InProgress..

Feeling Blue

2006-08-17T16:19:00.000+09:00

Here are some popular blues on the web right now..

MJK94ME

2005-12-13T18:09:00.000+09:00

Flickr Tags of places

2005-12-12T01:02:00.000+09:00

This gives an idea of the most photogenic places of the world; or

This gives an idea of who all are flickring most in this world.

* blogger : journalist :: tick : sheep

2005-11-18T20:45:00.000+09:00

Nov18 2005
Blogging is good. The personal publishing thing is a paradigm shift. etc. Pause. Here's the other side of blogging. A blog has the author's views one after the other (can I say linear ?). Most of them are disconnected while sometimes a categorization is used to group some posts together.
Our brain, on the other hand learns through association or rote methods. For the interest of learning we should follow up what we have written. Otherwise what one writes is lost in the stack of posts.

For example a techno blog gives an info about the new PS3 console gamer. I like it immediately and give a link to the site or put some image from that site on my own blog. Some other day, some other news with my overlapping interest, and it goes on and on. After some time I lose track of them and stack lots of trivia which could in turn be valuable knowledge if used correctly.
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May15 2005
Found an iteresting article on blogs. It compares blogs and journalism. An excerpt.

SEARCHING FOR A METAPHOR by John Hiler

Were Bloggers parasites feasting off their Journalist hosts? Or were Bloggers creating a new form of grassroots journalism, one that threatened the extinction of Journalism as we know it?

Then one day it hit me: parasites & hosts, grassroots & extinction... they were all biological metaphors.

All of a sudden, it all made sense! The truth is, Bloggers and Journalists are both parasitic organisms. In biology, we have a term for relationship that seems mutually parasitic: symbiosis, when both organisms benefit from working together. In many ways, bloggers and journalists are in a mutually symbiotic relationship, working together to report, filter and break the news.

The Blogosphere isn't perfect, but it's the most robust and diverse Media Ecosystem we have. As the mechanisms tying it together grow more and more automated, its collective power and influence will start to approach that of any single newspaper or magazine. In many ways, the Blogosphere has become the default forum for intellectual discourse, a sort of intercontinental coffeehouse buzzing with discussion and debate.

See the latest on this
http://www.invisibleweb.com/cgm.asp

On self-sorting

2005-11-18T20:44:00.000+09:00

del.icio.us, flickr, gmail use the categories/tags to mark online content (and now google base categorizes offline content too). what that makes me wonder is - the content could also belong to some category which we dont know about. i might miss putting a certain tag to a file.

Using gmail and flickr, i have come across these potential problems - a. There could be more than one tag to a mail and this gets more complex. There could an option of automatic categorizing (If a mail comes from the domain "microsoft.com", give it a SwareUpdte tag)

there could be a system evolved of Most Common Attributes (MCAs?). flickr tags

* New Media Term

2005-11-18T05:10:00.000+09:00

The examples off new media change with times. In the present (and future) scenario, I believe
new media is Mobile
new media is Online
new media is Wireless
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May 25 2005
Collaborative Media - Rusty Foster, founder of blogsite www.kuro5hin.org

Context: Group journalism.
The site is powered by a software system called Scoop which lets other people contribute to the story. Scoop has four powerful features which let people collaborate on a story on Kuro5hin:

1 Anyone can submit stories about interesting things that you hear about, things you think of, or other things which strike your fancy. This site has an open submission queue.

2 Any user can see and vote on all submitted stories. If you want to see something posted, you can make it happen by participating in the moderation of the stories in the submission queue.

3 Garbage will not be tolerated. Others can and will rate your posts into oblivion.

4 Anyone can post comments about the stories that you see here. ... Commenting is a very good thing, and really helps articles develop into the discussions we like to see here.

Other examples : http://www.metafilter.com/
http://blogdex.net/

* Expelliarmus

2005-11-17T21:40:00.000+09:00

Nov17 05
Harry Potter 4 is releasing tomorrow. The rushes looked quite impressive.
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Jul18 05
I have got the Harry Potter 7 Spoiler right here (my interpretation, of course)!

The last horcrux is in Harry's forehead scar.

Reasons:
a. Out of Harry and Voldermort, one HAS to die. I think if Harry lives then Vold guy cant have the last horcrux.
b. In previous books (at least the ones that I read), everytime Vold is nearby, Harry's scar begins to ache (the soul inside wants to "merge" with the MotherShip ?)

This is the ONLY logical conclusion possible of the whole HP series. What say ?

I think Potter mania will go down from this book. Its getting too complicated. Something like the Matrix Trilogy. First was a complete movie by itself so enjoyed by everyone. The second and third were ONLY for matrix cult-ures/hardcore fans and went over the head for most of the general crowd. So I think the people, tired of riding the Potter broom will want to get over the mania ASAP. So I can see the seventh book releasing pretty soon.

* Lessleep - Non SYites, ignore !

2005-11-17T21:26:00.000+09:00

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Nov17 05
I started a blog dedicated to SY and my contemplations on various topics. Its called inSYtes.
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Oct5 05
The recent PitruPaksha and before that a circular with "observations to be made during special times" set me thinking..
are we getting superstitious or making an effort to go along nature's flow ? i would like to think of this as a reminder taking some time out for the practices. When the time is anti(u), instead of talking useless things we can mantrate. after all, our actions decide our fate..
and as always they are guidelines and not rules.. so the choice is yours.
but i would give anything to know the real reason behind this... hmm
maybe the community is prepared to go to the next level in understanding the human mind and its extraccessories..

i need sleep..

