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To my surprise, I check my comments and learn that there is atleast one person who does not know what happened at the MMRBM. Which means of course, that one of my readers reads me but not India Uncut! What’s wrong with you?
Tarun Pall left a comment pointing me to his post that revealed something shocking. It seems that some intrepid journalist bravely carried out an undercover operation and exposed the nefarious goings on at the Delhi Bloggers’ Meet. A sting operation at a Bloggers Meet? That young man will go far. He will one day get [...]
My commute (by car) takes me through a toll-gate every day. You can pay cash at the gate or buy a monthly pass. If you have a pass, the guy at the toll-gate has a look at the pass and waves you through. You just have to slow down to a crawl, you don’t have [...]
(Clarification We are not meeting at Runwal. We are meeting at the Nirmal Lifestyles Cafe Coffee Day. Please do not turn up at the wrong Coffee Day in Mulund. ) I know that many Mumbaikars are worried that as we have gone for long without a Bloggers Meet, other cities might overtake us. To prevent [...]
The Economist has a very good survey on the patent system. I haven’t yet made up my mind what I think of patents. I appreciate the fact that the product of your mind ought to be your property. I am wary of giving the government the right to determine if something is patentable. I also [...]
There have been many criticisms of Wikipedia, many of them fair, but much of them unfair. One such criticism I believe is misplaced is by Dilip in this post. (Actually I saw it when it was linked from this post – which is criticizing the use of Wikipedia to target IIPM. I will come to [...]
One response I anticipate to this post is that people will ask me “So are you saying that there should be no regulation at all?” I will answer that in length, but here is the short answer – we need laws, not regulations. The difference is in how intrusive they are, whether you make people [...]
When you are talking of reliability. I had a problem with comments a few days back. Perfectly good comments were being held up for moderation. I never noticed till Michael Higgins sent me a mail and told me about it. Luckily he had my email id. (I don’t publish my email on my site to [...]
Yes they are. This can be confirmed by casual observation. Peruse the average blog, and you will find that it is filled with unoriginal thoughts, sloppy reasoning, excessive ranting, bad grammar and poor spelling. So the average journalist compares the average newspaper article with the average blog entry, and asks, “Are these guys serious about [...]
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