The internet and everything it has changed, wrecked, impacted, overthrown, empowered and otherwise touched in our lives. Online communities, self-publishing, blogging, social media, apps, gaming – how these transform who we are. Also my work in this field.
Now here’s something that popped up on my browser window. I don’t know exactly how it came to be there. It may have appeared via an inadvertent click on a Facebook ad or a random link on my populous Twitter stream. I just know I’m going to get some flak…
I wrote this on April 12, 2007. It was a private post and nobody read it but me. Why then, am I sharing it here now? Because lately I’ve been accused of not being passionate about writing, by someone whose opinion matters very much. Because I find I’m constantly arguing…
How Vodafone is using social media for customer care.
Author Kiran Manral innovatively used social media to promote her new book ‘The Reluctant Detective’.
The image curation platform Pinterest has caught social media users’ interest. What does this mean in terms of copyright laws?
I interviewed Gul Panag, one of the first Indian celebrities to innovatively use social media to build their personal brands online.
Examining the phenomenon of public shaming over social media and what it means for organisations.
This is a book review for BlogAdda. The blurb of ‘7 Secrets of Shiva‘ by Devdutt Pattanaik says, “Smeared with ashDraped in animal hideHe sits atop the snow-capped mountainSkull in handWithdrawn, with dogs for companyDestroying the world with his indifferenceHe is God who the Goddess shall awakenHis name is Shiva…
Wannabes are people who do and say things for the sole purpose of fitting in or seeming cool. While I have no problem with the activities or the words themselves, the obvious fakeness of their endeavours really gets my goat. These are not hobbies.
The harbingers of the social media revolution were content platforms. I wrote a two-part essay for Social Samosa about the history of social media in India.