Do you tweet? Or, at least, do you follow tweets? I do and, although the micro-blogging website has the potential of turning you into an addict (or a twit?) it’s got its uses. More on that in just a little bit. First, a bit about what I’ve been noticing about the spread of twittering in India. Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s detained democracy leader, turns 64 on June 19, 2009. To mark that day and call for her release, a website called 64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi has been launched. Anyone from around the world can visit the website and leave a message of support for Suu Kyi in 64 words-text, audio or video. Read more

I read two pieces last week by two well-known personalities—newly anointed minister of state, Shashi Tharoor, and Thomson Reuter’s chief honcho, Tom Glocer— and thought I’d flag them for readers. Read more

My colleague Yashwant Raj has written about the mystery blogger who writes an often spicy but always an insider’s account of the goings on at one of the Indian Premier League teams. Lacing his posts with behind-the-scenes gossip and generous helpings of dressing room politicking, the blogger whose identity is still unknown, has become the talk of IPL Season 2. Many of his posts get comments running into thousands, something any blogger would give an arm and a leg for. Read more

Last week, the Dalai Lama, 74-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, had a predictable take on the global economic crisis. He said the “crisis is good because it reminds people who only want to see money grow that there are limitations”. Read more

Generally, I like to read blogs that let you do more than just ‘read’ text the way you’d read a printed publication. Otherwise, I find it a bit of a pain trying to plough through a thousand words on a computer screen. Blogs that link to multimedia content, where you can click to see images or watch videos or even to other blogs and websites are the ones that I find more interesting, possibly because they make better use of all of the wonderful things you can do on the Internet. Read more

You must have read about 28-year-old Indian-born Pranav Mistry’s digital prototype called the “sixth sense“, which  a wearable hi-tech device that can turn anything into a touchscreen. Your wrist can become a watch and your palm a phone. The device is combination of a wearable camera, a projector and a mirror where the camera recognises movements of the fingers of your hand and translates those into commands. Read more

With Pakistan in the midst of turmoil, it’s interesting to read some of the blogs by Pakistanis. On The Dawn blog, Musadiq Sanwal followed the lawyers’ Long March and blogged everyday till Day Five, when Zardari relented and resinstated Iftikhar Chaudhry as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His blog provides details of what he saw unfolding during the event, including how he spotted a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) flag inside the Chief Justice’s house after victorious crowds thronged the place. Read more

Many of us subscribe to dozens (even hundreds) of feeds from blogs and websites. My own list currently has 147 and they include everything–daily newspapers (Indian and foreign), magazines (ditto), e-zines, blogs, podcasts, etc. I try to check all the updates every day but, of course, I can’t. So here’s a list of some blogs that I simply Read more

A recent Supreme Court ruling on bloggers’ rights could have a huge impact on blogging in India. In a recent case where a 19-year-old blogger had sought the court’s protection against criminal charges filed against him by the Shiv Sena (which was irked by some comments on a blog started by the blogger), a bench of the court Read more