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Went out for a movie last night – Inside Man. The movie was more than just mildly entertaining, and we had reasonable fun pre-empting most of the plot and scenes. As always, Sri and I have this amazing and magnetic quality of attracting the loudest movie-goers. Think of the ones with strange ringtones, people with [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 2 Comments »
I must describe you
tonight, before it ends for
words then melt at some
hour in the morning.
But then these syllables they
surface, like fish feed in the
aquarium. Some sink, others float
Then nourish your golden self.
My act of describing (and
feeding) belong entirely to
me. But on some days, and nights,
I spread myself further thin.
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Poetry and Fiction | 5 Comments »
I just finished reading a wonderful and insightful post at River’s Blue Elephants. She talks of poetry and the online medium.
I find the constant self-referentiality, the constant linking to archival material within an author’s blog very interesting. The immediacy of responses that mocks at cartographical boundaries, the iridescent web of contacts, the linked community, the [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Poetry and Fiction, Random Links, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 6 Comments »
What is my mother tongue? For a long time I used to write Tamizh (Tamil). Today as I was filling in one particular job application form, the term Mother Tongue was defined as “Mother Tongue is defined as the language you were brought up speaking.” Some other forms ask for your native tongue. Some even [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Rants and Rambles, Self | 9 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. We Media 2006 is scheduled for the first week of May 2006 in London. It was held last year in New York. From the website
The We Media Global Forum brings together the trailblazers of the connected society – the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, London, Media, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 1 Comment »
As it gets harder to keep track of sites that get censored, tagging them might make for an easy archive to go through. This one is for China. So you could tag sites/ blog with GFW (Great Firewall of China).
Sad thing is, once the government gets the wind of it, they’ll probably block access to [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 2 Comments »
London has its surprises. One of them I discovered was bonhomie and let’s-indulge-in-subversion generosity. In the evening I casually placed my travel card on the reader at Green Park station to find that my funds had been depleted. With a long face I stood at the counter where you get your card recharged. The ipod [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: London | 11 Comments »
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