The New Media

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MEDIA, is the plural form of MEDIUM, a word borrowed from Latin. MEDIUM, early developed the meaning “an intervening agency, means, or instrument” and was first applied to newspapers two centuries ago.


The meaning of the word has evolved. If the stated objective of being a ‘medium’, is accepted as the true meaning, then whatever correlates and interacts would be media.

Newspapers and the entire print medium (including books) would be media, so would television, radio, the Internet (the biggest media conglomeration today), PR activity, public speaking, interactive travel, interactive areas in IT, and, with phones pushing the limits of technology, we can accommodate SMS, MMS, streaming videos, even voice calls as media activity.

In short, it has become rather confusing. No, I am not attempting a Unified Force Theory in the Media atmosphere. I am just wishing there could exist a common interface which is simple, yet accessible and affordable that could ease this multiple access point issue.

I invite you join in the discussion and place comments on new media avenues (even newer avenues) and possible conglomeration, and its or their possible monetisation. Let ideas not be restricted by available walls of separation; we should all live outside the box.

In order to find some order in this chaos, let me start the issue at one point, if I may be allowed. Please do not e-mail me. Just go to my blog: http://sujitbhar.blogspot.com/ and leave your comments against this upload.

Idea 1 (for today):

1. The handset or cellphone will replace daily newspapers in the near future.

That is the Motion. Please mention for or against while you write.

Thanks for taking the pain to participate.

Looking forward to a lot of media activity.

Rgds,
Sujit Bhar
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..... and finally, here is our 2008 Women Drivers Awards

WOW ! ! How the heck...?!?
Oh never mind... CONGRATULATIONS ! !

This concludes the
2009 Women Drivers Awards Ceremony.
Thank you to all contestants for giving us all a reason to laugh smile

Nuclear Boo boo

The Nuclear boo boo has struck again. This time it takes the form of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. There are mailers doing quick rounds, saying how much the US is exploiting the world by capping liabilities. I agree, it is bad to cap the liabilities. But wait a minute. What was it like yesterday? There was no cap, because there was no accepted liability. So if your country, while transporting nuclear items, does mess up, you got crapped upon. Instead, security agencies would have rounded you off for radiation risk and posted you to Santa Claus for recycling.

This at least makes a point of paying you something. Let the bill and act be in place, ladies and gentlemen, then we can act to make the booty bigger.

One more thing.. all this has had nothing to do with US interests. If anything, the bill will address a huge gap that we have lived with for so long.

Let us also accept, as educated and enlightened individuals, that nuclear energy needs will only grow in the coming years with more protests against fossil fuels. This is a cheap source of energy and we need to supplement our requirements here. Accepted that nuclear energy sourcing is fraught with risks, but if we look back at the Bhopal Tragedy, we realize regulation installations can also pose as big a threat. No liability issue has been established in those so far, so in that sense the atomic energy commissions of all countries have gone a step ahead. This must be lauded.

We need to also realize that India is on the verge of getting into the top nuclear energy league and how many of us can really say that we don’t need the extra energy that could come our way in such methods?

Please go to the following link for a relevant Pdf file that you can download:

http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC48/GC48InfDocuments/English/gc48inf-5_en.pdf

I understand Greenpeace is a great organization, but instant petitioning, raising the US spectre isn’t in the best interest of the population. What does Greenpeace say? We go back to the stone ages?

I request all thinking individuals to please think before signing any such petition. Read up relevant documents and then act, whichever way it is necessary to act.

I will be glad if you could please pass this around. Of course I am not acting in behalf of the US govt J that we all should know….

Regards