In case you haven't read it yet, here is the article from Time Magazine. All about about how the net is bringing us together. And giving us the power to share, change and innovate constantly.
It's v interesting - the idea of web 2.0 being a social experiment. And implications for planning/ brands/ marketing...
For me, when I'm writing a new post - I think more about stuff that happens around me and try to draw on themes from what I observe. Even though it's mostly inconsequential stuff, it's a great way to talk to people whom I wouldn't normally run into on a regular day....
On a different note, I was kinda worried I'd miss London and the planning scene and how there's always stuff happening in the city. And I do - a bit. But I love being home, I'm full of energy and enthusiasm about life and work again. Markets, brands, consumers, the media.. things are changing constantly, and we have a long long way to go but it's fantastic to be part of the action. And in a small way, I think this blog is part of that picture too =)
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i think its a great time to be just alive and be in india and be doing what i am/ we are doing...
as i type this comment on my ibm think pad looking at the sea from my flat...i feel happy to be where i am...
for about 10 years of my life, i had wanted to move to the 'region'. so all my moves and the talk and the thinking in my head was always- consciously or unconsciously- focussed on the 'region'.
web 2.0, the opportunity to connect with people who can talk my language, the optimism around have cleared the 'region obsession' for me...
of course i would still take up an assignment if it comes my wayLOL but am at peace with myself.
in any case, while the body stays in bombay, the mind travels every second.
since morning i have conversed on mail to a 16 year old student in the US who wnats to be a film director, a couch-surfing 'friend' from London who just wanted to say hi, 'bob'( couchsurfer) who called me from Gujarat to say that he would like to stay with me again on his way back to the US, Kapil who just surfaced on Google talk and who would tell me things on technology that i never knew before...
there is so much to do and learn in Bandra itself that 'region' can wait...
btw i attended an awesomely great lecture by javed Akhtar yesterday evening at the Subhas Ghoshal Foundation... will blog the nuggets ....and yes chk out Santosh Desai cribbing on afaqs...:-)
Kajal, I'm glad you think this blog is a part of the picture. The opportunity we have here - unlike elsewhere - is to get things going and be the pioneers. In that sense, the Time Person of the Year has come at the right time :)
Just to add-on to Manish & IQ, web 2.0 has given a voice and the right to be opinionative to everything around us...a scope of learning and sharing which I guess no B school will ever teach us.
While it feels good to be a part of this 'YOU', Marcel Berlins in The Guardian has to say this...
"Time magazine's "Person of the Year" awards were started in 1927, since when there have been some pretty dodgy winners, Hitler among them. They clearly should not be taken too seriously, other than as a subject of mild end-of-the-year controversy. The 2006 winner, though, has troubled me for reasons that go well beyond mere dissatisfaction with the verdict. The winner was "You" - that is, us - and to make sure we got the message, when we look at Time we see ourselves in a mirror embedded in the cover. Actually, the You is not quite all of us, merely those of us who have contributed to the growth of the internet and all it contains - for instance blogging and participating in YouTube, MySpace or other "user-generated" sites.
A spokesman for Time admitted that, had they chosen a single person who "most affected the news and our lives, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse", it would have been President Ahmadinejad of Iran. But a lot of people would have been upset at that decision, so they plumped for the feel-good group, You.
for more from the article, go here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1975770,00.html
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