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Tharoor’s Net stock

Subhash — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:53:44 +0000

The setting up of supporttharoor.org is the democratic right of either Sebastian Fuhrmann or his employers, especially if they are sitting in far-off Germany.
It also seems to be fulfilling a need of those who actually think that “an educated, world-renowned, sophisticated and pro-active minister was shown the door for not much fault.” This fact is even recognised by ET, which has been indulging surprisingly in some old-time-journalistic muckraking on the IPL issue and the Shashi Tharoor fiasco.
Two things worth noting from this is the increasing use of the Web as a political campaign tool even in India. The other is the continued dominance of elite voice in this apparent egalitarian new media.

Reaching for the stars

Subhash — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:23:32 +0000

If minister of state for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, is to be believed, India will be a fully wired country pretty soon. The minister says that the Rs.17,000 crore ($3.5 billion) in the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) will be utilised to connect 626,000 villages. He says that it would entail setting up 11,000 communications towers, and that state-run BSNL will be entrusted with this mammoth task. Sounds good so far.
But with no firm dates announced we have to wait for Pilot’s “news on this very soon.”

ESRI ArcGIS mapping API

Subhash — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:07:34 +0000

I’ve never got an opportunity to work on GIS but have felt that there are many innovative possibilities for news, even if it is just about interactive maps. Here’s another API to use:

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/07/14/new-mapping-api-via-esri-arcgis/

Tags: map, gis, mapping

RIM, BlackBerry and the government

Subhash — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:29:09 +0000

This report by Lewis Page (Indian gov: Let us into BlackBerry or we’ll shut you down) slips in a contradiction in a rather matter-of-fact. If “Western governments are widely believed to enjoy such access”, then how can the Indian government’s demand “…set a precedent”.

The report ends by saying that negotiations are on.

Tags: RIM, BlackBerry, mobile, Internet

Abby for Indiatimes

Subhash — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:07:45 +0000

I get this a lot:

“[T]he younger internet generation in India, people who expect dynamism not just in content.”
Indiatimes wins Abby Silver

A lot of people in important places assume that young Indians are aggressive, lecherous and like muck.

One hopes that the youth of India will rise to the occasion and disprove these more “knowledgeable” kinds occupying important, well-paying jobs that it’s not necessarily the whole truth.

Give em some respect folks…

Tags: internet, india, web