Cogent Thoughts

Ever since the concept of reality TV has started picking up in India, 4-5 years back, it seems as if our nation has got a new national anthem. Everyone, people from all age groups seem to be smitten with the reality show bug. Fame, money, glitz, glamour and not to forget instant result is lucrative enough to grab anyone's attention. No wonder why? Every next person wants to be the next Indian idol, the next MTV Roady, or the next Cinestar. Fame, never used to be just a word, people used to work really hard for it. But now fame has become all so accessible and INSTANT. All thanks to this emergence of Reality TV. But what do you think… about Reality TV? Yeah! I have been thinking about this topic since a long time; have had several arguments sometimes with couple of friends and lot many times with myself trying to figure out what do people working on Reality TV trying to come up with? I have my firm viewpoint about it which title of my post would’ve explained. People claim it is anot...

Amongst the plethora of features that Gmail has, Buzz is the latest add-on. It has given gmail users a platform to share their views, links or any kind of information with the world. They can link their Picasa, Twitter and blogspot account with Buzz and speak their mind and heart over the web. All your updates in any of these sites that you link with your Buzz account, will automatically get reflected in Buzz. You needn’t post the same information on each site separately. Means, no more shuffling between various tabs—twitter, picasa, gmail—you get all in one window. Plus, you join Buzz and you instantly get access to 170 million plus gmail subscribers. Sounds cool! But this consolidation is not fool proof. Updates on the linked sites don’t get reflected instantly. There is no sorting order in which updates are shown on Buzz page. The one with the max comments or views gets displayed while the rest are hid in the background. There are other tiny-miny flaws as well which make us doubt Bu...