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The Second Client Problem
Copying the first client's work and editing the copy is how a practice fails to become a business. It works for the second client, tolerably for the fifth, and not at ...
The Empty 200Note
A rejected request that returns a bare HTTP 200 looks, in a log, exactly like a served one. That is worse than an error page, because nothing flags it for investigatio...
Who Actually Decides Where the Model Runs
The choice between a frontier API and your own hardware gets argued as an engineering question. It is rarely decided as one. The forces that push a workload off the fr...
What the Machine Says About YouDispatch
Buyers now put the question to an answer engine before they type anything into a search box. I built the tool that checks what it says, ran it on myself first, and the...
Twenty-Seven Years of Writing on the Web
This summer the eighth most-read page on this site was the error page. I got Claude to follow the broken links. They led through five platforms and twenty-seven years,...
Ten Tasks, Three WaysNote
I kept telling people that some AI work belongs on the frontier and some belongs on your own hardware. That is an assertion. So I built the instrument that turns it in...
The League and the Derivatives Regulator
In March, Major League Baseball named a prediction market its exclusive partner — and signed integrity paper with a federal derivatives regulator. The second clause is...
The Counting Problem
In 2013 India's official records put malaria deaths at 440. The Lancet put them at 205,000. The strategic problem was an instrument problem the whole way down, and tha...
The Labor War That Didn't HappenDispatch
NFL referees ratified a seven-year CBA by a 116-4 vote the spring after the league automated first-down measurement. A decade of predictions about unions versus robots...
Nobody Uses ItDispatch
The failure mode of automation was never technical. It is that six weeks later the spreadsheet is still open on someone's second monitor, and nobody wants to be the on...
Sports as AI Insurance
Within five weeks this spring, the reporter, the banker, and the fund all said the same thing: sports is the asset AI cannot synthesize. They are right — and the corol...
Sixteen Workflows, One Small ServerNote
I spent the summer automating my own operation before automating anyone else's. Sixteen workflows, a €8 box, a 0.9% failure rate — and one rule that turned out to matt...
Licensed vs. ExtractedDispatch
ESPN built the largest consented voice-cloning operation in media and nobody is angry. The AI content that draws fury is the extracted kind. The line was never AI vs. ...
The Cheapest Truck Wins
Thirteen NBA teams and seven NHL teams became local-television free agents this spring, and every bid on the table is a haircut. The post-RSN war will not be won on th...
The Catch-Up LayerDispatch
Rapid Recap, Catch Up to Live, AI vertical cropping — every AI feature that shipped in sports streaming compresses time. The recommendation layer everyone spent a deca...
The Observer Effect
Half a season into MLB's robot-umpire era, the machine's biggest effect on baseball has come from the calls it never made. Umpires shade toward the machine's zone, hit...
The Word 'AI' Is Doing a Lot of WorkDispatch
The World Cup that just ended was the most ambitious live production ever attempted — sixteen venues, 104 matches, roughly 9,000 hours, all of it processed in software...
The Machine Is Right and Nobody Believes It
The World Cup's offside machine took a goal off the board for a touch no replay can show, and FIFA says the call was correct. It probably was. That is the problem.
Writing Past the Free TierDispatch
Buttondown's free plan blocks the two features that matter most for a newsletter — automation and custom CSS. About two hundred lines of Python in the publish workflow...
Why YouTube TV Won Sunday TicketDispatch
Three seasons in, the reason YouTube TV took NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV is the one nobody wants to write down in a deck — it is the living room, not the ledger.
Zero-Click as a Business ModelDispatch
More than 80% of Google searches now end without a click. The grief is over. The structural question is which content categories survive zero-click — and which were al...
The Bounce-Click Argument
Google's defense of AI Overviews is that the clicks they replace were 'bounce clicks' — visits no one valued. The defense is technically true. It is also the same shap...
Apple's Friday Night Baseball, On PurposeDispatch
Two MLB games every Friday, with MLS folded into the same Apple TV subscription. Apple is the only buyer running sports rights as a Services-line CAC, not a P&L.
The Magicians
Italy 1990 was the first World Cup I watched. I have not missed a single game played in any World Cup since — nine tournaments, more than five hundred matches, most of...
The Living Room VoteDispatch
The FCC has collected nearly 9,000 public comments on sports streaming fragmentation. Ninety-eight percent are frustrated. A market problem just acquired a political l...
The Median Age SpreadDispatch
NBA on Prime Video runs a median viewer age of 46.9. The same league on linear is 56. The 9-year split is not a footnote — it is the asset.
