I used to be called a blogger and now I am a Twitter,a Snipper, A NewsViner, A Digger----the many incarnations in a lifetime all thanks to the tools created for the virtual world.With the amount of information inundated on the WWW,we have innovators coming up with these tools to help us classify and segregate information as per our preferences.Likewise,in the hoarde to be a tech literate i thought of checking them out to know whether they really help in making a difference to the kind of information that is available to me.
I chose to be a digger first.Digg allows you to share article,images or video online.So what's so unique in that werent these taken care of by Orkut and Facebook.But the USP is its like a big voting machine that works on the principle that the more you digg the better are the chances of bringing your piece to the popular category.So you have the power to digg or bury the content.
What's the word with being a NewsViner,ah! heard of grapevine then newsvine is exactly that,you become a virtual reporter and spread the news /rumours around.Indeed,Someone took it seriously that grapevine is the fastest way of communication!Being a snipper allows you to download all the e-books,web-shared content hassle-free.
Understand this,it looks like a democratic way to use the digital media but like most of the time democracy is fooled.It's like a small toy with big packaging.It's like how we think of malls where we end up buying all the unneccessary stuff wooed by the great display and shunning those kirana stores where we got things predecided at home without burning a hole in our pockets.In line with this we are using the internet in a similar way,we end up spending more time figuring out and popularising those webpages being the digger,twitter,snipper..blah blah that we forget the most important things to be done.
I chose to be a digger first.Digg allows you to share article,images or video online.So what's so unique in that werent these taken care of by Orkut and Facebook.But the USP is its like a big voting machine that works on the principle that the more you digg the better are the chances of bringing your piece to the popular category.So you have the power to digg or bury the content.
What's the word with being a NewsViner,ah! heard of grapevine then newsvine is exactly that,you become a virtual reporter and spread the news /rumours around.Indeed,Someone took it seriously that grapevine is the fastest way of communication!Being a snipper allows you to download all the e-books,web-shared content hassle-free.
Understand this,it looks like a democratic way to use the digital media but like most of the time democracy is fooled.It's like a small toy with big packaging.It's like how we think of malls where we end up buying all the unneccessary stuff wooed by the great display and shunning those kirana stores where we got things predecided at home without burning a hole in our pockets.In line with this we are using the internet in a similar way,we end up spending more time figuring out and popularising those webpages being the digger,twitter,snipper..blah blah that we forget the most important things to be done.
In the pursuit of being tech-savvy we are forgetting that a much real word exists with real people,real thoughts and real values.No need to digg,bury,snip or poke them...they exist in reality. So surreal...they say..........
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