Since my body and mind are refusing to do any productive work today, I thought I’ll spend some time to post this thought that has been ringing in my head for quite a while. As is pretty clear these days to any social media specialist, there is a very strong personal identity management aspect to [...]

I read the news of the blasts today, and it brought back bad memories. I was in Delhi the last time the city was victim to an act of terrorism of an even greater scale. This is what I had to say about it then. I just wanted to post a note on this blog [...]

A few days back, I stumbled onto this TEDTalk by Lawrence Lessig. It’s by far the most convincing description that I’ve come across of the state that our culture and law finds itself in today. Watch it and decide if you’d like to vote for drafting him into the Congress.

For a couple of weeks now I’ve been monitoring what I do on my Mac using two tracker tools: Wakoopa and RescueTime. Both have unique approaches to the theme of tracking. Wakoopa builds a social network around the applications that you use. It lets you build ‘teams’ of people and see what your friends have [...]

I got the link to this excellent post during my first InfoVis class at VT, it’s a great collection of Information Visualization projects on the web. A must-bookmark for anyone interested in visualizations. The web is like the melting pot for such applications, and that’s understandable, if not for anything else, then for the sheer [...]