The First WNBA Billion-Dollar Team
The Golden State Valkyries are worth $1 billion two seasons into existence. That number is the cleanest case study of a league entering its second media-rights cycle f...
The Untapped Economics of Minor League Broadcasting
The FAST-era distribution stack has quietly inverted the unit economics of minor league broadcasting — most of the teams we already cut were already in the black, and ...
The Unit Economics of Boredom
Streaming P&Ls optimize for minutes produced, which is cheap. The scarce variable is minutes earned — attention that is genuinely arousal-weighted. The winning service...
The NBA's Next Decade Will Not Look Like Its Last
The eleven-year, $76 billion media rights deal was priced against a world that is already moving — generationally, geographically, and through the betting layer — out ...
The Measurement Problem in Creator Economics
CPM, followers, watch-time, RPM. The canonical creator-economy metrics are inherited from businesses that no longer exist. Modern creator revenue has three components,...
A Short Taxonomy of Bundle Collapse
Since the streaming bundle wave began in 2024, the industry has tried many bundle shapes and almost all of them have collapsed into four recurring modes of failure. Th...
The Verdict Was Always ComingDispatch
A jury just told Meta and Google what parents already knew — their platforms are unsafe for children. We built Kidoodle.TV because we believed it didn't have to be thi...
The Danger of Binaries
We love sorting the world into two buckets. Left or right. Growth or profit. Success or failure. But the most important things in life — and in business and politics —...
One Book a Month: Growing Up with the Famous Five
My brother and I pooled our pocket money to buy one Enid Blyton book every month. We fought over who got to read it first. Thirty years later, I still remember the sme...
The Language That Built the World's Databases: Clipper, ASCII Art, and the Golden Age of DOS
Before the web, before Windows, before most people had ever touched a computer — there was a language called Clipper, a compiler that turned dBASE code into executable...
The Game That Was Always There: Women's Soccer, the NWSL, and Why Sunday Night Just Changed Forever
Women's soccer in America has endured two collapsed leagues, decades of underfunding, and a media ecosystem that never matched the demand. With the NWSL's record-shatt...
Building a Family Recipe BookNote
Building a 10,000-Book Library from ScratchNote
I built a curated digital library of 10,001 books spanning serious literature, science fiction, detective fiction, science, and a dozen other genres — with a REST API,...
Zeitgeist — Which Sports Teams Are People Actually Paying Attention To?Note
I built a dashboard that tracks digital attention across all 92 NBA, MLB, and NHL teams using seven data sources — from Wikipedia and ESPN to ticket demand and betting...
Oil vs Stock: Seeing the Relationship Between Oil and EquitiesNote
I built a dashboard that overlays crude oil prices with any stock ticker — because sometimes the best way to understand a relationship is to just look at it.
Leapfrogging vs. Stepwise Growth: Two Paradigms of Progress
From India's telecom revolution to Kenya's mobile money miracle, the most transformative progress often comes not from climbing the ladder rung by rung — but from skip...
What Isn’t Changing: The Enduring Power of Live Sports in an Age of Acceleration
In an era of compounding disruption from AI and shifting demographics, live sports endure as a uniquely resilient cultural and economic force.
The Many X Opportunity in Sports Streaming
Free sports streaming is delivering many times the audience of traditional media — here is what the data shows and why it matters.
What solving 3650 New York Times crosswords puzzles has taught me
Ten years and 3650 puzzles later — lessons in patience, pattern recognition, and persistence from a daily NYT crossword habit.
An Ode to the Remote Control
The demise of the RSN model is forcing sports franchises to rethink how they reach fans — and the remote control holds the key.
Where in the World is Naren – Building An Interactive Travel MapNote
Building an interactive travel map with Leaflet.js to showcase every place I have visited or lived in around the world.
Sports — The First Frontier
From watching the 1990 World Cup final on a tiny black and white TV to understanding why live sports remain the most powerful form of media.
The Architecture of Attention: Why the Only Finite Asset Is the One We Understand Least
Human attention is the only truly finite asset in media. Three cognitive models from the 1950s through the 1970s explain more about how we watch, scroll, and subscribe...
Rebuilding a personal siteNote
After twenty-five years and multiple false starts, finally rebuilding a personal site the right way with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Learnings from launching KBITS Live — the new streaming home for the world’s best Cisco networking trainerNote
How we helped a top Cisco networking trainer break free from aggregation platforms and launch his own streaming service.
Since Hindsight is 2020
Reflecting on twenty years of career transitions — from web design to journalism, digital marketing to building a streaming platform.
Essential Reading for FoundersDispatch
A curated, living list of the most influential books for startup founders, with video talks where available.
