cutting down reading …

I am enforcing some discipline in myself – as my health needs it. I cannot afford to have behaviour that encourages short attention and I am anyway slightly bored with the happenings of the blogosphere.

Off late – I have bee noticing I am writing more and reading less. As of today my number of feed I read have been cut down to 40. I have made a resolution to keep the number below 42 – the answer to Life, Universe and Everything

Will give a list soon – but the broad categories are: Mobility, Cool, Monitor, News, Other, People, Private and Tech.

Leaving you with links for the day:

• kathy on ‘Mosh Pit as Innovation model‘
• ProBlogger on ‘A-Z of Blogging‘
• CSS Galleries http://css-galleries.com/

I just love this graphic from kathy’s site:

successful innovation!

I read the 'heurestic framework' pdf lately from Ideaflow and thought will share the read. Basically thedocument can be summarised in these two pictures. First the basic frame work – they do mention the order of Qs can be changed and the final quotes with frogs in it

Remember its all about 'successful' innovation not just innovation. Its all about what or why a certain product or event happens in the chain of events between two 'S' curves in innovation!! {If you don't understand what I am saying … I shall post about it someday}.

Remember TRIZ is also good method. But TRIZ personally according to me is not making about making innovation a equation. This is more of a management level framework. And Innovation is about good mix of art, technology and process.

So, here is the framework:

• Does it fit the Organisation?
  • Yes – Possibly – No
• Does it provide strategic advantage?
  • Yes – Possibly – No
• Is there a demand for it?
  • Yes – Possibly – No
• How might we pursue it?
  • Build Internally – Collaborate – Acquire
• Is there a clear definition of success?
  • Yes – Possibly – No
• Will management support it?
  • Yes – Possibly – No

And the quote from Linus Pauling:

You have to kiss a lof of frogs … before you find your prince.
And you've to create a lot of ideas before you find a great one.

And the picture is also take from the report!

My Blogroll

Well, I am going to changing my blogroll pretty drastically – interests have changed I dunno know for the good or bad … But I am not reading this any more thought I will put a post with my blogroll. So, here it is – its within a ‘Bitty Browser’

bitty Browser didn’t work within wordpress Tried going a source copy and ran out of patience)
News

CNET News.com

http://news.com.com/

ZDNet Blogs

http://blogs.zdnet.com

MocoNews.net

http://www.moconews.net

NYT > Technology

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html?partner=rssnyt

Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com

Techdirt

http://www.techdirt.com/

AlooTechie

http://www.alootechie.com

ContentSutra

http://www.contentsutra.com

paidContent.org

http://www.paidcontent.org/

Software

Om Malik on Broadband

http://gigaom.com

Emergic

http://www.emergic.org/

TechCrunch

http://www.techcrunch.com

Scripting News

http://www.scripting.com/

Micro Persuasion

http://www.micropersuasion.com/

Seth’s Blog

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

eHub

http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/

PaulStamatiou.com

http://www.paulstamatiou.com

Software Only

http://blog.softtechvc.com/

Blog Relations

http://www.blog-relations.com

CyberJournalist.net

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/

Digital Tech News

http://www.digitaltechnews.com/news/

Signal vs. Noise

http://37signals.com/svn/

Fractals of Change

http://blog.tomevslin.com/

Functioning Form: Interface Design

http://www.lukew.com/ff/

Internet Outsider

http://www.internetoutsider.com/

loose wire

http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/

Marshall Kirkpatrick

http://marshallk.com

O’Reilly Digital Media Center

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/

I, Cringely @ PBS.org

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/

CrunchNotes

http://crunchnotes.com

Wired News

http://www.wired.com/

O’Reilly Emerging Telephony

http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/

O’Reilly Radar

http://radar.oreilly.com/

Official Google Blog

http://googleblog.blogspot.com

On The Verge

http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015.html?nid=2554

Phil’s Blogservations

http://www.philgomes.com/blog/

Podiobooker

http://www.podiobooks.com/blog

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog

http://www.roughtype.com/

The RSS and Marketing Diary

http://www.marketingstudies.net/

SimpleBits

http://www.simplebits.com/

weblogs.oreilly.com

Google Press Releases

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/

You’re It!

