You have got mobile phones. You call, you text,you capture stills and videos. Well ,by now you know that it is easy using these features

Technology has reached to everyone one or other way. But can it transform lives? Bring out positive changes in our society?

Well, let us read something on community media .
Can’t a camera enabled mobile phone be used for capturing a story that matters to you and to your community ? May it be a village feast or a football match – news …

Education and Knowledge are public properties and they should really be shared.
Looking for World Class Education ?Thinking about world’s best universities like MIT, Johns Hopkins  Berkeley,Stanford,Princeton etc ?
Well,It is right at your fingertips!!!
Curious ?
Welcome to Open Educational Resources!.Learn here  basic English Grammar to Rocket Sciences
There are hundred of universities and prominent academic institutions around the world that have freely made  available large part of their educational content in the web .
And the  content include:Full courses and course materials,Textbooks ,Audio lectures,Video lectures,Sounds and music ,Images,Collections of journal articles and …

Chain letters flood my inbox.Not bad,I also used to forward each and everyone of them to my friends.Well ,some nice guy/girl out there wrote down a reflection on the chain mails he/she gets.That also landed in my inbox as a chain mail.Seems worth enough for a blog post.
Here it goes:
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I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and continuing it in 2009 .
Because of your kindness:
* I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found …

Some time back when I opened my facebook account,I just  took it as another site where I can see my friends’ contacts in a row and wonder how  this guy knows all these people that I don’t!   Well, that is still there.But what now interest me most about facebook like sites is that  the way people use it for getting their message across

Yes, I am speaking about lobbying and campaigning.
Gone are the days where we had to write all those postcards to get participants for an …

My plan was to catch public transport back home. I was about to ask an auto rickshaw to take me to the KSRTC Bus Stand , exactly then I spotted a truck approaching. Standing into the national highway, throwing my both hands up, I asked for a lift. It stopped around a 40 meters ahead of me.
Not bad!
I got in expecting to meet two-three people in the cabin.But only the driver was there.
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He was Mr. Rasheed. Driving alone form Trivandrum to Calicut. I cut into his loneliness from Alleppy.
The cabin …

Internet helped to bring forth new breed in Media called as Independent Media. These are initiatives made incorporating technology into enlightened media practices.
Independent media initiatives usually run their websites/portals. The public is increasingly using such websites/portals to tell their stories. The option of interactivity found in them helps people to draw multiple and conflicting points of view in each topic. Collaborative news production model are become a norm here. It makes users getting involved in news gathering process. It is potentially a radical shift from who is in control of …

Chandra Seskharan Nair is a farmer in Thiruvananthapuram District. A farmer of goodwill and hard work!. But now, what makes him extra ordinary is not his agricultural skill alone. Known as Kerala Farmer, Chandra Sekharan Nair is a popular blogger in the Malayalam . Thanks to the emergence of new media.
Chandra Sekharan Nair writes in his blog agricultural news, health and wellness, and even technology. Wide coverage on rubber cultivation marks it speciality. Like him, many bloggers are out here in Kerala.
New media is shaping up here. The increasing popularity …

Every diamond has a story to tell. A bloody story!!
When I wanted to watch the film ‘Blood Diamond’ for the first time , it was for the only reason that I liked Leonard Decaprio, the lead star in the film. The film struck me some where…The struggle, the lust , the realities around it !. There I thought of reading something more on the so called diamond industry.
Time immemorial Humans fought for Gold and Wealth. Wars were fought, civilisations were burned.People were generally greedy- Gold,women,diamonds. An explicit thirst for accumulating …