Attending the New Media Congress in Delhi

This is the first time a New Media Event of this scale is being organised in India. Looking forward to meeting the Gurus. Details here.

Would the Mumbai Police please take note...

It was heartening to read about a judgement given by the New jersey Supreme court in USA where the court ruled that the IP address should be considered Personal Information of the Internet user similar to his bank account details or his telephone details. the Court further ruled that "Internet service providers can't disclose a subscriber's IP address to the police without a grand jury subpoena". Read the full story here.

This is a good precedence being set by a court in USA, which should be taken into account by the law-makers in India.

And the web is changing....

So says Tim Berners-Lee. And when he says so we better listen as he surely would know what he is talking about being the inventor of the World Wide Web. He talks about the development of a semantic web where data networks intelligently to provide unheard of solutions. The question I have is that with all kinds of personal data in public domain, how would we monitor the collation and reorganisation of our on personal data by some unwanted element. We may be looking at a very high security risk scenario which needs to be seriously contemplated upon before any such tecnology is unveiled in the public domain.

Hoping for a New Media Marketing Conference in India

Was just reading a post about the Second Annual New Media Marketing Conference being organised by IQPC in South Africa. Events like these are the need of the hour as this would spearhead the fledgling domain towards attaining greater visibility and a bigger share of the promotion pie.


Alas, apart from lot of talk, nothing much is being done by anyone in India in this sphere. I am still to come across news of a decent New Media conference organised in India. I like the suggestion given by Mike Stopforth and would further like to add media students to the list of concessional attendees.