http://tagsonomy.com

Communities Dominate Brands

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/

Web 2.0 Blog

http://web2.wsj2.com/

Joel on Software

http://www.joelonsoftware.com

Committee to Protect Bloggers

http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/blog

moblogher

http://moblogher.typepad.com/mojo/

Venture Voice

http://www.venturevoice.com/

Clickable Culture

http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/

Elatable | Bradley Horowitz

http://www.elatable.com/blog

Mobile

Authentic Boredom

http://www.cameronmoll.com/

C. Enrique Ortiz’ Mobility W e b l o g

http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog

gotomobile

http://www.gotomobile.com

Smart Mobs

http://www.smartmobs.com/

Mobile Pundit

http://www.mobilepundit.com

Hinkmond Wong’s Weblog

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/hinkmond

textually.org

http://www.textually.org/

Mobile Analyst Watch

http://mobileanalystwatch.blogspot.com

i see people

http://icppl.typepad.com/i_see_people/

J2ME Brings Joy to Me

http://jroller.com/page/j2me

Kern Computing

http://kerncomputing.blogspot.com

Lifeblog

http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog/

M:Blog

http://www.mmetrics.com/blog/

M:Metrics, Inc.

http://mmetrics.com/

MobHappy

http://mobhappy.typepad.com/russell_buckleys_mobhappy/

Mobile Development News

http://www.mamlambo.com/mdn/

mopocket

http://www.mopocket.com/

Mobile Enterprise Weblog

http://mobileenterprise.typepad.com/weblog/

Mobile Slate

http://www.mobileslate.com

The Mobile Technology Weblog

http://www.mobile-weblog.com/

Phone Scoop – Latest News

http://www.phonescoop.com/

Shane Isbell’s Weblog

http://jroller.com/page/random7

small devices in my dandelion patch

http://jroller.com/page/kalimantan

Tangent Mobile: Mobile Media, Entertainment & Mesaging

http://www.tangentmobile.com

Things That Make You Go Wireless

http://businessblog.sprint.com/1/1/

Windows Mobile PC Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilepc/default.aspx

Xyling Java Blog

http://javablogs.xyling.com

Mobile Design

http://mobiledesign.org/

mobile jones

Tom Hume

http://www.tomhume.org/

Ecademy: user blogs

http://wireless.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=blog

Mobile Opportunity

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com

Little Springs Design

http://www.littlespringsdesign.com

picturephoning.com

http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/

open bitty-size | full-size

ringtonia.com

http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/

Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless

http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com

Xellular Identity by Xen Mendelsohn (Dolev)

http://xendolev.typepad.com/xellular/

TheSMSGuide Blog

http://www.thesmsguide.com/blog

Indian

Metroblogging Mumbai

http://mumbai.metblogs.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Conversations with Dina

http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/

open bitty-size | full-size

amit ranjan

http://www.amitranjan.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Muthu Online >

http://muthuonline.com

open bitty-size | full-size

New Delhi Times – Gaurav Bhatnagar reporting from New Delhi, Ind

http://WWW.NEWDELHITIMES.ORG/

open bitty-size | full-size

Atanu Dey on India’s Development

http://www.deeshaa.org

open bitty-size | full-size

mypajama.com

http://www.mypajama.com/blog

open bitty-size | full-size

Metroblogging Chennai

http://chennai.metblogs.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Adel Anwar

http://blog.adelanwar.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Rajan’s Rambling

http://rajan.wordpress.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Spanish In India

http://www.math.tifr.res.in/blog

open bitty-size | full-size

Venture Explorer

http://ventureexplorer.typepad.com/ventureexplorer/

open bitty-size | full-size

VentureWoods

http://www.venturewoods.org

open bitty-size | full-size

Chocolate and Gold Coins

http://chocolateandgoldcoins.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Shrikant’s Blog

http://shrikant.emergic.org

open bitty-size | full-size

Musings of a runner

http://barkbadmar.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

enventure

http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/index.html

open bitty-size | full-size

Selective Amnesia

http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/

open bitty-size | full-size

Whispers of Probing Mind!

