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MY FM’s RJ Meenakshi has crossed the 100,000 fans milestone on Facebook. Or so announces an eager story in Radio And Music. I’d however refrain from commenting on the quality of content and interactions on her Facebook page – take a look…
Update (November 17, 2013): As so many have pointed to this fact already, manual RT (with credit, without which it is simply plagiarism) could easily fall under ‘Fair Use’, even if tweets are not necessarily copyrightable. A wonderfully named website – Can…
This morning, I noticed 4 distressed tweets from Chennai’s RJ Balaji. I recall RJ Balaji having a spat with UTV when he had reviewed their Tamil version of Delhi Belly, Settai (I…
There has been a spate of open letters recently. There was the much-shared open letter addressed to “Mr ALEXANDRE DE JUNIAC, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Air France-KLM”, by Jay Shah. It has 1,000+ comments and Jay has been responding to many….
But first, if you are clueless, your question would be, ‘But what did Air France do?’ Answer… here, in Jay Shah’s beautifully written blog post. The better such missives are written – with wit, sarcasm and thought, the more the chances of…
Update (October 29, 2013): I got a call from Jet Airways this morning. Standard call letting me know that they will definitely look into it, but what made a BIG difference is that the lady start with, ‘I completely understand what you…
A wildly interesting thought occured to me while waiting for my flight at the crowded Delhi airport a few days ago. What if I was wearing Google Glass, there? What if the Glass had an app to search, identify and recognize faces…