So, less educated drivers cause more road accidents? Think again.

Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general, educated people...

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PODvantage

Self publishing is no more vanity publishing and in this age of e-publishing more and more brick and mortar publishers are adapting to the new trend. In this article Debashish Chakrabarty and Ravishankar Shrivastava...

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An interview with Dr Sugata Mitra

An interview with award winning scientist & proponent of the Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment: Dr Sugata Mitra. He started the experiment at the slums at Kalkaji, Delhi in 1999 & proved that...

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Blogger block

Charu refers to an article on how to deal with the blogger burnout, a term I came to terms with when Jivha quit blogging. For me it has been more the case of Blogger block rather than burnout. I have never been a zealous blogger anyway but few months back I at least would right […]

Happy 2006

Null Pointer wishes all it's readers a very happy and prosperous new year!

Reading blogs with an Opinmind

Thousands of issues are raised everyday in blogs and among all those heavily opinionated posts, sometimes you wish you could get to know about both sides of a story, effortlessly. Opinmind is a new blog-search engine that does precisely that. It displays both the “positive” and “negative” opinions on the searched topic, with a “sentimeter” […]

Customized widgets with Google Module API

Google has expanded on this idea of customization of their homepage and now you can come-up with your own custom widgets for the whole world to use. Within days of Yahoo releasing version three of its widgets, Google has made its API to make modules public for developers to create modules, possibly host them at […]

Indic Blogger Awards

Raman informs that Microsoft's BhashaIndia, a portal on Indic language computing featuring the Microsoft solutions, is coming up with its “Indic Blogger Award” for blogs in Indian languages. Boasting of eight categories with 11 Indic languages in the fray this sure will provide the necessary boost to bloggers like us. Wonder if they owe the […]

Delicious, says Yahoo!

Yahoo has acquired del.icio.us, the pioneering social bookmarking service made by Joshua Schachter, an unpredictable yet great move for the giant after the Flicker buy. With Yahoo hopefully integrating and augmenting the services, it seems tagging would now be everywhere. What a tasty way to end the year!