http://spaces.msn.com/members/rdewangan/

open bitty-size | full-size

104E

http://gunkglumb.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

The Voice In My Head…

http://www.thevoiceinmyhead.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Lambi Pooch

http://lambipooch.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

:: Technological Musings ::

http://blog.leadstep.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Living on the Edge

http://rajan.wordpress.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Rashmi’s Blog

http://www.rashmisinha.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Kiruba.com

http://www.kiruba.com

open bitty-size | full-size

FW-Design

Creating Passionate Users

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/

open bitty-size | full-size

Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Lifehacker

http://www.lifehacker.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

core77.com’s design blog

http://www.core77.com/blog/

open bitty-size | full-size

Usability In The News

http://www.usernomics.com/news/user-interface-design-news.html

open bitty-size | full-size

Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

http://www.popgadget.net

open bitty-size | full-size

PVRblog

http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/

open bitty-size | full-size

cre8d design blog

http://cre8d-design.com/blog

open bitty-size | full-size

information aesthetics

http://infosthetics.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE

http://xplane.com/xblog//index.php

open bitty-size | full-size

gapingvoid

http://www.gapingvoid.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

kottke.org

http://www.kottke.org/

open bitty-size | full-size

Visual Thinking Art

http://visualthinkingart.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Product Placement Photo Pool

http://www.flickr.com/groups/productplacement/pool/

open bitty-size | full-size

Modules and Wholes

http://michaelandrews.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

A List Apart

http://www.alistapart.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

About Web Design/HTML

http://webdesign.about.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Anonymous Usability Designer

http://juicability.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Boxes and Arrows

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Cool Tools

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/

open bitty-size | full-size

Dave Shea’s mezzoblue

http://www.mezzoblue.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Digital Web Magazine – What’s New

http://www.digital-web.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

IdeaFlow

http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/

open bitty-size | full-size

Josh Spear

http://www.joshspear.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Stopdesign

http://www.stopdesign.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Caffeine Junkies

http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

Idea Sandbox Blog

http://www.idea-sandbox.com/blog/

open bitty-size | full-size

FlickrNation

http://flickrnation.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Bsphere

A thing of beauty is a joy forever – John Keats

http://radham228.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Epeus’ epigone

http://epeus.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

My Picture Perfect Diary

http://efatima.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

ProBlogger Blog Tips

http://www.problogger.net

open bitty-size | full-size

All over the map

http://www.blog.ca/main/index.php/alloverthemap

open bitty-size | full-size

apophenia

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

open bitty-size | full-size

cheesebikini?

http://www.cheesebikini.com/

open bitty-size | full-size

geobloggers

http://geobloggers.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Harshad Sharma

http://data.freeshell.org/

open bitty-size | full-size

ICT for Health (Education)

http://zalguur.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Life Outtacontext

http://outtacontext.com/life/

open bitty-size | full-size

maisnon

http://maisnon.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Nancy’s Blog

http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/MT/vanhouse/

open bitty-size | full-size

Passing Thoughts

http://o3.indiatimes.com/srinivas/

open bitty-size | full-size

slower.net log

http://www.slower.net/slowerlog/

open bitty-size | full-size

thoughts on banking

http://kssmani.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Trivial Matters

http://trivialmatters.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Vislumbres