The Great Tragedy of the 2016 US ElectionsDispatch
Rigging claims are cheap. What they cost is the voter's belief that the vote counts.
Machine Learning 101Note
A running diary of getting Anaconda and Conda working, one failed install at a time.
PyFactStream: Analysing newsNote
A weekend experiment piping scraped news through a text-processing engine.
The Perfect Mac Dev SetupNote
A nine-step terminal recipe for getting a Mac ready to write code.
Predicting The FutureNote
SXSW 2016 notes from Kevin Kelly on AI and work, VR as the most social medium, and co-veillance.
Programming a new life languageNote
SXSW 2016 notes on Zymergen's Codon — a programming language for designing microbes.
Planning for MomentsNote
Notes from a Kiip session on what connected devices do to marketing: segment by intent in the moment, not by age.
The World Without GlassesDispatch
A poem about what the city looks like when you take your glasses off.
Essential Free Software For The MacNote
A starter set of free Mac software, written for a friend who had just bought one.
Choices; PlacesDispatch
A poem about what a place is, and what it costs to keep choosing one.
Fly.Dispatch
A short poem about the bonds you are born into and the choice to leave them.
Review: Rajdeep Sardesai’s Book On The ElectionsDispatch
An election that changed India – a cliche trotted out after every general election is doing the rounds again. It is perhaps more accurate to say that a profound…
Five Reasons Why Marketers Ignore Social Media At Their Own PerilDispatch
This was written for Nov 3, 2014 Social Media isn’t just another channel. It’s a marker of human evolution. The impact of technology on us as a species is best seen…
Ten Social, Digital, Mobile CommandmentsDispatch
Number One: The CEO needs to be on Twitter. The CMO needs to be on Twitter. And they have to tweet everyday. Number Two: Stop thinking everybody has to love you.…
New Delhi — Jaipur: The Scenic RouteDispatch
This is the route I plan to take from Delhi to Jaipur. It’s about 40 kilometers longer, but hopefully with far less traffic.
Note to Self: Two Open Source data projects I have to play withNote
Data is wealth. And I don’t like the idea of having all my data making other people wealthy. In my continuing quest (, ) to track alternates to popular, commercial,…
Bill Watterson! Drew Three New Comic Strips!Dispatch
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis managed to get the reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson to collaborate with him on three strips. And here…
WIP: The Perfect Web Dev MacNote
Will keep updating this article – Two things happened recently — I upgraded to Mac OSX on my Macbook Pro and got a new Mac Air at work. The second is important…
A HiatusDispatch
Much has happened since I last wrote a post — a child, a new home, an election … i could go on. I let the blog die. After the anger and the activism, I needed a…
Why I Am Angry, Why I Am ProtestingDispatch
I am angry because a woman got raped in a bus in the national capital. I am angry because I am not a member of the privileged classes. I am angry because I don’t…
Why We Need To ProtestDispatch
Kavita Krishnan’s fiery speech that encapsulates the idiocy of the government’s response to the DelhiGangRape As usual, the police are suggesting that the safety of…
#DelhiGangRape — A List of DemandsDispatch
The following demands were first tweeted by — I have edited them for grammar and clarity and reworked the order in which the demands have been listed.
Measuring social media, or, how social is your mediaDispatch
Social media is not advertising. Digital marketing is easy to measure. Marketers have figured out how to measure advertising across mediums — TV, print etc. In some…
Steve JobsDispatch
1955 – 2011 The title of this blog comes from Steve Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford.
