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Media wants to slow down Broadband?

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Well, it could be the big news. I have always felt about the lackadaisical coverage in the Indian media about Broadband. If a ‘media watch’ blog is right, this could well explain why media hasn’t run after the Government of the day; chasing it like a mad dog running after a car.

To quote:

Not so long ago, a much-feared Indian publisher who shall go unnamed wanted the broadband expansion in India to be slowed down because, well, it would woo readers away from his newspaper to the world wide web.

However, Times of India has a vested interest to promote Broadband now. In a blatant attempt to publicize it’s web property (a cesspool of stinking crap called as Indiatimes), it has carried a series of “news” mentioning about why “Cricket is fun online”. Of course, it’s juvenile attempt from Times but important nevertheless. Their attempts are going to face an iron wall of crap connectivity on Indian soil.

One word. Assholes.

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Do we need Open Wireless Connections?

I have advocated community Wifi connections; invariably you would find sods who wish to jam the networks with excessive downloads. However, these are mere assumptions because till the network is stress tested and bandwidh shaped or sharing ports blocked.

However, EFF disagrees with the basic assumption of “closed wifi” networks asking instead for different protocols. Howsoever, reasonable their demands might sound, I think it’s stupidity to let someone else piggy ride on my network; specially in the prevailing scenario.

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Blekko

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Over the past few weeks, I have experimented on the Internet and other web services. Although I use Duckduckgo as my default search engine (for nearly everything), I am interested to follow Blekko as the ultimate vertical search engine.

 

In the emerging broadband scenario, a new search from the default would be more than welcome; in day and age when new start ups spring up like fireflies, blekko seems to be there for a long haul.

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