http://vsequeira.blogspot.com

open bitty-size | full-size

Waves

http://aswinanand.blogspot.com

Within / Without

http://nehasri.blogspot.com

Berkeley Innovation

http://binnovation.blogspot.com

crashing_xombie

Mobile Learning

http://bestmob.blogspot.com

My Idea Repository

http://idearepository.blogspot.com

My Musings

http://woodstock4u.blogspot.com

my scribble pad

http://sukumar.blogspot.com

palojono

http://palojono.blogspot.com

The Quality of Information

http://infoqual.blogspot.com

Turmeric Diaries

http://turmericdiaries.blogspot.com

The Last Whimper

http://jhcloud8.blogspot.com

Light Is Life

http://writeswithlight.blogspot.com

Life and times

http://michellemillay.blogspot.com

interests

MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

http://www.macrumors.com

gladwell.com

http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/

wikispaces.com : mytoday – all changes

http://mytoday.wikispaces.com/space/xml

wikispaces.com : srwsalumni – all changes

http://srwsalumni.wikispaces.com/space/xml

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

http://www.tuaw.com

Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog

The Indian Economy Blog

http://indianeconomy.org

PSD Blog – The World Bank Group – Private Sector Development

http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/

del.icio.us/scobleizer

http://del.icio.us/scobleizer

Vinu’s Online Cloud

http://vinu.wordpress.com

birdDog digitalBlog

http://www.birdDogdigital.com/blog/

Les Posen’s CyberPsych Blog

http://homepage.mac.com/lesposen/blogwavestudio

SRWS Alumni Log

http://srwsalumni.wordpress.com

Biz

A VC

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/

Signum sine tinnitu–by Guy Kawasaki

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/

Genuine VC

http://www.genuinevc.com/

Small Business Trends

http://www.smallbiztrends.com

VentureBlog

http://www.ventureblog.com/

Entrepreneurs’ Viewpoint

http://blog.kauffman.org/index.php/entrepreneur_viewpoint/index

Knowledge@Wharton

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/

Lunch over IP

http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/

deal architect

http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/

What’s Your Brand Mantra?

http://brand.blogs.com/mantra/

Decker Marketing

http://decker.typepad.com/welcome/

The Startup News

http://startups.infogami.com/

Bnoopy

http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/

Nivi

http://www.nivi.com/blog

College Startup

http://www.college-startup.com

BizzBangBuzz by Pittsburgh technology attorney business lawyer m

http://bizzbangbuzz.blogspot.com

Paul Graham: Essays

http://www.paulgraham.com/

Business Opportunities Weblog

http://www.business-opportunities.biz

Just For Small Business

http://www.allbusiness.com/blog/JustForSmallBusiness/3357/

Escape Velocity

http://blog.metastreams.com/

WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs

http://www.workhappy.net/

beyond bullets

http://www.beyondbullets.com/

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/toplevel/

My Latest AlwaysOn Post

http://www.alwayson-network.com

Zoli’s Blog

http://www.zoliblog.com/blog

Rajesh – thoughts on blogging

Rajesh Jain (My Boss) just blogged on Blogging and himself. I thought it would be a nice reading for all of you. He blogs at www.emergic.org

I met him through his blog and also got interviewed and got a job in his company through his blog!! (There you go about benefits about blogs)

Four Blog Years: The Beginning [May 15, 2006]
How I Blog [May 16, 2006]
MyToday [May 17, 2006]
Thinking Evolution [May 18, 2006]

blogger meet wrap up …

I reached Barista around 4:15pm. Looked for some know faces … I had been to a blogger meet in January earlier. Was going to approach the counter asking the folks at Barista about this when at one corner – I saw a face I recognized …

I raised my hand and he acknowledged. I approached him and said … "err does your name start with a 'V'?!" " No, but I am Saketh" he said. Then it sruck me and I said "Oh you write a blog called vulture something right?" … Saketh replied "hmm .. Vulturo (check out his blog, i just did its kewl)". He continued talking about himself. Then I asked him how often do bloggers in bombay meet. He said it used to be often last year – but the people who used to be enthu about it have fizzled about but they all somehow still manage to meet everymonth.

Then Yaz from Yazadjal.com came in and Saketh knew him and then there was a crowd. There were also a bunch of bloggers sitting at the other corner and our main aim was to grab some benches and chairs … and soon we all settled in and more people joined in. We all had a quick introduction and I live video – blogged it using my phone.

Amit from IndiaUncut pointed out I was supposed to ask permission before doing that … well I told them that I am well within my rights and I know it as a photographer! well, as a group they thought Amit was right and I didn't bother arguing and asked for permission before taking pics again. {but I know this … as a law its completely okay to take a picture of what you see through your eyes without straining it i.e use telephoto lens etc!} Here is the video of the round of introductions

Then the focus shift to Nitin Pai from 'The Acorn' while the blog-call was being taken.
The noise at Barista and the lack of space made it difficult to clearly hear and participate in the discussion easily. The blog-call was as follows:

The conversation started out on whether economic development and peace are related or can be dealt independently. Soon transitioned into Indo-Pak relations. Analogies being drawn on how china dealth things in the late 80s. Nitin's basis was tackle the terrorists as india is doing now and Liberalize and once we have enough economic clout the borders will sort out themselves.

