From the monthly archives:

December 2007

links for 2007-12-30

December 30, 2007

apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class) danah shares some findings from the latest Pew report on Teens and Social Media. Interesting finding and not surprising to me – youth who are most active online, are also highly active offline. So much for those who believe that the online world [...]

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links for 2007-12-29

December 29, 2007

Cool Hunting: The Synchronicity Project Jun asks people all over the world to take a picture of what they are doing at a pre-determined moment in time. These pictures, along with a brief explanation of the time and place they are taken, are then displayed on the Synchronicity website as a portr (tags: coolhunting community [...]

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Should we fear?

December 28, 2007

I have a group of 13 clients coming in from the US, Mexico and France, early-Jan, on a Learning Journey .  Naturally, they have concerns after yesterday’s events, with a lot of the western media talking of Al Qaeda and unrest and potential violence in the entire region.  I hope Pakistan stays calm and looks [...]

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Benazir Bhutto Assassination

December 27, 2007

I’m tweeting reactions from India as reported on English TV news channels around Benazir Bhutto’s brazen assassination. Follow the updates here, if you’re interested. Updates so far: – Musharraf says political parties should be united against terrorists. Feeling here … how convenient blaming terrorists. 7 minutes ago – Musharraf on TV now: This is the [...]

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Nach Baliye 3 Result – glory and shame

December 22, 2007

Just finished watching the finals of Nach Baliye 3 – am so glad Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Shaikh won – I feel they were really the best dancers, especially Sanjeeda. What shocked me was the unsporting behaviour of Rakhi Sawant and Abhishek who lost, walked off the stage, didn’t come on to take their runners-up [...]

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links for 2007-12-22

December 22, 2007

BBC NEWS | Health | Wii players need to exercise too heh. really??? my wii has never worked for a day since i bought it in london last year. no wonder i still need to knock off 5 kgs!! i finally found someone to take it back to london – hopefully it will be back [...]

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Invasive or Transformative – mobile phones now read you

December 22, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb shares, with some optimism and a lot of caution, the Reality Mining project, being conducted by the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab. They are processing more than 350,000 hours of data collected from peoples’ cell phones. More than just who calls who, Pentland is also studying proximity, [...]

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Morphing from a qualitative researcher to a mobile phone industry expert?

December 22, 2007

It’s funny – in the last month, I have been interviewed as an ‘expert’ on the mobile phone scene and its future in India by representatives of companies like Nokia and some large telcos (NDA’s prevent me from naming them!). Moni Kivirauma from Finland was here a few weeks ago and she gifted me the [...]

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links for 2007-12-20

December 20, 2007

Pew Internet: More teens are creating and sharing material on the internet 28% of online teens have blogs and blogging growth is almost entirely fueled by girls; Super communicators rise as email fades as a communication tool for teens (tags: youth research socialmedia pewinternet) The Evolution of Personal Publishing – ReadWriteWeb Fred Wilson recently wrote [...]

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Soul Food

December 20, 2007

My collection of quotes that really inspire me to be who I am and to live the way I do today – added to the navigational banner: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the [...]

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Tweeting about a Twitter Meet-up in Mumbai

December 20, 2007

It’s a first for Mumbai Tweeters. Gaurav Mishra has the details. See you there!

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Friends of my blog …

December 18, 2007

There’s nothing like blog friends to make you feel guilty about ignoring your blog!!!!! Stuart first slaps his own wrist makes his affirmations a couple of days ago, Aparna pings me today with a one-liner in her sign-off on a quick chat we had today: “ok gotto go now – will talk more about the [...]

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links for 2007-12-08

December 8, 2007

Rajesh @ Blogworks : blogs & social media in India; public relations; brands & marketing! rajesh lalwani writes an article for Hindustan Times – CEO’s Guide to Blogging (tags: blogworks rajeshlalwani socialmedia corporateblogging CEO) Rajesh @ Blogworks : blogs & social media in India; public relations; brands & marketing! good summary of yesterday’s brouhaha in [...]

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links for 2007-12-07

December 7, 2007

DeliciousSafari another delicious-safari plugin (tags: ) Top 10 Safari Plugins testing them out (tags: mashable) [V] My India Report Channel V has brought in some popular young Indian bloggers like Sakshi Juneja and Melody Laila into a group blog on young India (tags: ) Beth and Chris – Live from India beth and chris (chris [...]

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