Breaking News- Twitter is killing Blogs! Is anyone listening?
That is the reason why this -and I’m sure, many other- blogs are well on the way to oblivion. Blogging is like a test match. You need insane patience, you never know how long it would be and most importantly, whether it is worth the efforts putting in. Twittering, is more like the T20 game. Latest, Innovative, Improvized and Miniaturized version of an previously popular game.. which is set to take over it’s predecessor. I didn’t find Twitter much appealing initially, but lately I’m finding myself significantly hooked to it. The story of my life. Like today, I had this sudden and almost indomitable urge to tweet about my feat in achieving 0.00 balance in my phone. Sad. Lame. Sadly Lame. Lamely Sad. Go ahead, I won’t stop you from judging me. I surely don’t have any discretion after saying that publicly.
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Facebook is the new Orkut. I’ve been considerng to change my home page pretty soon to Facebook. My orkut is dead. Or would be, in a month or so, if the things didn’t change drastically; and I see no possibility of that in near future. So.. Dead! This phenomenon of social networking sites, some people will never understand. And by “some”, I mean people in their thirties, mid-thirties. It’s one of those idiosyncracies which our generation will boast of in future. You know son, I met your Mom on Facebook; which is really a remarkable and unique paradigm of interfacing, because facebook never supported strangers interacting; unlike Orkut in it’s infancy. Fancy that!
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The oscars are out. Slumdog Millionaire is clear cut winner of the tournament this year. It’s a good movie. One or Two oscars would have been more than sufficient to honour it. But Eight! And just Two to The Dark Knight? For me, this marks the beginning of total disbelief in Oscars henceforth. Most certainly, bollywood has churned out some better movies than this one. I’m not saying it’s a bad movie. Just that, we’ve made better, which deserved to be acknowledged; but were not. It kinda feels like some charity-cum-conspiracy to placate. Just because the movie is based on India, lets give it oscars. Coz China and India are the forces to reckon with currently.
For the ‘best movie’ category, I think The curious case of Benjamin Button was miles ahead of it, notwithstanding TDK. Oh, and by the way, TDK wasn’t even nominated in that category! Here is an interesting fact- All the 5 movies nominated in that category did a combined business of $270 million [approx]. The Dark Knight, on the other hand, is only the fourth movie in the history to cross $1 billion mark.
I finished Watchmen. Perhaps for the first time, I didn’t find something [especially in this genre] as much appealing as I had expected. I guess Alan Moore messed up the ending. It was good while commencing. It became better in the middle. And just when my hopes were raising, it crashed them down flatly.
There are bad vivas. There are worst vivas. Mine was embarrassing today.
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to be remembered from time to time that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde.
facebook is, of course, the new orkut…. but really u think twitter is set to replace blogs ?
@ smit
Start twittering my friend, only then you’ll be able to appreciate what I was saying here.
So true! Twitter has given everyone an easy shortcut, and slowly people have become so addicted to it, they just can’t muster up the patience to write a full blog post.
Slumdog was a perfect example of how American audiences love anything you feed them about poverty and slums in the Middle-Eastern area. I agree it was a good movie, but as you say, there have been better. Much better.
What you said about slumdog is so true,I couldn’t agree more.
I’m not a very good critic but what I hated most about the whole slumdog experience were the subtitles.I mean,what is more distracting than reading subtitles even when you understand the language being spoken perfectly well!
I tried not to read ’em but it was so difficult to ignore them!
Well Twitter does work, I found your blog through a tweet. As @ smit says, jump in the water is fine and you will find it will add to you blog 🙂
Follow me on Twitter @woywegian
@ Sneezy Melon
Thanx! For agreeing with me verbatim. 🙂
@ Potato-chips
Err, my friend, you missed one very damn important point here! The subtitles were for firangis, not for us desis. I assume it was just a slip-of-mind. B-)
@ Greg
Yes it does! Too much, rather.
Haha, blogging is test match and tweeting in T20. Very well said!
I’m happy that I don’t get those “Fraaaaandship” requests on FB like on orkut.
Orkut has #failed miserably trying to copy so many other networking sites and adding those clumsy apps.