content management system
I’m going to draw some parallels here between the The New York Times and The Hindu in the context of Times’s decision to shut or merge up to half of its blogs (Disclosure: I launched The Hindu Blogs in December 2012 and coordinated the network until May 2014)
career
No water and power at home today, so I wish you a horrible Tamil New Year’s Day, too. With nothing much to do – and the sun beating down upon Chennai at an unwavering 33° C that, in the company of still airs and 80% humidity, feels simply unlivable in
attitude
I’m not really sure how the internet works in space. I’m sure in whatsoever way it does, it’s a pretty big deal because it signals the ubiquity of human technology in a place where few humans can and do exist. And there are a lot of people
commercial model
When a print-publication decides to go online, it will face a set of problems that is wholly unique and excluded from the set of problems it will have faced before. Keeping in mind that such an organization functions as a manager of reporters, and that those reporters will have already
Big Physics
There’s an interesting phenomenon in the world of science communication, at least so far as I’ve noticed. Every once in a while, there comes along a concept that is gaining in research traction worldwide but is quite tricky to explain in simple terms to the layman. Earlier this
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Electric telegraph * July 27, 1866 – SS Great Eastern completes laying of Transatlantic telegraphic cables * By 1852, miles of American telegraphic wires had grown from 40 in 1846 to 23,000 * In 1849-1869, telegraphic mileage had increased by 108,000 miles Cost of information transmission fell with its increasing ubiquity as
credibility
There are a finite number of sources from which anyone receives information. The most prominent among them are media houses (incl. newspapers, news channels, radio stations, etc.) and scientific journals (at least w.r.t. the subjects I work with). Seen one way, these establishments generate the information that we
analytics
An experimental “democratic” revenue model for news publications new to the internet (that are reluctant to change their delivery styles)
citizen journalism
One of the foundation stones of journalism is the process of reporting. That there is a messenger working the gap between an event and a story provides for news to exist and exist with myriad nuances attached to it. There are ethical and moral issues, technical considerations, writing styles, and
