Siby Kuriakose

Saw this in TOI on 29th December 2006. Blog Blah Himani Dalmia All this hype about Web 2.0, the new generation of Internet services, where dotcom is so last season and Wiki is not just a funny word, seems to overlook the fact that blogging and online collaboration are just ways to give mindless drivel a free hand. First, let's take blogs themselves. Who wants to read pages of claptrap by some Johnny-got-empowered with detailed expositions on subjects like his favourite fruit or things he feels guilty about? Even the few sensible bloggers out there receive such dippy responses that it's a wonder they find the strength to go on writing. The blogosphere is like an overcrowded city where people streak down the street naked and complete strangers thrust pamphlets in your face. It thrives on reverse voyeurism, the instinct that makes you secretly hope someone will peep through the window while you shower. Here, one doesn't need to convince a TV producer or editor that what you ha

the first post. you feel it should be something historical. a good sign, omen maybe. well, i never thought i would be interested in blogging. it amused me that so many people wanted the world to know what they thought. but is it really that? or is it more of a journal? if you want other people to read your blog then its a like coversation that you wanted to have but never got the oppportunity, and if you don't then its like a diary tha can be edited from anywhere and is till available for public viewing. technorati is tracking 60 million blogs!! that number boggles the mind. so, the day before i turn 27 i've decided to give up smoking. taking its place will be blogging. actually i dont know how long either of these good intentions will last, but i'm sure as hell gonna miss the smoking!