9 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer

Good article with simple steps that could be followed for achieving effective results. Click the below link for more information. Hope, I can lay my hand on the book - "The Elements of Style" soon!

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/9-steps-becoming-great-writer-133000803.html

Tea Discussion - Friday November 29 2013

Hey guys,

Following is a brief coverage of a pastime discussion with my friend Abhishek where we munched over a specific topic along with tea on a rainy afternoon. Hope we might soon get our hands dirty in this idea! You are welcome to share your thoughts and hopefully be a future business partner! ;-)

Topic - 'Photos' – millions of photos per minute recording each precious as well as silliest moment of your life. How to mine/tap this treasure trove of information?

Text analysis has been exploited and tags are used for better semantic analysis – now it is turn for photo Analysis – image processing – Google goggles have made it feasible to search based on photos, though it is in its nascent stages. Also there are many photo apps such as instagram which have made photo sharing easy and lucrative to end users.

What features are needed - ability to identify what stuff you have, what could be marketed to you. What you tend to do often and what you like to flaunt. For example you keep posting photos of you and your dog, it is an ideal opportunity to market dog related products to you and more suitable if we are able to identify your dog’s age, breed, etc. and market suitable products.  Similarly which places you have been to and what you can do. For example, if you keep visiting museums and post more art stuff,  then it is not apt to promote safari trips to you unless you have shown open mind towards it.  Also the application can keep track of your interests and this can be used for future marketing to your kids and kinsmen based on human behavior studies. Whether it comprises your future generation’s privacy is a different question, but it will be definitely be helpful to detect what future trend will be. Many social experiments are being undertaken using the data shared at social network, one such freaky thing was posted in YouTube – show's host walks randomly to a person in the street and starts recalling like a psychic about all things which the person had shared in the social network using the location tags and his/her posts in the social network like twitter and Facebook. This definitely freaked out the audience, let’s see how much it will freak out the technology?

Onions and Tomatoes

You might be wondering what these two words might have in common which made me to keep them as title of this blog and also caught your attention to peek into it. Well, one is vegetable and the other is fruit. No no, both are the best out performing commodities in today’s crashing stock markets.

Is it not so?

Arrey baba, stop wrenching your teeth, can’t you take this simple crap statement from your fellow citizen when in fact you meekly accept it repeatedly from the guys whom you voted to power or better say remained a mute spectator in their selection process? Yes, this is what it sounds like when these so called social workers give explanation about their deeds. In fact it sounds more like childish. If you ask a child why he did something wrong, he will give us a wild story or blame it on the other guy which might be even a silly (loyal) dog or (indifferent) cat. If nothing works, his last option would be to cry to make you feel guilty of questioning him. So does the politicians. Best example is the missing of coal gate files explanation, it sounded similar to a primary class student’s explanation for his inability to submit the homework – ‘Dog ate my homework!’  Difference between literate and illiterate paid social workers is visible in their justifications.  The former educates you about economic terms which the later doesn't know theoretically, but both end up hedging. Does it prove that every man has a child in him? I am not sure about it, but I am sure that I don’t want a group of spoiled children to shape my future.

How about you?