Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications.

Time, Newsweek made the wrong calls
Week in and out, the two news magazines compete ferociously for access to presidents, celebrities and other newsmakers.

Try this Christmas Challenge
I could not go beyond Level 7 in this flash game.
Update: Reached level 14

Cell phone PC
Come January 2006 and DualCor Technologies will unveil its cPC, a cross between a WinXP PC and a smart phone running Windows Mobile 5.0

Dylan spins it
Bob Dylan is making like a rolling stone.

Microsoft's vision of the future
Everyone has a different idea of what fun gadgets they would like to see in the future, and some of Microsoft's researchers have been demonstrating in Brussels what they hope might take off.

5 ways to be the life of the party
Always a wallflower? Take our advice to get into the holiday mix.

Life imitates art
Man breaks into house to fix computers.

Restrictions on World Cup coverage
Newspaper editors might be surprised to know they won't be allowed to provide full coverage on their web sites.

Things I've Learned Being Single
Yes, they may be crazy, but hey I'm a little crazy at times.

Topless scandal
Well, unfortunately, it does not involve any celebrity and it's only a pair on sandals.

NBC edits pole dance from Elton John show
NBC censored a steamy pole dance Pamela Anderson performed while Elton John sang The Bitch is Back during his primetime special.

RIAA website hacked!
The list of the MP3's that were on the site were actually on the RIAA's servers and many people were able to download them.

Not your typical pinup calendar
A calendar put out by the University of Illinois is forgoing leggy pinup girls for a different kind of model. Rather, the school is going for a brainier sort.

TV fridge gets even cooler
You can watch TV on your iPod. Why shouldn't you able to watch it on your refrigerator?

Behold King Kong
Well, here's one way to give that movie review a big promo.

The gay experiment that started AIDS in America
There is no doubt that AIDS erupted in the U.S. shortly after government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments (1978-1981) using gay men as guinea pigs.

Headliner: Mayor Dalvi is pissed off
Mumbai's mayor desperately wants his needs to be attended to. He and his staff have been unable to use the loo in their office at the BMC headquarters, CST, for six months.
(mid-day.com)

CNN 'X's Cheney?
According to a very indignant Drudge Report, CNN repeatedly flashed a large “X” over Vice-President Cheney’s face during a live speech.

http://diggdot.us/
Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular -- this is a constant browsing cycle

The 7 deadly sins of blogging
'A rather strong title, but I want to share what I think are the seven worst things a blogger can do based on my personal experience.'

The time has come?
Dowbrigade News wants America to wake up.

Watch A Sketch
Watch this sketch materialize before your very eyes, starting with the skeleton. If you're impatient, click the x16 button to speed things up.

Sory Electronics
Will Sony make amends for infecting your computers?

I don't like emails: Sir Bob
Live8 organiser has revealed his contempt for e-mails, blaming them for tying up people's time and stopping genuine action.

The breakfast business
At a technology company you might think no one's around for a morning meal, but that's not so at Mountain View.

Most relevant media trends for newspapers
PR Week lists its picks for the 10 most important media trends. Nothing is new or shocking, but the list reinforces many of the predictions that have been being made for some time.

Killer mouse
There is every chance that anyone seeing this baby on your desk would call the cops

BBC News to launch reader comment system
The system will enable readers to post comments to the site before an editor has looked at them

First Indian blog network to be launched Oct 5
Another first for the blogosphere is set to be launched October 5 with the launch (of what I believe to be) the first blog network based in India: Instablogs

Top 10 worst products
CNET gave you its list of the 10 best products of the decade, but frankly, it had more fun picking the top 10 worst products of the decade

For a frank opinion, go to Greg
Greg Chappell grew up in a household where frank opinions were served up at the breakfast table more often than cereal and fruit juice, says Ian Chappell

Don't judge a book by its title
The marketers of Tom Wolfe's latest novel have decided his name alone should be enough to sell the book in paperback

Get ready for a blackout on STAR Network today
Don’t be surprised if your TV screens go black while watching the STAR Network on September 24

Reuters explains photo of Bush bathroom note
Don't blame the photographer.That's the message from Gary Hershorn, a picture editor for Reuters, about the photo that shows President George W Bush writing an all-too-human note during a UN meeting

Talking KBC
This Sunday, my buddy Tanvi and me grew more and more distraught, on behalf of a participant who couldn’t name the anchor of the television show, The Apprentice, says Merril Diniz.

