Blogs

Blogs are a very unique form of communication where intended receipient of the communication can be either be:
a. a selected few - donot list your blog publicly; announce the url to a few selected.
b. masses - list it publicly; post interesting articles; link your blog from other well know sites, so that google with do the rest.
c. one's own self - blog can either be listed or otherwise; but basically one writes for self. For memories, for creating a repository, for serving as dairy, for creating literature or just for the sake of writing.

Of late, blogs are pushing role of individuals in the area where conventional media has had a major role in last 5 years, providing news, like Gaurav Sabnis' blog which created flutter amongst IIPM people (which was followed by a `lawsuit';). Also, there are cases where blogs are more authentic source of info compared to media (see nov's PCQuest for reference about blogs during iraq war). Some biggies like Google, write blogs officially (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/).

It is, certainly, very interesting how every 10-15 years there is a change in the way we communicate with the outside world. Though not as 'killer' as email is but definitely blogs have created their own space in the array of communication tools and they are here to stay.

A year that was....

May be a bit early...but just had a few points in mind...so thought about posting this...

This is what has been happening in my life...well almost

- just coming to the terms of real life...industry...a lot of other farce.

- going places,visited:

salasar
khatu shyam
kesroli
mumbai
singapore
calcutta
allahabad
kanpur
lucknow
that's nine....will try to make a perfect 10

- got close to fame...so near yet so far
- published two articles in PCquest..wow
- two sourceforge projects....!!
- went abroad for the first time....still wonder why people are crazy for such places.
- have opportunity to visit italy & belgium.....funny, ain't very interested.
- completed a quarter of being a living being...
- expecting a lot of interesting things to happen in near future....see very less chances of staying at home, minimum for next 6 months...actually, wanna take a break myself but not a long one:(...then there is a big thing to happen middle of next year.....wow...can't wait!!
- feel closer to art/literature/religion...want to learn more and more about own culture
- a member of alumni association of school...planning for a big bash on 25th december ...hmm...should be interesting.
- had blues quite often...will put conscious effort of not being so in the coming days.
- have developed ability to talk...about a varied things...alright, it was over the years...if somebody is meeting me after a long time would definitely be shocked.

[added 22/02/06]
how could i forget these!!
- Was all-over in 'Allahabad/Lucknow/Kanpur' papers. Photos in local papers, including TOI, HT, Dainik jagran etc of medalists of IIIT-A
- First TV interview (if you could call that) for Sahara-UP!!! (same context)...`told' young students to be more focussed on R&D and products, rather than services.....ahem, ahem!!