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Asshole of the year award 2006: Final nominations

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I had a cool thought about this one. I was trying to single out a company for it’s claims having fallen to ground. The usual suspects of didn’t crow out in the this time; I guess the previous spike up their assess has cooled them down.

The pole position of course is tied up. I had first nominated GigaOm for the coveted position, which I feel that he would be courteous enough to accept. Even if he doesn’t, he is clear looser. For the uninitiated,GigaOM is a tech website that had indulged in so called “idea plaigrism”. We could excuse him for the present tense.

Equally vying for the pole position is the Indian consumer of Telecom. Frankly speaking, all the insults that we bear while using something as essential as a telephone. We can’t fucking unite on a single platform and force the companies to be more transparent about the tarriffs, about their policies, about complaint redressal, about their customer handling policies and of course for putting up with perhaps one of the crappiest and lousiest telephone networks in the world.

Where else would you voice your concerns? are wimps of the first lot when it comes to fighting for your rights. While it may seem convenient to sit back and sign online petitions, no one gives a fucking hoot to your “clicktivism”. You ought to make the media accountable, write in, organise protests and perhaps the easiest one of them all- blog!

I have faced undue criticisms, profanities, aspersions cast on my virtual character, cynicism of the first order while hanging out on the forums trying to muster up support for the email campaigns for “unlimited ”. I have faced innumerable hassles trying to figure out the maze of the governance- the fountainhead of the fucking misery in our lives. Still, I would say that as a consumer group we could raise our voices together and there is a lot that can be accomplished that way.

In any case, asshole of the year award would be tied up for both gigaom and the consumer- you all.

A very strong contender for the asshole of the year is -IBN. Interestingly I did write in a lot about them this year. -IBN gets a lot of flak; I wrote about them around in the forums, on desicritics and almost ever other place where I could think of. Still they deserve the boot and better off as ‘’ than anything else.

Send across your ideas on these worthy contenders soon. I’d be waiting for your replies :-)

An update. There is another asshole waiting in the wings suffering from so called ‘foot in the mouth syndrome’. He is the ‘exec’ from MChek, a payment gateway for claiming that we wouldn’t need any more landlines. Oh well, some mothers do have these specimens too.

This makes it four of them now! 

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this blog is not to attract readers. this is to tell the truth.

this blog is not to attract readers. this is to tell the truth.

Hi Abhisekh,
You could have put your criticism in a better way that would get more readers into your blog.I did not why you criticized Gigom so much?

Cheers,
Himanshu

Hi Abhisekh,
You could have put your criticism in a better way that would get more readers into your blog.I did not why you criticized Gigom so much?

Cheers,
Himanshu

Nanner dude...

You are a class in yourself!

i had like to nominate myself as the biggest asshole in this universe...

Suggestion well taken!

You call spade a spade in anycase. Abusing, if you call that, is a state of mind. While it is important to continue the "civilised" debate, at times one needs to hold up the mirror to the world and show them the "true" picture. This of course remains a very opinionated write up.

Nanner dude...

You are a class in yourself!

i had like to nominate myself as the biggest asshole in this universe...

Suggestion well taken!

You call spade a spade in anycase. Abusing, if you call that, is a state of mind. While it is important to continue the "civilised" debate, at times one needs to hold up the mirror to the world and show them the "true" picture. This of course remains a very opinionated write up.

I think you should mind your language a bit - and your blog will be a lot more popular. Your views might be interesting - but you can do with a thick coat of varnish...

i smell a lawsuit here. i just want to clarify that this post represents author's opinion not the webmaster's. ;)

i smell a lawsuit here. i just want to clarify that this post represents author's opinion not the webmaster's. ;)

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