Mystery of missing consul-general
A bold experiment in engaging People of Indian Origin and Non-Resident Indians in deepening relations with India has left a lot of red faces in Canada and raised eyebrows in South Block

Yahoo for mail, Indiatimes for Whatever!
Survey digs into online habits of Indian netizens

Aakar Patel, Mid-Day Group Editor-in-Chief, quits
The group editor-in-chief of Mid-Day will join Divya Bhaskar as its group editor-in-chief

Let’s Hail . . . a rickshaw?
More primitive than a pedicab. Some say degrading; others tip big

The rising music stars of tomorrow?
If you've kept your ear pinned to the ground this past year, apart from risking a nasty neck injury, you'll know that diversity within the British Asian music scene has hit a giddy peak, with emerging talent dabbling in a wealth of different genres and striking out against tired labels

Dalit writing makes its mark
Next month, the autobiography Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India will hit American shores

Mumbai's media war
Who's the winner?

51 per cent journalists use blogs: survey
And 28 per cent rely on them for daily reporting, says a survey of 1,202 US journalists from Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia University

Indiatimes on a digital overdrive
Bounty includes v-blogs, moblogs, IP TV – Whatever!

Journalism is a verb, not a platform
The message from the New York Times is powerful: Journalism is what we do. Print, web and broadcast are delivery vehicles

Will compact newspaper revolution take hold?
On August 29, another American newspaper will jump on the tabloid bandwagon

Lip syncing is now a crime
Ashlee Simpson, are you listening? A little travel tip for you. Don't go to Turkmenistan, your favorite genre of music has just been made illegal

Ain’t no party like a ‘Foreign Policy’ Party

Woo-hoo! Foreign Policy magazine turns 35 next month, and we just got a press release about the wild and crazy celebration the mag has planned

10 steps to a...
Do you want to make money in your home? Forget real estate scams, Tupperware, or becoming a spammer. Create your Web 2.0 company

Talk to me
A recent New York Times story on the Google Sidebar had an interesting side note about an annoucement Wednesday of a new 'communication tool' -- could this be the much speculated Google IM?

Newswatch India
It aims to become the preferred online destination for Indian journalists looking for information pertinent to their profession

Ram at large
Ramananda Sengupta on India's place in the world

20 most beautiful women under 20


The indiatimes list has Natasha Suri, Aarohi Misra, Sneha Ullal, Deepika Padukone and others...

Journalist assaulted in Mumbai
Ashish Shukla, PTI's cricket writer, was attacked by the driver and his associate when he was travelling in their taxi from the domestic airport to international airport to catch a flight to Johannesburg en route to Harare to cover the India-Zimbabwe cricket series

DNA rocks
At Velocity, Mumbai, on August 16
(More photos)

Best English learning resources
Recommending websites is not what I do but I found these four sites very helpful for people studying the English language like myself...

Blog censorship?
A report alleges Google’s new flag feature has been used to censor a blog on the grounds that readers have disagreed with the opinion of Ashok Banker

Story behind JK photographs
Only cops in disguise

Independence Day

Sports scribe Darryl Crasto passes away
The Times of India sports editor and former president of the Sports Journalist Federation of India passed away in Mumbai after a prolonged illness

Coming to a TV near you
Looks like another veteran journalist is signing up with al-Jazeera. This time it's British broadcasting bigwig David Frost

Emmys come to Mumbai
Jennifer Aniston and our own Malini De (Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin's Pari) may soon have something in common! How's that? Simple. The Emmy Awards are coming to India!

News Flash: Blogs overrated
Turns out not many people read blogs -- but you already knew that

Employers fume as staff surf
The most common ways of wasting time at work are chatting on the internet, reading electronic newspapers from home countries, checking share prices and paying personal bills

A news junkie's nightmare
Newspaper reading was fairly simple till a month ago

'Witch' Indira


Former US President Richard Nixon called Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi an 'old witch,' according to recently released documents from the 1970s. His national security adviser Henry Kissinger said, 'the Indians are bastards anyway' in the run-up to the India-Pakistan war of 1971

Headliner
Big phish in jail
(www.techdirt.com)

India plans free software for all
Government has no plan to promote open source software over proprietary products

Newspapers are f***ed
Kurt Andersen claims he has merely stumbled from job to job. But a peek at his résumé — which includes such big media names as The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Time magazine and the Today show — suggests there is more to his success than just luck

I hate it when this happens!
You spend all night coming up with a hot headline to go out in, and then that bitch from across town totally shows up in the same thing!