A brief video:

Nitin believes what the Pakistan society thinks of India in not important as the state overrules controls the psyche of the society. Amit, Ravikaran and I were against it. I have met lots of Pakistanis and believe me there is lot of mutual respect and friendly outlook.

Anyway, at this juncture in my life I am slightly out of Politics as I feel if people look into their hearts and think even slightly sensibly all the issues can be settled. Violence is a measure for the people who are impatient or are afraid. And 'Vengeance is a lazy form of gried' (comment from a movie – the interpreter?)

There was also lot of 'literary' talk which I couldn't relate to. I did feel slightly out of place as the obvious had their community feeling having interacted for quite sometime online world. i was not really following their blogs.

People then whipped out their cameras and clicked here and there:

I saw Amit had a Rebel XT – the camera I also own. I was slightly disappointed this month on myself when I broke the lens Mistake on my part that I dropped it. The lens is good that its electronics is not functioning properly. Suman dropped in as I left (had some other appointment at 6pm. Asked her where she blogs. She said – I just blog about 'myself'! I replied even I do 40% myself! She replied " just google suman kamath" and unfortunately I can't find it! (in the top 10 links meaning)

Managed to grab a mango milkshake during that time and get to know Ravikaran well. Will definitely be adding them to my blogrolls. Its simply a great feeling when the online clouds (internet) and the grounded coffee (real life) merger. Aroma is just blissful!!

Other people who summarised yesterday's meet: (will add later)

1. ShriRam Karra
2. Amit-Verma

Amit mailed me pointing out that I have to take permission for all the snaps and videos I take and mentioned that if I removed them from the post he will link me. I did come back and remove his photo. I still see he has linked me. Anyway, what are you thoughts folks on this? I feel you are free to blo, take a photo and video of what all you see! …

simplicity

Charles Mingus:

Making the simple comlicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

I agree to this to a great extent! Especially when you have to design, teach, selling something. I try to applyt this in my life too! (don’t we all want to make our life simple?)
Got this quote from ‘Dina‘ – I like her blog a lot! The things she writes about are on the similar lines that I think {lovely person too!}

Mobiles and usability!!

Just read a great review by Harshad of his new Samsung SGH C210. My company has also given me a samsung cellphone too (I was previously using a cool LG one) will drop in a line on my experiences once I start using it for a month or so … BUT I would like to highlight the final paragraph by Harshad:

“So I’ll try to learn the foolish ways of this foolish phone… maybe even get my fingers damaged in the daily excercise for sending messages and making calls. Till I save up for a better device… I will have to deal with a bad bad bad choice. This is perhaps the worst user interface I have ever seen. Even UNIX is better – it allows fairly intelligent people to change things as they want – here I am supposed to be just as stupid as any other Joe user. *sigh*”

ALL usability and Mobile manufacturers read the above sentences again and keep re-reading it! There is so much to learn in this paragraph. Harshad has done a great job of simplifying the trouble and problems with the current cell phones! Both industrial design and the software design.

I shall be sharing the blogroll for mobiles soon but gotomobile – a mobile usability and user experience blog is doing a decent job at looking into this space!
Coming back to his comment, he is a geek and feels the need of more control and ability to program stuff. And I don’t think the companies should pay heed to that. But what you have to understand is even a non-geek feels the need of non-customizing at some level!

And yeah, all the cribs are on the software front. Hardware he is ready to put up with and common how difficult is it to have multiple builds?? how the same hardware!

Another thing lacking in the mobile handset industry is STANDARDS!!! The list is endless – power chords, usb chords, buttons, talk button, end button .. god damn it I agree you need more IQ to operate these phones than operate windows But guess what even illiterates manage to do that. So, designers – go understand the common man – they have lot to say.

Finally, this is a picture of my old cell phone in the US, LG-PM 325 with google Local running on it. I was very happy and satisfied with it! I just couldn’t get it working in India as its CDMA i.e Sprint contract. Neither Reliance nor Tata indicom were ready to help me out on that!!