The Nutty Blogger

Note from Ajay- This is a movie plot idea, hence this is fully copyrighted with me and excluded from the normal copyright policy above.

Plot begins with a normal guy, okay job, introduced to blogging. Likes it, likes the online attention. Starts building up a base.He writes a tech blog that mostly focuses on bugs at tech companies, their discount policy ,their mutual relationship with academia. Heck he says , these guys are making money because of information assymmetry and lobbying for extending copyrights forever on software unlike limited period copyrights on say pharma drugs. The blog goes more popular, it gets more attention, the wrong attention. The Lonely Old man , now gone mad, spots a post which criticizes his beloved company. At 80, with children gone, that legacv is all he got. So what, he says, I earned money to give it back to my boys at the company.

He calls in the specialists, who start tracking the by now obsessed blogger. They move slowly gathering facts , then Boom !!! Blog Boy loses his job, because company feels its a recession, his wife gives up at this final straw, she did warn him on too much time wasted on blogging and leaves,

The Lonely young man, now gone angry spots a pattern. At 30, with his kids gone, the Blog Comp and the Blog Dog is all he got. So he slowly builds an online team of people he meets online, through voice, webcam, and single dating. He builds his team of bloggers.They move slowly gathering facts, then Boom !!

Random posts warn of bugs in software, rumours crop up of secret data gathering code imbedded, of privacy violations, using offshore labor which is cheap.

Old man , loses his patience, rashly goes to sue. In a passionate defence in climax, the Blog Boy admits all, and presents the facts, how the bog copr duped the little guys. he gets a suspended sentence, and the blond pro bono lawyer defending him . Old man hangs up his mouse to play golf. They all go home, and the audience feels better watching the movie in a tough economy.

Keeping them honest

A great example of a central bank using technology is Reserve Bank of India, whose banking ombudsman has an online form which is quite user friendly.

You can see the form here-

https://reservebank.org.in/BO/compltindex.htm

The form, which has very simple drop downs for segmenting, adequate linking to relevant policy for easy checklist of complaint.

So if your bank hid an extra line in the fine print , or deducted an extra emi as additional charges or just plain acted as in violation of Code of Conduct (there are 18 defined clauses), you can use this link to submit a complaint conveniently.

I Want My WebTV

So here it is.

Another Blog monetization method AND
adding great videos for free to your blog
AND not crashing your servers.
The content site is yourBusinessChannel.com.

They use distributed servers to counter the big Video Sites like You tube,this keeps server costs low, and content distribution high, nice idea for business video niche. The content is top class , with access to founders of lulu.com ,google’s strategy .It is more like a Internet Television Channel.

You are a blogger too eh, Sign up here pardner

 

A New “R” is born

Peter Dalgard just announced R .2.7.2 . Very professional software like very transparent release.

Quoted from R -Announce Email

“”This is intended as a wrap-up release containing all known fixes to issues with the 2.7.x series.
See the full list of changes below.

You can get it (in a short while) from

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.7.2.tar.gz

or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.

NEW FEATURES

o    sprintf() returns elements of the result in UTF-8 when the
format or any character input has a corresponding element
declared as UTF-8.  Similarly for paste(), elements of the
result are in UTF-8 when any input to that element is declared
as UTF-8.

o    axis() has new arguments ‘col.ticks’ and ‘lwd.ticks’ to allow
the colour and line width of ticks to be set separately from
that of the line (e.g. to set one or the other to transparent
or zero width).

o    legend() has a new argument ‘box.col’ to set the colour of the
enclosing box.

o    legend() gains a ‘xpd’ argument to make it easier to place a
legend in the margins or outer margins.

o    stripchart() now passes ‘…’ to title() (as well as to
plot.default() and axis()). (Wish of PR#12202)

o    help.search() has new argument ‘searchEngine’ to go
directly to the search form: this is needed by users of
Firefox 3 to workaround a bug in interpreting the search
results pages.

BUG FIXES
Continue reading “A New “R” is born”

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