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My apologies to those who’ve been waiting for Parts 9 and 10 of this series; there have been a number of things on my mind, and I wanted to freewheel along, dwelling on other subjects, while pondering on this. It’s like when you want to remember something and can’t ….. the best way out seems [...]

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I love guitars. In fact I love musical instruments in general, they fascinate me. Not that I know how to play any of them; they get used by my children and by my friends, and that’s fine by me. While I love music, even my worst enemy wouldn’t accuse me of being particularly talented, musically [...]

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Dandleword: A word or short phrase that conveys depth and richness of meaning, a richness completely out of proportion to the size of the word or phrase. [Don't bother trying to research this, I made the word up. After all, it's Sunday.
Those of you who knew me in Calcutta may also remember that I had [...]

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A few days ago, I posted something about The Becuase Effect (sic), referring people to Graham Barrow’s question in the Feedback column of the New Scientist. Graham was asking about the frequency of common misspellings, particularly typos, and in a comment on my post he mused about the way such words enter language, whether “becuase” [...]

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I used to think I’ve been a foreigner all my life. My father was born in Calcutta. So was I. But we “came” from the south of India, we were Tamils; you could tell that from our names and, more particularly, our surnames; from the way we spoke; maybe even from our hair or our [...]

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The latest issue of the New Scientist poses an interesting question in its Feedback column:
Is that rigth?
LIKE so many Feedback readers, Graham Barrow has an enquiring mind and a zest for research. So when he found himself wondering how common his most frequent misspellings were, he went straight to a famous web search engine to [...]

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I try and spend time understanding each of the genres emerging over the last decade. If you want to understand the power of stop-motion animation and video, this one’s a good place to start. [I guess I liked it because it was in a library...]

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If you haven’t seen it, definitely worth a look. Particularly if you want to try and understand even a smidgen of what it means to be Generation M/Y.  I could give you a more detailed assessment, but there’s a risk that I spoil it for you. It’s only about 4 minutes long anyway, so I’m [...]

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Ever since Doc Searls discussed the concept with me maybe two years ago, I’ve been fascinated by VRM. Whenever I have an electronic relationship with someone who provides me with products or services, it becomes possible to capture the conversation and transaction flow in a persistent and shareable manner. But whose information is it? [This [...]

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I’m pretty loyal to WordPress; it’s the only blogging platform I’ve ever used, and I even wear the T-shirt (the red one). And one of the loyal things I do is to read what they have to say under “Other WordPress News” every now and then.
Today, while doing just that, I came across this story [...]

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