tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post114744344846507289..comments2023-10-30T17:07:19.996+05:30Comments on Don't trust the Indian Media!: Promotion Season / BloggingKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06885651813993966354noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147668476090178652006-05-15T10:17:00.000+05:302006-05-15T10:17:00.000+05:30It is news you are back. And you have re-discovere...It is news you are back. And you have re-discovered a lot. <BR/><BR/>I've made mistakes and blogged about things I should not, but I have become more circumspect of late and will have to stay that way. It's a dangerous world out there.(Great)<BR/><BR/>Cheeers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147595969638768802006-05-14T14:09:00.000+05:302006-05-14T14:09:00.000+05:30bona, that sounds a lot like what the ABP does in ...bona, that sounds a lot like what the ABP does in the cal office. I think blocks in media offices cause more harm than the amount of good it does. But, like I said before, it is their prerogative.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147580664845347092006-05-14T09:54:00.000+05:302006-05-14T09:54:00.000+05:30codey: since u refer to corporate blogging, etc, l...codey: since u refer to corporate blogging, etc, let me tell u how paranoid some orgs can get .. <BR/><BR/>for eg, in my current org, u cannot have internet access in office till u establish a case for it, and is approved by the function head ... now, even if u have the connection, there's a firwall on blog sites and any mail service - hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc ... <BR/>now that's taking data security to the limit ... <BR/>on second thoughts, it's actually understandable ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147508347659212472006-05-13T13:49:00.000+05:302006-05-13T13:49:00.000+05:30Corporate blogging is a totally different animal f...Corporate blogging is a totally different animal from personal blogging. I am not surprised that the media house told its chaps to keep things personal, I'd drawn up the blogging guidlines for our jig (which nobody bothers to read by the way ;-)), but it is more or less of an insurance policy, other than the standard disclaimers that go along with it, just in case someday someone should go let out information that is really confidential. But many software companies abroad, who have a lot to lose in terms of the numerous NDAs they have to sign, have managed it more or less without many problems. The thing is that we are still a bit behind the curve here, but we'll learn and catch up too. That said, it has been a prettty nice experience doing the blogs here, it has more or less done well by itself without too much intervention from us.<BR/><BR/>WFN, well, where do I start? When they started off, I was quite excited about it. Our team constantly checks the blogs to see what people are saying about us and we do often make changes and write back (I've written to at least three of them who'd blogged about something they did not like) to see what could be done. But there is just more spite and general nastiness these days on WFN. It is not like I agree with everything that the channel says or what they do, but somehow I don't agree with the nasty habit of saying nothing in public and leaking out privileged information (no matter how frivolous it is) just because they don't have the balls to put their names to it or raise it in the open. And the whistleblower/investigative journo/mediaah comparisions just don't make the cut. There is no whistle to blow about organisational problems, every company has them. Investigative journos put their names to the stuff they publish and often they risk a lot in doing that, even when, by the legal definition what they are doing in illegal one way or the other. And WFN is no mediaah, I was not quite completely in agreement wth PM, but he had the balls to stand by what he wrote. <BR/><BR/>But they really pissed me off a couple of days ago with the sexual harassment post. The topic was a highly sensitive one and involved at least one girl's life. They'd left enough clues on the blog to figure out who it was being talked about and some jerk named her too in the comments, while all they knew was from hearsay and posted it just to show off that they are in the know. Fine enough. But in the evening I get an SMS from a friend Bombay asking if there were rapists in our office and the sad thing is for all the ethics they spew and write about all WFN contributed was to turn the story into a rape. WFN is more like the online press club loo for gen x media pros, everyone sprays all over the white bits. It is all good fun, maybe. But it is certainly not constructive, nor does it change anything or help the few of us who are trying to get blogging more mainstream or acceptable.<BR/><BR/>URL blocking is kind of stupid and almost everyone's worked their way around it now. The funny thing is that after the block came into place WFN's pageviews have dropped drastically from the heights they were riding earlier and part of the reason why all blogspot.com subdomains are blocked is technical, unintended consequences from a numbskulled firewall appliance. But net access from offices is always a privilege, you can't really scream "undemocratic" because organisations are not democracies, regarldess of whether you report on democracies or not. Though I am still not sure if someone asked Blogger.com to ban WFN, because there is no Blogger.com or Pyra Inc anymore. It is all Google.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147468243017591412006-05-13T02:40:00.000+05:302006-05-13T02:40:00.000+05:30Like the sexual harassment issue, this one too is ...Like the sexual harassment issue, this one too is double-edged. Censorship anywhere is bad and within a media organisation, its rather ironical.<BR/>Am sure top bosses everywhere know blocking urls won't stop nebody, then y? We'll be stuck where we are unless someone is willing to stick their neck out and wait for self-censorship to finally kick into our society.<BR/>But let us be optimistic.<BR/>On a personal note. Visitors on my blog r so unexpected that i didn;t notice ur comments till belatedly. They have been published now, so do visit again.<BR/>nAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1147453001974450382006-05-12T22:26:00.000+05:302006-05-12T22:26:00.000+05:30My guess is Bharat Aaj :)My guess is Bharat Aaj :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com