Internet is the real information revolution and threat, if any, to newspapers is to be viewed as benign. This is about TECHNOLOGY.
Please remember & recollect : We first had Slate and Chalk; then moved to Paper and pencil; then PC and print-out. Now the boundaries are simply disappearing as we see in this forum itself. This is the reality that everyone should embrace gleefully.
It is not just Internet. "INTERPLANETARY INTERNET" will soon be on its course and that is real. It will allow everyone of us to access information and even CONTROL EXPERIMENTS taking place far away from EARTH. Vinton Cerf, the co-founder, is currently working on standards to guide internet communications in the SPACE ERA. Simply astounding.
We all pay taxes right?....then why we should pay AGAIN for rail ticket / RTO/GOV hos/GOV SCHOOL/COLLEGES ..University fees etc etc ?...... these Ba.....trds take our tax money to build their family wealth and want us to pay 2 time?.....why why...they travel FREE , eat FREE, get vehicle FREE, servents FREE,mobile calls FREE,foreign travel FREE, medical FREE,...than again handsome pension ..and we on other hand keep paying 2 times one for Gov and second time for these B..s ..?....now watch how they will FORCE us to pay to RECOVER the loot of these B..s by increasing the TAX ...i say why we should not start acting like what they are doing in GREECE...
Dear Finance Minister is the meaning of Budget is to make plan to recover the LOOT of last year from aam admis pocket?
You have any question. Google it and you will get some good idea. internet is better than our head. you want to see how american president spoke to make US rich. see their video on youtube. want to choose best hollywood movies on leadership, buisness, romance, oscar winner. type it on google or your tube. learn the story and then watch it on dvd with subtitles. if you are school teacher. go online make project and audio, video learning skills for your students. Internet is most powerful. only thing you have to do is use to for your advantage. anyway we live in global village. learn the world culture it will help you a lot. keep sleeping and we will be 100 years behind.
Re: Internet is your best friend.
by Sachin Purohit on Feb 23, 2011 01:00 PM
Whats more, with internet you can create news. Newspaper readers could not have syndicated themselves to overthrow a tyrannical government. But enter facebook and other social networking sites and you can create revolution.
Re: Re: Internet is your best friend.
by Sachin Purohit on Feb 23, 2011 01:03 PM
If nothing else, a bunch of RTI activists can gang up against corrupt practices of the government. Citizen Journalists, etc are a good initiative in that direction.
I think only youngster wud go for option of internet. In India many people start there day with reading newspaper. So internet cannot overcome the profound newspaper. Moreover when anyone have to read news they would not lik to boot computer. Internet wud b alternate to newspaper but it could not be replacement
Re: Case to case
by Sachin Purohit on Feb 23, 2011 12:55 PM
I am one of those who can not stay without news. However, since the time everything turned online, I have never ever bought a newspaper. I think it is a matter of how people want their news to be dished out. Maybe the people in their 50's and 60's, don't want to leave their habit of seeing a paper in front of them while sitting at their breakfast table. But if you keep die-hard habits aside, internet and TV news are definitely a substitute for newspapers. You get newspaper once a day. Online news gets refreshed every single moment. Booting of PC is not an issue considering the fact that once booted, you have bloomberg, cnn, cnbc, bbc, reuters, etc at your command and not just the news that is available on my newspaper.
even on sunday's i prefer reading news on the web than opening the paper.infact thru net u get varied opinions on the same news which helps in better understanding.
Re: Re: This article
by ll on Feb 23, 2011 01:34 PM
Very well. That's the point. Until the illiterates become literates, get bored of reading newspapers and grow a liking for Internet, this doesn't make any sense.
Re: Re: Re: This article
by Sachin Purohit on Feb 23, 2011 02:15 PM
They won't wait to get bored of newspapers before jumping to internet. They never were used to reading papers in the first place.
Not just the Internet alone! The way News Channels have Mushroomed on TVs giving us the "breaking news", will be another reason. And yes Mobile phones have made communication faster (another way of spreading the up-to-date-news).
However, Dont forget that we still have a population whose ago is 50 and beyond; And these are the ones who have grown around the News Papers. So, these papers still have a bit of "circulation life" left in them.
But yes, they are fast becoming a thing of past and i think its something we need to live with now.
Not just the Internet alone! The way News Channels have Mushroomed on TVs giving us the "breaking news", will be another reason. And yes Mobile phones have made communication faster (another way of spreading the up-to-date-news).
However, Dont forget that we still have a population whose ago is 50 and beyond; And these are the ones who have grown around the News Papers. So, these papers still have a bit of "circulation life" left in them.
But yes, they are fast becoming a thing of past and i think its something we need to live with now.
Hummmm not sure because there are certain class of people who still have habit of holding news paper while having breakfast and also in toilets.as many of citizens are low income and aged they will not opt for enews.
Press serves only as a bulwark of left-liberal-cracy. Not democracy. They lick the boots of Janpath 10 in India. They keep devoting space to some nincompoop of a royal family whose brain is only of a 10-year old kid. They eulogize a PM as a most honest man when he daddy's over a most corrupt regime in the world history. Do they deserve any sympathy from us?
