GenAI & the Convertible Modalities of Consumption

The modality in which we create our content will likely not be the modality in which it gets consumed, in the coming future. So, what can creators do about it?!

Are AI Chatbots Your Friend? Foe? Friday?

I think AI is (or will be) the new SEO. And I think the companies that move first will have a HUGE advantage...

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Traditional local news outlets are grappling with dwindling circulation and shifting audience preferences. But a new breed of digital platforms is emerging in their stead. Are we witnessing the dawn of a new era for local journalism?

Should collaborative knowledge be free by default?

The "You've been selected to answer..." feature on LinkedIn raises some thought-provoking questions about the nature of knowledge-sharing on closed platforms.

Will AI take away audio-editing jobs?

AI-powered audio tools continue to emerge. They promised to streamline and automate various aspects of content creation BUT will these technologies ultimately take away jobs from audio editors? The answer might surprise you...

A Podcast Just For ME!

What if you could have a podcast tailored just for you i.e., news about the topics you're passionate about delivered directly to your podcasting inbox?

Video isn't a threat to Podcasting...

There's a hot debate on about #video being a threat to #podcasts. IMHO, it's not. Because, when people say 'video podcasts' they aren't referring to Twitch, orTikTok, or Instagram, or even Spotify....

So, I was a runner-up at the 9th Annual KCRW #RadioRace...

An independent audio piece I made for KCRW's 9th annual 24-hour Radio Race was chosen as runner-up among more than a hundred submissions from across the world.

YABR: Yet Another Blog Revival.

Three days ago, I decided to shake off the cobwebs that had collected around this piece of internet real-estate. However, I had massively under-estimated the size of technical debt that had accumulated alongside these cobwebs...

Installing dokku on an Amazon EC2 instance running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Most of my self-learning Django/python projects are deployed on Heroku. The free instances that Heroku provides provide a great way for newbie developers like me to set up prototypes of ideas without worrying about having to spend a bomb. Therefore, when dokku [https://github.com/progrium/dokku], a privately

V. For Vendetta.

> “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony” > ‘Morpheus’ in “The Matrix” (1999) There was a time when the library was more than just a quiet place to bury your head in your books. There was a time when I used to peek out of the

Turning a negative into a positive.

When I was coding up views.py for HashPix [http://hashpix.herokuapp.com] I found that the Instagram API would sometimes barf at me with an APINotAllowedError exception. API not allowed? What?! How could that be? I was using the official python-instagram library [https://github.com/Instagram/python-instagram]! Why would

@updt_me: Subscribe to RSS feeds via Twitter

After HashPix [https://blah.42quirks.com/hashpix], I have been working on yet another side-project – this one is called @updt_me [https://twitter.com/updt_me]. What @updt_me [https://twitter.com/updt_me] is an RSS [https://blah.42quirks.com/read-the-feeds] reader via Twitter. The idea is pretty simple

Elegance lies in simplicity

The other day, I was trying to pick up nuances of DOM manipulation in JavaScript. As an assignment for myself, I set myself the task of capturing the value of an input box immediately after the TAB key had been pressed. It should be simple even for a n00b like

New beginnings... again.

Have you heard of the army-kids phenomenon? Okay, so that doesn’t exist and I totally made it up, but you know what I am talking about right? If parents keep shifting bases, the kids never seem to settle down either. This blog has shifted from shared JustHost server to

HashPix

Here’s why the blog has been silent all this while: I’ve been teaching myself software programming since last November and I’ve been pretty enthusiastic and rigorous about it all this while. Nothing big, just a bit of web-development using Django [https://www.djangoproject.com/] & Python [http:

Fine.

Just read an article on some news site and a very interesting bit jumped out at me: The fines in this country for flouting rules as a matter of day-to-day offences are ridiculously low. In fact, most netas and irresponsible fat-cats easily get away with paying amounts that are a

OOTD: Outstanding Credit Card Dues

So, I cancelled my SBI credit card today. Last night, I tried to buy a few apps on the Google Play store and found, much to my surprise that my SBI credit card got declined. Thinking that it was probably a mistake, I tried again. Same result. I called up

'ToS'sing and Turning.

I had signed up to Yahoo! Contributor Network a while back and they recently changed their ToS. I don’t recall their previous ToS (and they haven’t provided a comparative copy highlighting the changes) but the new ToS has some interesting points that struck me as odd. I realize

Sunil Chhetri's agrees terms with Sporting Lisbon. Wow.

I can’t tell you how proud I am of the fact and how happy I am for the guy! He definitely deserves it and I sincerely hope he brings massive success to Sporting Lisbon! Now, is there a channel that shows the Liga Zon Sagre matches? I hope Ten

The Write Way

They say writers need to have a keen sense of observation. That writers need to be hyper-aware of what happens around them, all the time. They are right. Well, almost. You see, you only become hyper-aware of your surroundings once you become a writer. Until then, you only have a

The Secret Millionaire...

…is probably one of the best shows on Indian satellite TV at the moment. If you haven’t caught it yet, catch it on BBC Entertainment, weekdays at 10PM. The premise is this: You are a millionaire and your ‘mission’ is to find someone/some cause to ‘help’. To do

Madhubala

Tribute to Madhubala on NDTV Good Times! Brilliant songs! She’s definitely the most beautiful woman to have ever walked this planet!

The Sense of Entitlement

“Opinions are like a******s; everybody has one & they all stink.” To add to the, (already disgusting) imagery: the ones that are closed harbor a lot more shit than the ones that aren’t.