Sickest John Denver Remix Ever.Dispatch
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A Quick Take On Google+Dispatch
Today, Google announced a new social network called Google+. While it’s invite only at the moment, I thought I would quickly highlight two features, both of which…
What comes after Facebook
“What comes after Facebook?” This is a question that’s being asked very frequently nowadays — and by people who, a few years ago, were struggling with email. “Hah,”…
Data Visualization: See what I’m all aboutNote
I decided to go over to Wordle and run the blog and my del.icio.us account data through it’s engine to visualize what I’m all about. Here are the results: The Blog:…
Rant: When Social Media and Crowdsourcing gets hijacked by GroupthinkDispatch
I read a today that got me hopping mad. Written by Adel Zakout, it’s basically about how Apple’s new campus needed to be crowdsourced. Oh, and incidentally, Mr…
Three lessons to be learnt from Vodafone’s Social Media FailDispatch
Today, Vodafone India got a story on the front page of the Economic Times — India’s largest financial daily, for perhaps, the country’s biggest social media fail.…
Buying A New Phone: iOS vs Android vs WP7 Part 2Dispatch
There have been a wide variety of opinions expressed to me since I wrote the first part — catch up on the story till now here: Most revolve around people…
A New Social Network That Likes To SpyDispatch
Yesterday, a friend told me about AllMediaPeople, A Social Network Just For Media Professionals (their emphasis, not mine). So, I moseyed over to take a look at it…
The Game of ThronesDispatch
Imagine a world that isn’t black and white. Wait, that’s the world we live in … So, let me rephrase that: imagine a fantasy novel set in a world that isn’t black…
Buying A New Phone: iOS vs Android vs WP7Dispatch
I need a new phone. My Nokia E71 has served me faithfully for the last two+ years. I bought the E71 after () recommended it to me — mostly by waving his own E71…
Using Github with Webfaction (or AWS, or pretty much any other server)Note
At we’ve been building some really cool apps over the last few months. Working with multiple apps means that we need to keep track of what we’re up to, what changes…
Learning Ruby on Rails 3Note
Installing RoR3 on a Mac — I’ve found till now. Be warned: you will need to download and install the latest version of XCode. Use the Mac App Store, it’s easier…
Louis Vuitton Versus The InternetDispatch
Luxury super brand Louis Vuitton recently won a court case against Danish artist Nadia Plesner. And certain, sometimes dangerous, parts of the Internet exploded.…
The Future of User Interfaces and InteractionDispatch
Around a week ago, we were hanging around in the office talking about what would come next. My take on UI, especially on mobile devices, has stayed the same for a…
A new media business model for old mediaDispatch
Apple has changed the world again today. Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠,…
Car Reviews are going to changeDispatch
Quick Note to Self: Reading a review for a car today morning I realised that my reasons for buying a car (any car) and the reviewer’s were completely different. In…
Video: Apple engineer builds the Antikythera Mechanism — an ancient computer — out of LegoDispatch
The Antikythera Mechanism, is, allegedly, (). The Greeks built it around 100 B.C. Andrew Carol, one of Apple’s software engineers, decided to re-create this fine…
Barkhagate: there is a reason editors do not go out and reportDispatch
The newsroom is a strange place filled with large egos, competing motives, and everybody suffers from the illusion that they are RIGHT. The only reason that a…
On Hospitals, Design and ServiceDispatch
I’ve spent the last week or so living at looking after my grandmother. When I was around eight, we moved to Jaipur from Calcutta and came to live with my grandma.…
Hello world!Dispatch
The Blog Is Dead. Long Live The Blog.
jQuery Autocomplete with CodeIgniter
The project I'm working on was crying out for autofill boxes etc all over the place. jQuery has a very nifty autocomplete plugin, but that works by building urls…
Holographic Thingummyjig Video, Try This At HomeDispatch
See more funny videos and Technology Videos at Today’s Big Thing. … me and have been having a great time with it since tweet pointed us to it.
Wow. Just, wow.Dispatch
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Choices, choices, choices.Dispatch
I’ve been trying to explain away my absence from the interscape by citing work (lots of work, even). But that’s only half the story. Most of the work has involved…
Kotak Mahindra’s “Fantastic” Management TechniqueDispatch
I’m being very sarcastic with that headline. So, here’s how Kotak “inspires” staff to achieve targets: they give out medals in a public ceremony to various people…
Take The PC World Broadband SurveyDispatch
I have pay for a 1 Mbps unlimited broadband connection at home. PC World India has decided to find out if broadband in India is all that it's made out to be .. or…
Great Music Playlist, Quarter 4, 2008-09Dispatch
In no particular order, the music I’m listening to this quarter (why should fiscal barbequers be the only people to throw around quarters like they’re worth…
Coffee. It Always Starts Normally.Dispatch
