A new paradigm: Social Investigation through Social Networks
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 Posted in General, India, NewAge, Social Computing | No Comments »Disclaimer: This post makes a reference to the death of a young girl in Mumbai. I never knew her but I wish that her soul rests in peace and I really hope her murderer is found and duly punished. However, ...
The sanctity of a complete album
Monday, December 11th, 2006 Posted in Gumption, Music, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Does having playlists of mp3s in random order mask the "full album" experience that we used to have a not so long time ago? Back in the tape days, I would have complete albums which I would play and get ...
Wikipedia asking for what content should be freed
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Jimmy Wales is asking people to come up with ideas and suggestions about what premium content they would like to be freed up and made available in the public domain if they had the money to do it. Dream big. ...
Virtual World vs Real World
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Progress, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »Is our Real World losing all detail while the Virtual Worlds gathers more life? Read the Gizmodo article from frog Design Mind called Closing the Loop
Personal Fabrication - not too distant reality
Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Technology | No Comments »If you could make anything you wanted, what would it be? The Dream Factory The concept is simple: Boot up your computer and design whatever object you can imagine, press a button to send the CAD file to Lewis' headquarters in New ...
Open Source Movie!!
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Progress, Technical | No Comments »"You can help us realizing this project by purchasing the DVD of the movie in advance. The DVDs will include the movie in high quality widescreen, making-of documentaries and all production files. And even better, all orders before September 1 ...
Out goes the reel, theatres may now stream movies off the Internet
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Progress | No Comments »Now they have developed a technology using which you can "Broadcast Movies Directly to Theatres(Read more at wired.com)":http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68332,00.html Now, isn't that amazing. So basically a theatre will become a huge TV.
Katsuya Matsumura’s PC Cases
Monday, July 25th, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Technology | No Comments »Katsuya Matsumura makes PC cases which are very "different". Take a look here
Broadband in Andhra Pradesh - Aksh bags Rs 400cr broadband project
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Technical, Web | No Comments »A consortium led by Gurgaon-based Aksh Broadband Limited has been selected to implement the Rs 400-crore Andhra Pradesh broadband project, which aims at extending broadband services to each and every village of the state in the next two years. The ...
Canadian Laws on Multimedia sharing / copying
Monday, December 27th, 2004 Posted in General, NewAge, Privacy, Technical | No Comments »Read this for the Canadian laws on File Sharing. They are very pro-consumer and extremely sensible. Take a look. Copying music is not illegal as long as it is for Personal use. That's the spirit.
The Bazee MMS thing - Making sense of Non-sense
Monday, December 20th, 2004 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Privacy, Social | No Comments »Click here to read it. An interesting article with a very clear stand on the issue.
An amazing look at the future
Monday, December 20th, 2004 Posted in NewAge | No Comments »This is a must see movie clip The Future of the World It's a mindblowingly superb take at what technology is aiming at. Very interesting and very beautifully made.
The best page in the Universe - Maddox
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 Posted in NewAge | 1 Comment »MADDOX A very interesting page.
Sodomy
Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 Posted in NewAge | No Comments »Some food for thought.Whats wrong with homosexuality.Its time to re-evaluate the answer in the present paradigm.http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030327