Daily Post 1452 FLAT SURVEILLANCE The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman published in 2005 brought this new concept to the world, that digital technology facilitated by internet provides the same knowledge resources across the globe. This connotes that people from all regions, given all the disparities, have access to growth using these resources. Conversely, […]
Daily Post 1451 SOCIAL MEDIA – AN ATTENTION EXTRACTION ECONOMY While we have been busy doing our work with earnestness for measly sums of money, proving our professional worth at every turn and twist of life, the IT behemoths of today, more so the social media variety, relentlessly kept on creating an Attention Extraction Economy.
Daily Post 1450 INVESTIGATION – IF WE DON’T CHALLENGE… The world is divided into disciplines run by professionals. The professionals are educated and trained and then go through the rigours of practice to deliver value. That value and quality is certified by the mandated system, and is accepted as the official, legal, norm and the
Daily Post 1449 TECHNOLOGY ACTIVISM We have been on the awareness mode of technology for over two decades now. It’s knowledge and usage doesn’t seem to have taken the quantum leap, which was dire necessity to be in trade. We remained to be satisfied with increasing the user base for all and sundry. We became
Daily Post 1448 MEDIA IS FOR MEDIA The last couple of months have been a defining moment in the history of mankind, the world over because of the pandemic engulfing us, which no one knows from where it originated, how it spread at the pace it did, the nitty gritty of the virus and how
Daily Post 1447 THE MARKETING OF ACADEMICS Body shopping is one term which this country fancies. This is generally used for providing manpower by IT and ITES companies making a commission in between. It happens in two types; one were the manpower is organised and is recruited by the concerned company or organisation. The process
Daily Post 1446 EVADE RESPONSIBILITY While we make mantras by the hour, pledged, solemnised and promised for a variety of use, with nothing to authenticate their success. The mantras which is a super success is the one to evade responsibility. The only catch is that it has to be done professionally, that everybody body around
Daily Post 1445 PRISTINE START UP ECOSYSTEM The Indian start up ecosystem given its age, diversity and numbers should have been produced its own treatises, guides to the Indian model of entrepreneurship. Not that entrepreneurship cannot survive without scholarly documentation of the journey, the lessons and some common matrix that come out of it, may
Daily Post 1444 AT WAR WITH PEACE! Peace is not a very common situation in today’s world, but fortunately for us but for naxalite stricken areas, most of mainland India remains mostly peaceful. The individual cases, with motives of crimes known, are bound happen in any society, does not come in way of peaceful enjoyment
Daily Post 1443 EACH TO HIS OWN! As our democratic journey gains in age and becomes more and more robust, in the “true democratic spirit of difference” is becoming more and more conspicuous. The missing element is the democratic mindset, attitude or DNA whatever you call it. Every element of democracy decides it own role
Daily Post 1442 PROFESSIONALS – PERIPHERALS! As we grow up as a student and dream of becoming a professional, the impression one gets is that professional rules the world. This understanding should hold ground as it is a natural presumption too, given the fact it is a professional world and is getting more and more