Uploaded by via . A song of the French band Oldelaf and Mr Dm from their LP L’album de la maturité. The movie clip has been directed by Stephanie Marguerite and…
The Sounds Of JupiterDispatch
It seems Nasa’s Voyager mission recorded electromagnetic radiation from Jupiter, and some of it is audible. So, you can hear what Jupiter sounds like. Super cool.…
Barack Obama Is Tired Of Your F***ing S***!Dispatch
has that’s got to be making every Republican campaign official kick him/herself in the butt … It seems the audiobook of Dreams From My Father has the author cussing…
Growing Up In The Eighties Sure Was FunDispatch
Vir vs Mint
After a couple of strange, and unexpected, text messages today, I went over to to find that and, more specifically, two articles on dealing with an issue that has…
The Obama Inauguration Viewing Guide
It’s taken a long time to get here, but finally, Obama will swear in as the 44th president of the United States of America today. I live in India, and have been…
Monika Halan shows what’s wrong with the Indian mediaDispatch
If you haven’t already, read Outlook Business’ editor . She makes three points: The OLM Awards are being used to fulfil the advertising goals of the Group. In fact,…
Everybody’s A Crook: Satyam, Wipro, Insurance Cos … who’s next?Dispatch
Let me get this straight, less than a week after Satyam implodes, the World Bank releases a list of companies that are barred from doing business with the Bank, and…
BREAKING: Metro Now to cut staffDispatch
Just heard that Metro Now, the joint venture between the Times Group and the Hindustan Times, is looking to cut costs by axing jobs. There’s a chance as many as…
NewsX — sold … really?Dispatch
Right, I’ve stayed away from talking about this all day long. Mostly because I’ve been trying to figure this whole thing out, using the little information that’s…
Why Satyam’s going to screw India for a long, long time …
So, one of India’s biggest technology companies has just imploded. Call me a pessimist, but the impact on Indian technologies companies is going to be terrible. And…
The Satyam Shocker explainedDispatch
Now that I’ve gotten over the stomach upset that Raju and Satyam managed to give me yesterday, I’ve digested the news a little better. And guess what, I’m feeling…
The letter Raju wrote
To the Board of Directors Satyam Computer Services Ltd, From B. Ramalinga Raju Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Ltd. January 7, 2009 Dear Board Members, It is…
Will it be a Friday release in NewsX ?Dispatch
Apologies for the excruciatingly bad pun in the headline, it won over popular choices like Freaky Friday at NewsX and First Day First Show at NewsX. I’m sure there…
The NewsX Death WatchDispatch
Over the last week or so, I’ve been getting increasingly desparate phonecalls from all sorts of people. Some from people who still work at the beleagured channel.…
Ghajini, the good, the bad and the uglyDispatch
I went and saw the late late show of Ghajini, friday night. Aside: It wasn’t supposed to be the late late show, just the late show, but Big Cinemas seems to run on…
In the new officeDispatch
After six months of working from home, I’ve moved into a new office in the Okhla industrial area. Come and visit
NewsX - This is all gonna end in tears… | Samreth SinghDispatch
What went wrong so soon? I had such high hopes for NewsX. A network started by Peter Mukerjea for chrissakes! He headed STAR TV! The news channel would be headed by…
Deal Or No DealDispatch
Today has been an incredibly interesting day. For me, as well as for INX. For one, I’ve moved into a new office after working from home for the past six months.…
The Sale of NewsXDispatch
When I joined INX News Pvt Ltd in March 2007, it was a completely different channel from the one that may have got sold, from what I’m hearing from the inside. Let…
The Political Edge we gave our clients, a 100% resultDispatch
One of the businesses I’m involved in is an analytics firm. We call the political analytics wing Political Edge. In the months leading up to elections in Rajasthan,…
Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That SingDispatch
I’ve always believed in the power of butter and ghee (clarified butter). These two ingredients make any dish so much better, and in the case of more than one dish,…
I’m hiringDispatch
I’m looking for someone with equal measures of life experience, enthusiasm, and enterprise LAMP development skills. 1. Life Experience: I don’t care about how old…
Surviving layoff season in the mediaDispatch
“It’s a five year cycle,” say media old timers who’ve been around since the booming nineties of the last century. “Over a five year period, you see salaries go up,…
Five Reasons to StartupDispatch
Ladies and Gents, Good Morning! It’s the 13th of December, 2008 — the sun’s out, and its turning out to be a beautiful winter morning. It just makes you feel…
Brand new Wordpress, deserves a brand new themeDispatch
I’ve spent the day in bed today, not feeling well at all. And so I found the time to upgrade this blog to Wordpress 2.7 release candidate 2. I’ve been reading the…
INX News Pvt Ltd deal announcement soonDispatch
RIght. I still don’t know who the buyer is. But here’s what I’ve gathered: 1. An announcement should be made in the next few days (most probably Saturday, when…
VCCircle: Temasek, India Equity Partners To Invest Rs 163 Cr In Lokmat GroupDispatch
