Going Open Source

With the popularity of Twitter and ’status update’ messages on email/social sites, people are definitely not lacking ways to stay updated on each other’s lives. However, what may be lacking is quality conversations and info-exchanges between friends online. For example, Twitter limits your “thoughts” to 140 characters and Facebook’s “wall” caps you out at 1,000 [...]

:/

It suddenly dawned upon me that I haven’t written on this thing for almost an entire month. In fact, I barely THOUGHT about it due to various elements. Sadly, when life is busy and every minute of extra sleep becomes GOLD, there’s not much time for additional activities such as blogging.
Having a blog is like [...]

Mind-Tracking

I’ve always had this fantasy that someone, or something, would keep tabs on the thoughts that run through my head because:
1) there are so many it’s hard to keep track and
2) it’s difficult to remember the context and content in which they occurred.
Strangely, I believe my fantasy is slowly coming true as my life gets [...]

A Physical Manifestation of Discomfort

Went to a bday party for a friend last night, in which an acquaintance also attended. Not to dish on the guy, but he is one socially awkward fellow. As I sat there observing him (discreetly of course), it suddenly occurred to me that he is actually quite an amazing individual. Usually, discomfort is an [...]

Fickle, Fickle

I am a firm believer that our present culture breeds fickleness (this thought is spurred by the observation that my friends are becoming more and more flakey. . . ) Technology probably plays a big role in this phenomenon because it gives people an option to cancel last minute, or find out about something better [...]

Can We Use A Better Term Please?

Slowly but surely, advertising is focusing less on pushing brands and more on creating communication with the consumer. But the fact that ‘consumer’ is still used as the predominant term in describing “people brands want to communicate with” really bothers me. It’s such a de-personalizing word! These ‘consumers’ are consisted of human beings just like [...]

Hooray for Manifestos

One of my favorite publications, Icon, recently released its 50th issue that focused on the concept of manifestos–stating that the age of grandiose ideologies is over. Relativism and apathy reign instead. The magazine goes on to ask 50 influential architects, designers and thinkers to share their thoughts in the form of manifestos.
I read through [...]