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Time has come to change how we read 3 Jul 2013 | 02:58 am
Google Reader is dead. Long live reading. If you are from the real world and happened upon posts from any-and-every tech blog, you wouldn’t be mistaken in assuming that today marks the demise of the ...
Quora’s Big Problem 21 May 2013 | 01:55 pm
I haven’t been on Quora in a long time. I used to be there every single day, so much that many Quora users’ feed was filled just with stuff I curated. But that was months ago. Slowly but surely as Liz...
BREAKING: Can we put Journalism back together again? 22 Apr 2013 | 01:38 pm
This is an attempt at deciphering the happenings of the past week in Boston and the way we follow news today. What are some of the learnings from the past days and what must we avoid. And most importa...
Give me that reason. A reason to write. 1 Feb 2013 | 12:07 pm
I am 35 years old. Today. Feels odd, since I haven’t shared that on Facebook and here I am for the first time sharing this with all you guys – my readers. But this post is about you and me. And, Justi...
Writing slow-motion 26 Jan 2013 | 07:34 am
Check out this instructive video on how you can slow down time in your stories? Some of you may have done it without realizing it was possible; at least the good writers among you. But it’s as simple ...
Handling a personal crisis like Letterman 26 Jan 2013 | 07:25 am
We’ve seen this before. An executive’s fall from grace over a workplace dalliance. The world loves stories like this and the media just can’t have enough of it. The tech world, which is usually insu...
Write like the President’s Speechwriter 25 Jan 2013 | 07:48 am
Remember, President Obama’s triumphant “Yes, We Can” speech, or the hopeful New Hampshire concession speech or most recently the comforting Newton tragedy speech… Words matter and a President’s words ...
Is Mark’s Graph Search a Giant Killer? 20 Jan 2013 | 10:37 am
Will Facebook’s “Graph Search” be a threat to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp, or Foursquare asks a question on Quora? No, No, No and Definitely Not. Yet. The key is expertise. Beneath the obvious user delight...
Bad Communication, according to Larry Page 19 Jan 2013 | 01:27 pm
I’ve written about great communicators like Steve Jobs, I’ve called out lame attempts by Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos who tried copying the master and failed, and I now gotta write about bad communi...
Why I blog and why you should too 18 Jan 2013 | 12:47 pm
The toughest part of blogging is keeping up the urge to blog seven days a week. This post, inspired by Orwell, started out as my quest to find out why I blog, but it kinda evolved into an outline on...
