someone was doing a search on google for Hero Honda Karizma, and that brought him/her to me. Apparntly someone else was looking for the Karizma Ad agency... (which is JWT)...
other keywords that bring ppl here... marlinspike and av500
Monday, November 29, 2004
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
GuestBook, turns google seeder
I popped ini to one of of the learning sites I'd done many many years, which I've abandoned since. The GuestBook has become a spam magnet for people promoting their own sites, porn et al. Obviously and attempt to manipulate google rankings...
Friday, November 19, 2004
The Search for Love: A Marketer's Perspective
This is a good topic. Krishna Menon is doigna series of articles titled as The Search for Love: A Marketer's Perspective (Part 1)
He rambles a bit though. Let see how this series evolves...
He rambles a bit though. Let see how this series evolves...
Friday, November 12, 2004
This is supposed to be fun???
This was my first Diwali in Delhi outside the canttonment area. Normally I head back home to Dehradun, this time I didn't think it worth my while to actually brave the Diwali rush in the trains to head to Dehradun and instead stay in Delhi and visit some friends.
Just as the evening started... I stepped out and immediately retreated into my house in horror at the assault on the senses this celebration is.
Why? My Eyes are burning and my ears are itching and I have a sore throat from the smoke in the air. If I didn't know better, from the sound track I'd have thought that it is a war zone.
Till yesterday afternoon I used to think that all the anti-cracker activists were nuts... Today as Diwali is being celebrated(?) I'm a convert. Ban crackers. and ban them pronto.
I used the video mode in my digital camera to capture some video. The camera can capture video at full DVCam resolution 640x480 at 30fps, but it looks as if it has been captured from a low quality phone cam. All the fuzziness is from the smoke in the air. And the sound track could easily be mistaken to be that from the war news clips. In fact, I captured some 12 mins worth (with low res video). One could strip out the sound and use it as backing for all the war clips that our news channels seem to flick from firang channels.
Once I find some hosting space. I'll plonk the video file online...
On second thoughts, you couldn't pass it of as war sounds. Wars are quieter...
Shame on us for even calling this a celebration. Disgusting. Never ever will I spend Diwali in Delhi again.
Just as the evening started... I stepped out and immediately retreated into my house in horror at the assault on the senses this celebration is.
Why? My Eyes are burning and my ears are itching and I have a sore throat from the smoke in the air. If I didn't know better, from the sound track I'd have thought that it is a war zone.
Till yesterday afternoon I used to think that all the anti-cracker activists were nuts... Today as Diwali is being celebrated(?) I'm a convert. Ban crackers. and ban them pronto.
I used the video mode in my digital camera to capture some video. The camera can capture video at full DVCam resolution 640x480 at 30fps, but it looks as if it has been captured from a low quality phone cam. All the fuzziness is from the smoke in the air. And the sound track could easily be mistaken to be that from the war news clips. In fact, I captured some 12 mins worth (with low res video). One could strip out the sound and use it as backing for all the war clips that our news channels seem to flick from firang channels.
Once I find some hosting space. I'll plonk the video file online...
On second thoughts, you couldn't pass it of as war sounds. Wars are quieter...
Shame on us for even calling this a celebration. Disgusting. Never ever will I spend Diwali in Delhi again.
Friday, November 05, 2004
Agencies warned to get serious about print
News Corp has warned ad agencies to get serious about increasing print share of the advertising pie or risk losing comissions to the tune of $150 million dollars (between the News Corp and the Fairfax group of newspapers) The Australian Story and a related story from Sydney Morning Herald
Dog charged with chasing cat
Of all the absurdities in this world. this has to be the weirdest. In a world where it is accepted that Dogs chase cats. A Dog is charged with chasing a cat. What aloony worl dwe live in...
free iPods
Wired recently ran a story on free iPods being given away. i.e. one of the ads iPod ads actually works. Too bad I'm not eligible... tch tch...
WAN Conference Presentation Summaries
The Summaries of Presentations of the Wan conference: Beyond the Printed Word
Thursday, November 04, 2004
It's the End of Classifieds as We Know Them
Interesting Viewpoint...
It's the End of Classifieds as We Know Them
Must check out, how our plan for the future compares with this...
It's the End of Classifieds as We Know Them
Must check out, how our plan for the future compares with this...
Thoughts on US Circulation Declines
Digital Deliverance has More Thoughts on U.S. Circulation Declines
I left the this comment on the post:
The newsapper in the current form may be a losing proposition as a trend, but while this is true right now in more developed markets like America, in countries like India where TV News is in it's (relative) infancy and the internet is restricted to the urban elite, Newspapers continue to be a powerful medium at least in the near term.
Of course, it goes without saying that we need to reinvent the concept of newspapers. "Minority Report" style newspapers will be something really cool. The technology for them will be available in not more than 5 years.
But for them to happen, newspaper publishers need to move on from the ink on paper mentality to news, especially when technology allows us to break news real time, sometimes even faster than TV.
Right now online divisions are hostage to the print news teams. So we have a long time to go.
Done rightly, this is the next chance for newspaper publishers to take on the dominance of TV in a new medium, especially when TV itself is coming under attack due to the emergence of new devices like TiVo.
I left the this comment on the post:
The newsapper in the current form may be a losing proposition as a trend, but while this is true right now in more developed markets like America, in countries like India where TV News is in it's (relative) infancy and the internet is restricted to the urban elite, Newspapers continue to be a powerful medium at least in the near term.
Of course, it goes without saying that we need to reinvent the concept of newspapers. "Minority Report" style newspapers will be something really cool. The technology for them will be available in not more than 5 years.
But for them to happen, newspaper publishers need to move on from the ink on paper mentality to news, especially when technology allows us to break news real time, sometimes even faster than TV.
Right now online divisions are hostage to the print news teams. So we have a long time to go.
Done rightly, this is the next chance for newspaper publishers to take on the dominance of TV in a new medium, especially when TV itself is coming under attack due to the emergence of new devices like TiVo.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die"
Wish the story was as cool cool as the title... Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die"
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