Jai Gurumayi

* UI to NewI

2005-11-17T18:43:00.000+09:00

Since so much talk is happening about web2.0, the technology changes on the web, renewed interest in Javascript, its time for a paradigm shift in the interface for web apps. And also in desk apps. A recent flurry of articles on ET and other business dailies on some Indian companies making innovative products for a highly specialized marke section.
Keep imagining, people !
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SIGGRAPH is featuring more and more game-oriented interfaces since the last couple of years. This time too, the focus was on installations which makes the "intern" get multisensorial feedback. Lots of other papers were presented on video textures, complex hair renderings, and other jargonating topics which are used in spl fx and animations. The day is not far where all of these are used in games too..

ps: (hate the word 'user' so am making short form of 'interaction person' and giving the new name intern)
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Spread the word

2005-10-18T00:21:00.000+09:00

I just realised: The word passion has the letter 't' silent ! The word actually is pass-it-on !
Passion = Pass it on

I dont know if its original or not.. I find it quite liberating though.
Big deal, you'll ask. Well, if you really love something, then you inspire others to believe in it. Its contagious and infectious. Spread your passion around. You might be doing something great to others..

Crores of millions

2005-10-17T11:00:00.000+09:00

This is one thing that I leaves me confused.. how many zeroes in a crore ? How many millions in one crore ? Just for the record,

10 million = 1 crore
10 lakh = 1 million
3 crore would be written as 3,00,00,000
Number of zeros in a million - 6, a billion - 9, a trillion - 12

Also see this

Googley !

2005-10-11T10:49:00.000+09:00

If we type a word in google search that is spelt wrong, even then there will be hajaar sites with that wrong word. Its so fun to watch common grammaticals on global sites (at least english ones).. :P

try mislaneous

Special Mallu Party -

2005-09-22T06:50:00.000+09:00

poster by meghna james - mallu by birth, aethist by nature - YenjoY

Form of the future ?

2005-09-14T12:46:00.000+09:00

(Accessories shown will NOT be part of the standard equipment. Please watch this space for more details..;)

Q: Does the phrase "future of mobile entertainment" now spell in four letters ?
A: iPod

2005-09-13T01:55:00.000+09:00

Humble, Spontaneous, Impact, Promote, Improvisation

Improvisation
Insaan or Insane

Wiki

2005-06-21T00:06:00.000+09:00

I did a classsroom project which was based on the concept of wiki, the collaborative, based-on-trust website. I came across quite a few of them lately. I think they are going to be very focussed and very useful ofrspecific short-term purposes and some limited edition purposes too..
a nice wiki url : http://wiki.helpware.net/

Translation

2005-06-20T23:42:00.000+09:00

I was browsing for a tutorial in flash and came across a french page. the google automatic translation feature, in an instant crossed language barriers to give me what i wanted.. just reading the pages from a european or a japanese server makes me high these days. its the translation technology that will help us to know other worlds on our good'ol earth.

Prefix

2005-06-13T16:38:00.000+09:00

I am doing some reaseach on Unicode fonts for a project of mine. Seems its quite an interesting thing. One can view any webpage of any language with just one font installed. With the internet connecting people from different partsof the world, it should also be able to make easy for us to know about what people from other countries express and how they express it. Translators will be one of the next big things for information sharing purposes.

ps: UNI is a nice prefix. It make both UNIversal as well as UNIque, UNIverse as well as UNIt, any others ?

Wreath for Film

2005-06-05T21:39:00.000+09:00

Did you notice ? The foreign movie trailers have got this symbol

when it wins an award. I didnt see this in the earlier trailers. Must be a new global way for recognizing an award winning feature..

Gaming, seriously

2005-06-01T17:40:00.000+09:00

there is some serious gaming happening here

Blogfolio

2005-05-31T00:01:00.000+09:00

It seems that one can make a portfolio using the blog templates. upload photos, add the description... and you're done. people can even comment on your individual work ! I tried making one at home but my laziness got the better of me.

Banquet Hall to Wedding Mall

2005-05-24T14:12:00.000+09:00

I was wondering something like this HAD to come up in the land of elaborate weddings. The celebration now has a 50,000 crore market (!!) and what a way to capitalize on it ! Read some text from the ad -

.. a shopping extravaganza specialy brought to make your wedding preparation easier than ever. From wedding wear, jewlery and banquets to beauty parlours, white goods and furnishings, wedding card makers with honeymoon package organizers... 3-screen multiplex, food court, speciality restaurant and banquet hallsadd to an experience... 175000 sq ft of retail space.. launching in 5 places in India.

CellPhone Cloning

2005-05-18T10:01:00.000+09:00

A case of cellphone cloning surfaced the day before in delhi. A sting operation conducted by a tv news channel exposed this.

More on Cell Phone Cloning

Machinima

2005-05-17T13:48:00.000+09:00

Machinima is a new art form which uses game engines to make animation movies. It can be a gud prototyping tool for moviemakers, I think. Also, runtime games could be made with two players on opposite sides play. One puts enemies at new places and the other has to kill them. Something like "Assault" in UT.

Blog, Borrow, Steal

2005-05-17T10:16:00.000+09:00

Many of today's blogs lack "original content". It has become a platform to "flaunt your sources", rather than "individual thought expression". I think the so called "new media" borrows from old media, mixes with other old media and voila ! you're done. People appretiate it too.
Welcome to blogosphere !