Temasek and India Equity Partners (IEP) will jointly invest Rs 163 crore ($32 million) in regional media house Lokmat Group, VCCircle has learned. Temasek will pick…
The NewsX 27: list forwarded to possible new investors?Dispatch
NewsX I got a phonecall late Monday night about how independent auditors had forwarded a list of 27 people in key positions to people interested in buying out a…
Top Five Music Blogs that help me find Great New MusicDispatch
Here’s are my top five music blogs to find great, new music — and yes, you can listen to the music they’re talking about at all these places. 1. : I’ve found some…
The Mumbai Attacks, Barkha, NDTV and the media in generalDispatch
Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of people are cackling and rubbing their hands in glee over these Facebook groups that are lobbying to remove Barkha Dutt…
@labnol helping me be an internet star, years after I made him a tv starDispatch
I was checking my blog stats today morning and noticed that a lot of traffic over the last few days has been coming from . Clicking on the link I found that Amit’s…
Pakistan’s General - the man the world needs to focus onDispatch
General Kayani The Indian government will make its case to the visiting US Secretary of State today. It is expected that the government will present evidence…
Enough with the candles, its time to get angryDispatch
Are you angry? If you’re like me, you are. So what are you doing about it? Lighting candles? Going out on peace marches? What the fuck for! Let me be very clear:…
Monumental cockup in Delhi paperDispatch
From Presstalk: When I set off on Thursday morning for a break through Rajasthan little did I know that things would get so bad in Mumbai. Evidently, the Hindustan…
Making money off the Mumbai attack … utter rubbish!Dispatch
I just got an email, originally written by someone who likes to call him(her?)self the “unknown Indian”. It’s floating around the interwebs asking people to boycott…
Mumbai Attack Impact UpdateDispatch
It’s not a good time to be in Mumbai. You just need to scratch the surface to reach the deep sense of unease amongst Mumbaikars today. And it’s a feeling that…
Understanding who’s behind the Mumbai attacksDispatch
Here’s what we know for certain: 1. There were ten simultaneous attacks. 2. The attackers were well armed, with large amounts of ammo and grenades. 3. A previously…
Post Mumbai Attack Action Plan
I just got this email — I think it’s worth sharing, especially since I agree with it in toto: Hi, My name is Vijay Parthasarathy, and I am a first year PhD student…
Mumbai Blast newsfeedsDispatch
LIVE FEEDS - - breaking news at a frightening pace - - - - - - Up at 1:39 AM - perhaps the most comprehensive source of news - - - I’m watching…
Obama vs McCain, the differenceDispatch
Jonathan Curley’s a banker who’s voted Republican in the past, but went out canvassing for Obama because his wife told him to. His does a good job of summing up…
Samsung LCD TV travailsDispatch
My Samsung LCD TV So, I bought myself a Samsung LCD TV last year around this time from Jumbo Electronics in Noida. Unfortunately, despite all our tender, loving,…
American Fundamentalist Right No Different Than TalibanDispatch
It’s hard to believe how or why, but there really exists a subculture in America that is militaristic, hateful, vengeful, irrational and ambitious. These extremists…
My talk at Barcamp DelhiDispatch
Slides from a talk at Barcamp Delhi: Starting Up And Not Screwing Up.
See you at BarcampDispatch
I’m at , Saturday and Sunday. See you there. Will put up my presentation, notes and posts from there. - BROWSE / IN TIMELINE - « - » - BROWSE / IN work SPEAK / ADD…
Michael Jackson’s hometown just made Indiana a swing stateDispatch
On Avirook’s Blog: The last time Indiana voted for a democratic president was in 1964. But over the last week it just became a ‘battleground’ state. Losing ground…
Still starting up :)Dispatch
The last few weeks have been super interesting. I’ve been busy meeting all sorts of people talking about what we’re doing with . The orders have also started to…
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn … Midnight Sun!Dispatch
Stephenie Meyer blows J K Rowling out of the water. Before all loyal Potter fans get their panties in a twist, let me just say I have read, watched and loved the…
The new James Bond rocks …
I just finished reading the new novel, , by Sebastian Faulks (writing as Ian Fleming). I have to say I liked the book. It’s a pageturner par excellence, and for…
iTunes Store open for India, and other parts of the worldDispatch
I just signed up at — traditionally walled off for Indians who didn’t have an American credit card. change of heart seems to be driven by the impending and other…
Dot dot dot …Dispatch
I’m jumping the fence. I’m quitting journalism to take up ‘connecting the dots’ full time. I have resigned my job at — a business newspaper published out of New…
The fastest method to calculate piDispatch
Ramanujan came up with a formula that's the basis of the fastest algorithms to calculate the value of pi.
$1 For Each NEW FireFox User!Dispatch
Get this tool for switching people from IE to Firefox. For each person you switch, Google gives you $1, Microsoft loses marketshare, and an angel gets its wings.' |
The worst word in the languageDispatch
This is why Jeremy Clarkson rocks.
