Where more means less

Published on August 14, 2008

While the media, questions the presence of aliens, and the myriad love affairs of movie stars and cricketers, and replays scenes from comedy serials/laughter challenges/quiz shows, debates on the best dressed, and the worst behaved, and discusses and analyses the endless saas-bahu sagas on television, I wonder where all the good men and women (read journalists) and the good half-minute news bulletins have gone! I enjoyed the intelligent debate on TV with the classy debates on the Trust Vote in Parliament, when the sophisticated veterans of Indian journalism – Pranav Roy, Vikram Chandra, Vinod Dua, Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Datt – were guiding logical and well-informed discussion.


The perils of corporate blogging

Published on July 8, 2008

Beware of what you say it and how you say it ….


Writing Freely!

Published on June 20, 2008

So, when I was asked to make a user guide in MS-Word for a web-application, I did the needful, but also went a step-ahead to offer an online help, which could be integrated into the application. Customers are happy when you offer them a little more than what they accept; and needless to say my customer was glad. The only glitch being nobody wanted to offer me a licensed tool.


Musing of the day- On writing

Published on May 9, 2008

Writing is an act of courage. But it’s worth taking the risk.


Musing of the day- On structured authoring

Published on May 8, 2008

“What is needed on the content assembly line are writers who know how to build single sentences from a few fragments of information and who can do this all day long. A structured-authoring assembly line is not so much a “creative” environment as it is an assembly environment.” – Eric Kuhnen Share and Show: