Sep 13 2008
So what do you have to do to find happiness? - Sunday Times Online Asks. Reporting on the new science of feeling good, the article by Dorothy Wade points out that “Misery makes people self-obsessed and inactive.” What makes us...
Sep 10 2008
Reacting to the Judith Miller episode, in his PressThink weblog, Jay Rosen says that the Washington Post is the great national newspaper in the United States now. “The Times is number two, with the Wall Street Journal close behind.” Link...
Sep 10 2008
In this unprecedented season of hurricanes, volcano eruptions, blackouts, flash floods, and what not, The Red Cross Society has come out with a series of useful publications which help you to be amply prepared for emergencies. From their...
Sep 9 2008
The recent issue of New York magazine carries a profile of Jason Calacanis, who recently sold his Weblogsinc network of around 85 blogs to AOL. People want to know: what would a champion of new media be like if one had all the trappings of old media,...
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Sep 8 2008
One ’soul’ feature after another, that was not my idea of a blog feeding from the Internet. One is tempted to ask this: Did God existed for the Tsunami victims? The London Bombings? The Bali Bombings?....one can go on and on. Or,to put the...
Sep 8 2008
The Ignoble Awards Ceremony was held on October 6. In Medicine, the award was given to the Inventor of Artificial Replacement Testicles For Dogs, The Literature Award went to, “The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using...
Sep 8 2008
The earlier entry on Happiness prompted me to explore the idea further and I did not need to go far, for, on October 4, there was this story in the New York Times about Bhutan and Happiness. The Times reported that,”...In 1972,King Jigme Singye...
Sep 7 2008
Salary: “Every Muslim knows his life is not his, since it belongs to this violated Islamic nation whose blood is being spilled. Nothing should take precedence over this.” Eligibility: If you are into video production and for editing...
Oct 18 2006
Nintendo did well to launch Wii early in the holiday season. Media outlets have loved the console. Wii pre-order campaigns have been a big hit. Despite so-so FPS controls, many media publications including CNN have marked up Wii as a hot buy in this...
Oct 16 2006
The health department in Britain has launched a campaign to fight heavy alcohol consumption among young people. Commercials designed to shock have been made for the purpose - the ads show binge drinkers paying the price for acting nothing can happen to...