The Black Keys: Act Nice And Gentle

(Via Fred Wilson)

Ace Reporter: We Used To Wait: Arcade Fire Cover

(Via Kirk Love)

Song Manu Dibango: Soul Makossa

(Via Whitney McNamara)

Lost A Whole Bunch Of Blog Posts

Nope, it was way more than one.

And Blogger Is Back

The Mad Dash To Ubiquity
Two Models Better Than Five
Someone From Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Now Follows Me On Tumblr
Two Deaths: Coincidence

I just did a Google search on "paramendra the mad dash to ubiquity" hoping maybe the lost posts have been saved by Google in cache form. And all my other posts that were also lost showed up in the search results. This reminds me of the "balloon people" rant by Al Pacino in the movie Heat.

And now YouTube is down. What up, Google? Et tu? Google found out I was about to embed that clip from Heat.

And Blogger Is Back

Blooger was down yesterday. It has been down today. But looks like it is back now. Oh Blogger, I have so missed you.

Looks like I lost one blog post. That I remember. And, no, it is not in the draft section. It is simply gone. Poof. Let me see if I can rewrite it from memory. I still have the idea of it. It was called The Mad Dash To Ubiquity.

Someone From Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Now Following Me On Tumblr

Image via CrunchBaseMy Twitter account went out of hand a long time ago. I have about 45,000 followers and I follow almost all of them back. I decided a long time ago I was going to use Twitter as a broadcast network. It is my own little TV station, my own little radio station. No expectations of intimacy there.

Facebook is a little less of a broadcast network for me but even there my response to over 200 pending friend requests from people I don't know was to put the privacy setting to "Everyone." There I have high school friends and college friends and people I have met in person, and a few I have never met except online, and that's okay. But the number one feature at my Facebook account is I have uploaded more than 10,000 pictures of New York City. My high school and college circles are far from the city I live in, and I wanted people to have a feel for the city I live in. My blogs feed into my Facebook stream. So it is a little bit of a broadcast network too, but not like Twitter where you don't only see my blog posts, but also articles I might read out and about.

Two Deaths: Coincidence

Two of my favorite bloggers Amitabh Bachchan and Fred Wilson are both today talking about the passing away of friends. Curious coincidence.

Two Models Better Than Five

The Mad Dash To Ubiquity

Image via WikipediaWe want to capture every gesture of everybody, we want to capture every flickr of every thought in every mind. What's up with us? That mad dash to ubiquity is very appealing to me for its democratic promise. Every person counts.

When I was working towards my IC - the Internet Computer - vision a few years back, I did not realize how fast the goal would be reached, largely without me. I mean, we are not there yet. But the pace is rather fast. The mobile phone penetration globally is amazing.

When a poet looks at a leaf, she looks at it afresh. And so it is not like when you look at something a second time, you see the same thing.

Angry Birds Now On Chrome

Angry Birds is now on Chrome, like I had all the time in the world. But then I do make time for Farmville on Facebook, don't I?

Angry Birds, Angry, Angry Birds
Farmville's Got Competition

Chromebook: June 15

Google Chrome: Dear Sophie
My Chrome Notebook Never Arrived
Chrome Notebook Pilot User?

Two Terms Please

Obama 2012 Is On
Social Media And StartUps: Striking The Right Balance

Huge Wind Turbine

"You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice!"