Last week I was in a village in the rural hinterlands of West Bengal in India on a field research. I observed that they use a certain interesting method to share the local community information. It is done in a way that uses 'Public Information Landmarks' to distribute and disseminate knowledge. Every village [...]

 
In a very interesting twist, the recent wave of popularity of the ‘Twitter’ is somewhat on the wane. Part of the reason is that, much though it claimed to be a ‘Spot Yourself’ application, it never gave any geographical cue. If you looked at ‘Twitter’ App site, it just looks like a series of tweets [...]

Today ‘Social Networks’ are a way of life. We see it in every possible web based service or application that we use. Sometimes we even wonder if all these ’sociability’ actually serve their purpose in our respective information environments. So is ‘Social Networking’ only a business model for advertising revenue? There is more [...]