Barkhagate and the internet

We have often heard, even in TV channel debates, that the media is not always true; that the journalists dont always break the story with the intentions of letting the people know the "truth". Barkhagate controversy is the real living example of this! Its a sheer coverup done by the media (not just NDTV but almost all the media houses - afterall you see the same advertisements on all the news channels!)

The only medium you probably ever heard of barkhagate is through the internet. But alas, we live in such a world (at least in this part of the world) where internet doesnt probably mean anything. We cannot get the kind of 'critical mass' that can scare the politicians or people with power (and who think they can do whatever they want) just over the internet.

Its probably time that India had a 'news channel' totally over the web - news created by and presented by the people themselves!

Just a thought at 3am in the morning. More on this when I wake up. gud nite!

"The Social Network" rocks!

Saw the movie today and absolutely loved it! Very well made, and great performances. Also was nice to see the real geeky stuff like wget and emacs talked about in the movie. Totally recommended!

Trolls on techcrunch

I am a fan of Techcrunch. I feel I am sometimes so glued to it that it often brings down my work-efficiency. But.. whatever.. I do like to sit back and relax in between those coding sessions when I am burning my keyboard with my lightning fast programming skills!

So, sometime back I saw this post by Vivek Wadhwa on techcrunch - talking about the various upcoming startups in Bangalore and other major cities in India. What eluded me most were the majority of comments - particularly by people I really term as trolls!

Its a perfectly benign post talking about entrepreneurship -something very very important for the economy of any developing country; the majority of discussion tha happens there is about "divorce"! It seems like these trolls are either "unhappily married" or a big fan of bollywood movies! But most importantly, they are probably the biggest moron the history of earth would ever see - what the f**k do they have to talk about western culture affecting their insecure lives when someone is trying to bring out the good that is coming out of our entrepreneurship industry.

I sincerely wish these trolls rot in hell! (By which I ofcourse mean that their OS gets hanged atleast 5 times a day!)