~*~ Secret Diaries ~*~Dispatch
Have you ever wondered about what was going through the minds of Aragorn and Legolas .. wonder no more .. their secret diaries have been found and can be read
True FactsDispatch
20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth. The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market. A party boat filled with 60…
Squashed PhilosophersDispatch
Now here's something interesting...
Fact and fictionDispatch
Explorer finds sub that may have inspired Verne's Nautilus
Coming in out of the cold: Cold fusion, for real | csmonitor.comDispatch
Finally ...
The death of broadcast tvDispatch
You read it here first: the day tv died .. ok .. so technically, a lot of people have read it already -- and it's got slashdotted .. but that doesn't take away from…
3quarksdaily: Monday Musing: Stevinus, Galileo, and Thought ExperimentsDispatch
Now this was an excellent way to start a Monday.
StuckDispatch
I was supposed to fly out of Srinagar today. A headwind of 34 knots plus later, all flights were cancelled. I am back in the same hotel I left earlier in the…
AliveDispatch
It's been crazy since yesterday ... I had almost reached the Line of Control -- the de-facto border beween India and Pakistan -- when we were asked to turn back at…
Momentous timesDispatch
Will this be the most newsy month in 2005? As I write this Tony Blair is meeting the Queen of England to ask her to dissolve parliament. The BBC journalist…
BallsDispatch
The Srinagar polo grounds are right opposite my hotel. After meeting some people I was walking back with a friend and we were passing the polo ground when we saw a…
All the way from SrinagarDispatch
Hameed from Srinagar just called up the folks on DDs Fourth Umpire and told them to rename the programme. His suggestion: Indian Umpire. As far as he's concerned,…
SolutionsDispatch
Everybody seems to have a solution to the 'Kashmir Problem.' There is wide disparity as to how to go about achieving peace here, but there is a key phrase that…
The pope is deadDispatch
The pope has popped off ... with apologies to any catholic readers who may land up here. Anyway, I am off to all the churches I can find in Srinagar ... lets see if…
VetsDispatch
Yusuf Jameel and Altaf Hussain are veteran journalists in Srinagar. Jameel reported for the BBC from the beginning of militancy here. Hussain is working for the BBC…
Talking heads early in the morningDispatch
Something called the Mass Communication Professionals Guild has organised a seminar on Media in Kashmir: Challenges and the Future. It’s a Saturday morning and…
Sex in SrinagarDispatch
I hooked up with this bunch of journalism students -- both men and women -- and decided to talk dirty with them. Sex, not very surprisingly, is taboo around here.…
Two sides ...Dispatch
News begins to lose its easy urban character out here pretty quickly. There is no straight story. The balanced story ceases to exist. Fact is shrouded beneath…
Srinagar notesDispatch
In Delhi, people are switching on air conditioning. In Srinagar, I need a sweater all the time. But what a beautiful place this is ... no wonder everybody wants it.
Nightlife in KashmirDispatch
I went for a walk today evening. The markets in Srinagar are all closed. Delhi seems further away than ever before. Right next door to Delhi, Haryana was the first…
water water everywhereDispatch
I am writing this sitting in the capital of a desert state. In one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Asia, the death toll is ticking over like a Delhi…
Sunday sentimentsDispatch
One of the most highly paid columnists in this country calls his column Sunday Sentiments. It's a nice title. It doesn't mean too much ... it lets the author get…
The end of the yearDispatch
Having just finished the year-ender issue of the newspaper I work for, I have to admit this year hasn't been too bad. For one, I think I have finally got used to…
Tolerance vs ReligionDispatch
Just found this at kuro5hin ... The vague feeling I've always had that religion and tolerance don't go hand-in-hand just got translated into a statistic. When Marx…
InterruptedDispatch
The whole hiatus post turned out to be a bit of an embarrasment really. After my fairly pompous declaration -- ala Schwarzenegger -- that I was back, I fizzled out…
hiatusDispatch
A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break: “We are likely to be disconcerted by... hiatuses of thought” (Edmund Wilson). --- It's a nice word.…
Book Meme -- How well read are you?Dispatch
A really long list of books I found --- bold, the ones i have read; italics, the ones i am reading. copy, paste and apply the same rules ... when you finish, add…
The end of an eraDispatch
Early 1999, hunched over a computer in an office in Vasant Kunj, I was trying to figure out how to design a website. I chanced upon a website . It was a site run by…
Nicholas Xenos - Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of the War on TerrorDispatch
This is very interesting ...
