Blogs - MySpace or Self Promotion
Why wouldn't India progress ? Just read through this and you will know.
I have no idea why this guy had to puke about Kiruba. I mean by posting this he is not saving this world from communists or capitalists or whatever. I have read thru Kiruba's blog and I have my own opinion but that's another story.
But read thru the comments. There's pro-Kiruba, then there's anti-kiruba well you would expect that. But then suddenly there's an Anti-TamBram out of nowhere. So what's wrong u ask ? I have no idea. I am not a shrink but I just found it odd that out of nowhere we can bring in caste. I mean caste reigns supreme on our minds more than sex. What kind of nation is this ?
As for as this controversy regarding whether Kiruba is #1 or not, frankly who cares
Here's an old S.Ve.Sekhar joke.
A Tamilan, an American and a Chinese were stranded in an Island. God appeared before them and said he will grant them each a wish.
The American said in order to establish peace in the world he has to bomb some countries so he has to go to America. So God sent the American to USA.
The Chinese guy said he wanted to preach about population growth in China and so he has to go to china. So God sent the Chinese to China.
Namma Tamilan salaichavana.
When his turn came Tamilan turned towards God and said, It's so boring without the chinese and american so please bring them back.
For long I suspected this blog thing has some gang structure like how we have in schools. You know there would be a group of cool kids who form a group and if you are not part of the group you ain't cool. That's exactly what's happening. Blogs have degenerated from being a place on the web for your thoughts to being some kind of popularity contests.
As I said in my previous post, democratization of media has dangerous side effects. Especially when it is available to kids who are probably better of eating ice creams than blogging.
I have no idea why this guy had to puke about Kiruba. I mean by posting this he is not saving this world from communists or capitalists or whatever. I have read thru Kiruba's blog and I have my own opinion but that's another story.
But read thru the comments. There's pro-Kiruba, then there's anti-kiruba well you would expect that. But then suddenly there's an Anti-TamBram out of nowhere. So what's wrong u ask ? I have no idea. I am not a shrink but I just found it odd that out of nowhere we can bring in caste. I mean caste reigns supreme on our minds more than sex. What kind of nation is this ?
As for as this controversy regarding whether Kiruba is #1 or not, frankly who cares
Here's an old S.Ve.Sekhar joke.
A Tamilan, an American and a Chinese were stranded in an Island. God appeared before them and said he will grant them each a wish.
The American said in order to establish peace in the world he has to bomb some countries so he has to go to America. So God sent the American to USA.
The Chinese guy said he wanted to preach about population growth in China and so he has to go to china. So God sent the Chinese to China.
Namma Tamilan salaichavana.
When his turn came Tamilan turned towards God and said, It's so boring without the chinese and american so please bring them back.
For long I suspected this blog thing has some gang structure like how we have in schools. You know there would be a group of cool kids who form a group and if you are not part of the group you ain't cool. That's exactly what's happening. Blogs have degenerated from being a place on the web for your thoughts to being some kind of popularity contests.
As I said in my previous post, democratization of media has dangerous side effects. Especially when it is available to kids who are probably better of eating ice creams than blogging.
posted by Karthik S at
10:36 PM
4 Comments:
1) Kiruba
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Actually he inspired me to blog. It was during the Tsunami days, when I came to know of Kiruba thru THE HINDU.
That said, I also feel that by content he is not the best, but he might have a lot of readership thanks to his Media link.
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2) The Joke - Fantastic...never heard it before.!
By
Narayanan Venkitu, At
11:45 PM
NV,
Glad you enjoyed the joke. But unfortunately the depicted attitude amongst us is just so true.
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Karthik S, At
2:08 PM
Unless of course folks can begin to learn how to value things for what they're worth instead of how they compare with others! :)
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Anil P, At
8:17 AM
I liked what you had to say and I do feel that blogging is becoming something of a fad for teens out there .... but that may not necessarily be a bad thing 'coz some might actually have something to say rather than merely appear popular .... gotta give them the benefit of the doubt, no ?
p.s. do expand your profile 'coz as you can see, there is no email id one can write to, to know more ... or maybe that was a deliberate oversight , eh ? :-) cheers
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10:41 AM
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