DailyPost 323 SOCIAL MEDIA & ACADEMICS From being declared the Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2006, social media today dominates the way digital technology is used around the world. Academics is no exception. Wikipedia is redefining everyday knowledge. The technological lag between educators & available cutting edge mediums have long been there; films […]
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DailyPost 322 URBAN REVOLUTION Cities have been redefining our existence as nothing else, in recent times, with majority of the world population headed to the cities; may it be education, polity, culture, a new way of living, economy et al. The simple understanding of push-pull factors of urbanisation, migration, the traffic snarls, the concrete jungle,
DailyPost 321 NEW BREED OF ATTACKS NEEDS NEW APPROACH The new breed of attacks in the last few months have been more than embarrassing for the IT world, more so the IT Security professionals. They can write endless Post Mortem reports on high profile hacks & the hackers but the landscape does not change. Lazarus
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DailyPost 320 IS COMPETITION AN ENIGMA? Competition is one word which most of abhor & relate to stress & strain prevalent all around the place. From school to top positions in the professional ladder, from free lancers to the politicians, generally finds oneself at the receiving end of competition. Facts throw up lots of contradictions
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DailyPost 319 SUTRADHAR A Hindi word in its English translation would mean a person who has the capability to take you through any activity, end to end. A thread to a garland, so to say. He was the person beyond a director of the ancient Sanskrit plays, performing the role as above. History transforms into
DailyPost 318 ACADEMIC PURSUIT Academic pursuit in the strict of the term or as per the general perception is studying or learning on a structured format. It is juxtaposed to having an interest in sports, music, fine arts et al. Pursuit is an urge in search of an accomplishment beyond known boundaries, structure is the
DailyPost 317 BALRIDGE CYBER SECURITY EXCELLENCE BUILDER US has for long used the Balridge Excellence Framework and gained considerable expertise based on this model in recognising organisations in business, healthcare, education & non-profit sectors for performance excellence. The Malcolm Balridge National Quality Awards is both a tribute to the utility of this model & of
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DailyPost 316 FORMATTING Once we able to write a sentence in the early years of our schooling, the concept of formatting makes way into our language psyche. English teachers, as ordained since times immemorial, take pains to align us to the accepted norms & systems of writing. Books like Wren & Martin have contributed their
DailyPost 315 ANONYMISATION OF DATA Data is the biggest asset today. By conventional wisdom & legality, the owner of the data is the person to whom it pertains to. Data as it stands today is put into use in ways, it would not have been imaginable till recent times. Personal data of different types are
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DailyPost 314 10,000 HOURS FORMULA EXTRAPOLATED Practice makes a man perfect is an adage all of us have grown up with. Malcom Gladwell in his book titled Outliers has quantified this adage into a rule, the 10,000 hours rule ; it’s the time required of dedicated practice to truly master a skill, may it be
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DailyPost 313 WHY NATIONS FAIL? Failed states is a concept and a reality which takes a huge share of our discussions on the fate of countries which make their way to success & the ones who are stuck up in a vicious cycle, never to emerge. A deep analysis of the issue in a book
