Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I had written about Google Buzz being forced, minimally relevant and largely pointless, earlier this year. After the privacy lawsuit and the eventual settlement, it looks like it is true. I don’t see massive traction for Buzz yet. What Google Buzz did…
A couple of weeks back, while driving my way back home in the evening, I was waiting for the signal to turn green in the busy Trinity Junction in Bangalore. A couple of pedestrians were waiting for their signal to cross the…
Have you seen this video at least by now? I’m sure you would have – it is one heck of an angry mob, at Delhi’s new swanky T3, also featuring a couple of completely clueless, lost, scared looking Air India staff. I’m…
Update on this post…added in the end. There are hardly ever any communication-related jobs in Times of India’s Ascent, but I check it nevertheless, every week. Perhaps a connection from my past life, as a corporate communication guy, in the client side….
There’s a lot of interest around social media newsrooms, these days. So, let me ask this straight – who is a social media newsroom targeted at? Let me start with this post on The Buzz Bin – Wake Up! Your Online Newsroom…
…or, for that matter, is Technorati, and even blogging, as a medium, still relevant? I used to eagerly look forward to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere (the 2010 report), till 2 years ago. Since last year, I’m not entirely sure if this…
The latest OPEN magazine has a piece, ‘Review of Reviewers‘, by Madhavankutty Pillai and Pratibha Singh that makes for very interesting reading. It talks of how Indian film makers and actors react to reviews and even says that there are just 7-8…