IIFA Awards 2005
Photographs from Asians in Media

Can Google News robot rival the newspapermen?
A potential nightmare faces the 'dead-tree-and-ink' business

Valentina Pedroni speaks out... finally

The 35-year-old blonde is near the end of an acrimonious divorce battle with Arun Nayar, who dumped her for actress Liz Hurley

India a failed state
Political commentators in India are fond of calling Pakistan a 'failed state,' but few Indians are willing to admit that their own country is hurtling towards anarchy, says Ravi Shanker Kapoor

Headliners
Tiger booked for hunting deer
(The Times of India on Pataudi)

Zimbabwe president denies he is dead
(msnbc.com on rumors of Robert Mugabe's death)

Worlds 100 largest newspapers by circulation
Did you ever wonder which newspaper is the largest in the world and where it comes from?

PS: It is not The Times of India!

The rocking homelessness of Mumbai's 'Local'
It's a literary take on Mumbai's famous local trains that brings alive the "rocking homelessness" experienced by thousands of travellers in this city every day

59Bloggers The Movie
Now in production -- a feature film about the new senate of the people, by the people, for the people

The fastest man around the world
After almost a full week of waiting in Mumbai, Nick was finally united with his trusty steed

Bombay's longest ride
The conductor of bus 524 almost choked when I asked for a ticket to the last stop, handing him a 10-rupee note

Star Wars: The desi version
Star wars, the concluding part of the cult film, has broken records worldwide. Closer home, we have our own interpretation of galactic battles. Some of these are hearsay; some documented, albeit in gossip columns. Look not for veracity in these stories, because the truth, as any cosmic traveller will tell you, is always out there

Don't use e-mail, just grab a blog feed
Blogs are revolutionizing the world of creativity, communication and community

Chennai's own Elvis

When Engelbert Humperdinck takes the stage in Bangalore on June 9, belting out golden oldies like The Last Waltz and There Goes My Everything, crooning the evening away as only he can, he will be the closest that he has been in a long time to the city of his birth — Chennai

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Tussaud trouble
Suit against waxwork empire for alleged misrepresentation and breach of contract

Pope Ratzi on sale


Courtesy: www.sploid.com

A blog...
about bloggers

Mumbai to get no-nonsense newspaper
...which means The Times of India, Indian Express, Mid Day, Asian Age... are nonsense newspapers?
Also read: Mumbai Mirror mirrors Mid Day

If I lose my job...
I can become the editor of Economic Times, says Finance Minister P Chidambaram

What Bush is saying when he is talking
The US President, who held just 14 formal, solo news conferences between his 2001 inauguration and the 2004 election, has faced reporters' questions every month since his re-election last November

Headliner
Bombay closes book on street 'library'
(Reuters)

WSJ in pictures
Business Wire has released early stage mock-ups of what a compact Wall Street Journal could look like

Headliner
Staines murder: Dara gets life after death
(The Indian Express)

Battleground Mumbai
The media buzz from agencyfaqs:
Dina Vakil, resident editor, The Times of India, Mumbai, making way for Derek D’Sa, who was resident editor, Times of India’s Kolkata edition. Dina is likely to stay on as consulting editor

Avirook Sen, associate editor, Hindustan Times and editor, Sunday HT and HT City will be resident editor of HT, Mumbai

Ravi Srinivasan, resident editor, The Times of India, Pune, heading towards Mumbai

Bipul Guha, art director, Hindustan Times, heading towards Mumbai to helm the design functions at Daily News and Analysis

Playboy TV eyeing India?


Government officials have been sounded out at a very informal level over whether laws in India would ever permit adult content on television

Vote Labour?

Who answers 911?
It's the phone number that can help save a life. But calling 911 and expecting help to come running is becoming more of a gamble than ever before

Time Warner loses employee records
Tapes misplaced when firm was moving them to an offsite storage facility

Hello darkness
Mumbai’s iconic billboards will blink out. A symbol of an unprecedented power crisis across the state in a time of unprecedented growth. But the state govt is too busy with morality lectures to bother about a loss of Rs 100 crore — every day