style.org | SpaceDispatch
Nationalities of enemy combatants detained at Guantánamo Bay, the âlegal equivalent of outer space.â
Hell, An email from a friendDispatch
THERMODYNAMICS OF HELL The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam. The answer by one student was so 'profound'…
The New Yorker: Democracy is not a givenDispatch
âDemocracy is dangerous anywhere,â he said. âWe talk sometimes as if democracy were the natural human condition, as if any deviation from it is a crime to be…
Telegraph | Arts | How the bee got his kneesDispatch
Curry favour It's an odd phrase. Why should 'curry' have anything to do with winning the favour of somebody or ingratiating oneself with him? It becomes even…
GeniusDispatch
Drip drip, drip drip ... It seems to me that a lot of people nowadays equate life with a leaky faucet. Time, they believe, is running out. And no matter how hard…
Genocide againDispatch
The 'Janjaweed' government-backed Arab militia continues its campaign of mass murder and rape against black African tribes in Darfur. The government of Sudan not…
Opinion Journal: The real story of FallujahDispatch
Robert D Kaplan in The Wall Street Journal writes ...The meticulous planning process undertaken by the Marines at the tactical level for assaulting Fallujah was not…
Village Voice : Who killed Nick BergDispatch
After the death of poor Nick Berg, the conspiracy theories were legion, appearing first on websites dedicated to such alternate histories, then making their way to…
Village voice : Bush's grandpa was a NaziDispatch
the late Connecticut senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president, along with his law partner W. Averill Harriman, a former governor of New York,…
WorldChanging: Abrupt Climate Change, the Pentagon, and The Day After TomorrowDispatch
Doug Randall wrote (along his boss at Global Business Network, Peter Schwartz) what has come to be known as 'the Pentagon study' on abrupt climate change. Their…
spiked-politics - A brief history of bollocksDispatch
It was originally going to be subtitled 'A Brief History of Bollocks' but the publishers balked', says Francis Wheen .... .... Wheen reckons we're living through a…
Slate : The Economics of Faking OrgasmDispatch
you can't analyze the Fifth Amendment without considering the fact that defendants sometimes lie, and juries sometimes try to figure out when they're lying. That's…
The New York Times : True to Form, Phish Disbands on Its Own Maverick TermsDispatch
Phish is really breaking up. On Tuesday the group announced on its Web site, www.phish.com, that it was disbanding after a final tour this summer. The decision was…
Tom Clancy vs George BushDispatch
Clancy is perhaps the least likely writer imaginable to lend his name to a project bashing the Bush administration. Since the beginning of his literary career in…
Poynter Online - When the Killer Came BackDispatch
A serial killer terrorizes a city, hiding in people's houses, cutting their phone lines, and strangling them when they get home. In letters to the local media and…
Outsourcing abuseDispatch
On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, was flying home to Montreal from a family trip to Tunisia. During a stopover at New York's JFK…
Identity TheftDispatch
No one can deny that the children of Holocaust survivors share common histories and traits, but in this highly generalizable way they resemble the children of any…
The Big Lab Experiment - Was our universe created by design? By Jim HoltDispatch
You might take this all as a joke,' he said, 'but perhaps it is not entirely absurd. It may be the explanation for why the world we live in is so weird. On the…
Torment!Dispatch
Israel Pickholtz (isai8v10ATactcom.co.il) sent this email to a word a day email .. My favorite word for relations is the Hebrew for what the two concurrent wives of…
Trojan Wars: On the Big and Little ScreenDispatch
Troy is a violent film. Homer's great poem the Iliad is cut and hacked mercilessly in it, while the evidence of the archaeological record is helpless before its…
Why management doesn't workDispatch
No form of education is more commercialised than management education. But are business schools teaching the right things?'
Superman vs Batman by Jim LeeDispatch
Superman vs Batman by Jim Lee
Meandering through hinduism and scienceDispatch
We are taught from a very early age to believe that everything is made up of something. Then we learn that it is possible to discover the basic building blocks.…
Corruption redefinedDispatch
There are a couple of points I wanted to raise. Our perception of corruption is coloured by mass media --- the only corruption cases that recieve coverage involve…
Three days and 800 pointsDispatch
The Congress is back and being torn to pieces by the sensex on one side that wants liberal economic policies and left wing parties that want the farmer to rule.…
Women ...Dispatch
makes interesting readin. It may be interesting to check on how the world has changed since the time the article talks about .. and has it changed for the better or…
Saddled with stone age brainsDispatch
Talking about thinking, our Stone Age brains may simply be unable to cope with the pace of modern life, says Roger Highfield in The Telegraph. Read the article
The first postDispatch
Thought may be the most underrated human activity. True, independent thought suffers from hurdles that I have only begun to understand and become aware of. But when…
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