Monthly Archives: July 2008

so much for being offline

So today I opened my laptop as usual with my cup of morning coffee – but today I was determined to shut off all social networking possibilities….
so I told my twitter friends – call me if you must contact me – am offline
I told my facebook friends – call me – am offline today…
and then [...]

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from Pankaj Sekhsaria’s blog

“Displacing tribals”

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Loss, structure, organizational memory and Modernity as Tradition

Thinking through … loss – what does it mean when someone dies…
loss of voice, loss of location , loss of work that might not otherwise happen…
which sorts of organizations suffer in what ways through the loss of a member to death or otherwise…
and if it is death – what are the unique implications?
thinking through [...]

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blogging about blogging, twittering about blogging, facebooking about blogging and now even emailing alerts to family members about possible surprises in a blog post….

okay – so the title of this post says it all:)

Now that "radha ki betiyaan" has become another excuse for me to
blog about my life… I suddenly have to send out email alerts to some
members of my family about something I blogged – in case that is the first t
time they would see or [...]

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ettiquette for blogging – re aoir discussion

link to aoir list archives – the discussion thread is titled “etiquette for reusing or reposting blog posts” – around the date of July 25th
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The contradiction regarding our expectations of use of online spaces continues to surprise me (and this includes my own expectations and unarticulated responses as a user/consumer too) …
We want [...]

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nostalgia for the rural?

who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …
“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the [...]

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infusing life into my blogging…

Thus far I have been fairly cautious about blogging (I know its a strange thing to say when I have like a million blogs and million pictures and videos and email exchanges all in googlable distance on the internet…) because privacy is a concern for me (laugh away… but where in my facebook, twitter or [...]

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back in good old Ohio

Now that I am back from hectic journeying with family for research and pleasure – I am slowly getting caught up on all my writing deadlines.

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Time for the PHC ’s SOB…!

South of the Border @ Perrysburg Heights

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