Why Are We Such Angry Birds On Twitter?
IF YOU are addicted to the British tabloids, you will know that between 2002 and 2007, British confessional columnist Liz Jones and husband Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal had a very public courtship, marriage and break-up. Jones’ widely read Sunday column had a blow-by-blow account of everything that happened in her love life. During the marriage, Nirpal...
Porn At The End Of the Rainbow
THE MOMENT in which your innocent sex tape turns into porn is the moment when English news channels talk with long faces about privacy and the Hindi channels, with less long faces, use variations of the phrase ‘zaleel harkat’. Until that moment, the sex tape1 was something you made one bored afternoon or slightly drunken...
How Much Huff Is Enough?
In the way that some cultures turn to rudaalis — professional mourners — to ease their goodbyes to the recently departed, we turn to our favourite bloggers. After momentous events we go online to see what our good man or woman has said. Mommy blogger, geek, scenery-chewing diva or girl-about-town — there is someone out...
The Internet runs on love
Clay Shirky‘s Here comes Everybody is one of the best books I have read about the Internet and culture. The last time I was this enthusiastic about an Internet culture book was when I read David Gauntlett‘s Web Studies, five years ago. When Gauntlett was writing the first edition of Web Studies most media...
Internet Confession Queens
Iris Scheiferstein, She thought I am mostly bored by personal blogs. Very, very rarely do I enjoy sex-and-the-city blogs. It’s probably comes from being incredibly old but there’s another tiny reason. I have listened to enough stories about other people’s love lives (and talked about mine) to last three long-running television shows. It’s fascinating only...
Bloodlust at the altar of the books
ON THE Internet you can find atleast three other people who share your unlovable, shameful habit. Any unlovable, shameful habit. Even book cataloguing. A dozen new social networking sites allow you to share lists of books that you have read or want to read with thousands of other people. That rude girl who sniffed at...
