Are you a member of the Digirati Club?

I discovered a great blog called HR’s Brand New Experience and this is going on my blogroll now. Read this post — “are you being left behind?” from the blog. Reading it is liking taking a peek inside an idealistic HR’s head. Excerpts from a related article —

A new Digital Divide is emerging between the Digirati (those that write blogs, use Firefox, read Boing Boing, use rss aggregators, etc.) vs. the “left behind” (who use IE, get their news from traditional media, don’t know what rss means, etc.)

I loved this sentence. I think corporate blogging is very important and an awareness of blogs and WiKis is very essential in selling a brand - be it with your employees, suppliers or customers. If there is a productive alternative to doing a job, then you are better off embracing it rather than playing by the rules — that I call “the policy game”! Gone are the IE days. It is the FF era. In every organisation there has to be a digital drive that focuses on the latest trends, the implications of not adopting them and how to capitalise them for brand promotion among other things. More than anything else, it is about the bridging the gap with the digi kids.

Highs and Lows of the weekend

Lately, the weekends have been good and I really look forward to them. Typically, we see a bunch of flop movies like Kaal (ofcourse, not on purpose) and then hang out with friends for lunch/dinner. Last Saturday, V and I met U..S at his place. He is an amazing man with a very dynamic personality. I’m fascinated by people who are good orators and he definitely figures in that list. He started talking about how he got involved with the “Art of Living” foundation. We attended a introductory course but it didn’t appeal me much to enroll for the session but V did. My hunch is that V enrolled in this class to catch up on his sleep every evening :)
Come Sunday evening and my mood goes on a downhill trip. Not too excited about going to work. Transitions are tough and if you just a have a bunch of PPTs to pour over throughout the day ,then it is all the more difficult. Well no more cribbing. I decided to use this time and catch up on reading. If only some one would pay me to read and write blogs, it would be awesome. So to get over the low moods, I resorted to retail therapy in the evening. That didn’t last for long either and now I’ve contracted a sickness called “Friends Addiction”. Oh yea the sitcom Friends I meant. I’ve been watching back to back episodes on DVD followed by the ones that appear on regular TV. I was surprised that even now there are some episodes in Season 4 that I have not seen. One of them was that of Joey audtioning for a show in Chicago. Just wondering if a “trip to Chicago” therapy would do me good:) Just kidding.

Beware of auction fraud at eBay

I was almost devastated exactly a year back on learning that we lost $1100 in our first ever purchase on eBay. I never wanted to blog about it. It is history now! The stupid incident came back to me when I read this article on BBC today. For all you know, we might have been one of his victims. We bid for a HP laptop and lost the bid. But the seller from UK was willing to sell it to us as the winner of the bid declined to buy. Excited about the price, we agreed. The stupid mistake we did was not to go thr PayPal and submit to his demand of transferring the amount thr Western Union. To this day whenever I see a Western Union counter anywhere, I turn red! He took the money promptly and the laptop never came. Subsequent complaints to Internet Police, FBI turned futile as it was beyond the jurisdiction of US Police too. We exchanged a few e-mails with the Internet Police who in turn directed us to UK police but as you would guess it turned out his address was wrong! Well, I’m glad that the guy is caught. Just so you know, most online frauds originate in Europe so think twice before you want to buy something from that region. And always pay through PayPal.

Talking about Blogging

The most often asked question when you join a new college/organization or goto a team building exercise is “Introduce yourself and tell us what your hobbies are.” I would have gone through this ritual more than 5 times in the past 2 weeks. This is one question which sounds quite simple on the surface. It is only when you start talking that you wonder “gosh..what are my hobbies?” I was literally fishing for answers after answering the easy part — muttering my name which btw is strange to hear from your own self. The day I joined, I was asked to fill a form for the HR in which the last section was about hobbies. Laziness and the inability to think clearly took the better of me and I just scribbled what first came to my mind which was blogging”. 2 days later, the HR approached me scratching her head spelling out the word - b l o g g i n g. She said, “L..i, What is your hobby and what does this word mean?” I explained that it was an online journal and she still seemed confused.
Apparently she had asked the same to a couple of people and no one seemed to know what it was! I went through the same situation a couple of times at various meetings and was lucky enough to find a few who did know what “blogging” was about. My answers on blogging became more passionate by the day and that was when I realised that I really love to read and write (which I obviously don’t regularly do) blogs.

As an Aquarean my interests have changed with time. I don’t know why I couldn’t think of my other interests such as watching Formula 1 and the crazy habit of seeing “Friends” every night. It is only the TV channel and the time that I still see “Friends” every evening has changed between Chicago and Bangalore.

Does anyone out there see Joey? I observed that the rating for Joey has dropped by 4%.

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