evening after a long time, I saw an ad for secondshaadi.com (alright, so it has been ages since I watched television, not counting peripheral vision soaps when I find myself in Chennai). Old woman, old man, young girl, small kid, each of them talks to someone off-screen, listen to me…… Continue reading Secondshaadi
Looking for a cybercafe
My husband spent an hour yesterday in Bandra looking for a cybercafe to send an urgent mail – time was when he would have found ten on the same street. He did find ten – gaming parlours – where there were cybercafes earlier. In one, he says, there were unoccupied computers but the manager refused… Continue reading Looking for a cybercafe
Now virtual education…
The last time I wrote on this, I had over a hundred comments, most of them from “post-graduates with teaching skills” (but not terribly good spelling skills, I may add), all of them asking me for details on that – but here goes anyway, from new York Times – Hello, India? I Need Help With… Continue reading Now virtual education…
Mousewives and email users
Came acorss this recent report from the Pew internet and American Life project… For what claims to be a ‘wide-ranging study’, the report seems to me full of stereotypes-exist-therefore-will-reinforce statements and worse, “findings” which really say nothing new… A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue… Continue reading Mousewives and email users
The democratic model on wikipedia
BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting asks Does Wikipedia need editors and points to a post on Nicholas Carr’s blog. The law of the wiki is an interesting dicsussion on the idea of ‘quality’ on wikipedia. Here he suggests that posts on arcane topics are better than those on general topics, since only people with some specialized knowledge and… Continue reading The democratic model on wikipedia