As the pathless penguins picturised above, where is our faith on our astonishing planet heading to? Are we already taking steps to change this planet? Maintaining our planet's health practically. Its not only the researchers, authorities or enthusiasts capabilities and responsibilities to keep this earth green and safe. What about normal people like us? What are the possible things that ordinary people could do? Based on what has been happening for the past months,

• Stop partying on Earth Day/ Earth Hour and start taking some immediate actions rather than having a pool party?
• Turning off taps is the least we could do. Switching off lights is the least we could do. But often we fail to.
• What about investing in nature? Plant more trees/plants around you. Create a greener atmosphere.
• Blog about your ideas, technologies that you know could make the planet healthier, household tips, energy saving ideas,....
• Change the papers on your printer's tray to recycled papers.
• Most of all, sort your garbage to the appropriate bins/bags. Do not mix your food waste with recyclable materials. Separate them.

What are your green tips, tech and trends? It would be really wonderful, if you my fellow readers would join along me, to discover the possibilities in preventing this planet from significant disasters. I feel its really important for us to have such post in-between to keep our selves awake from the destructions we are making and solutions that is needed to aid our planet's health. Image credit to muffinman71xx

Bitching! You may get the limelight to some extent. I've seen it worked to some extent but here's the catch. If you do it right, you get known but if you fail to, you are going to bombarded. Bitching may be done two ways. Either constructive or destructive.

If you are like me, either one of them can't be as important as both is, as I tend to mix both all the time. Well, bitching constructively, would simply mean, by bringing conversations back to your content about other peoples blog post, tweets, videos, and any other form of communication while giving your positive views on it. At the same time, participating in their community by interacting with the original content provider himself and with his/hers community.

For those who don't get this community thing, I just meant the comments/reply sections. And, when I mean positive, its all about interacting and gaining trust, hope, and credibility with the creator and his community. On the other hand, destructive bitching also aims to gain trust, hope & credibility but in a more tensed manner. Forget about the @$@%^! kind of comments, that are by pure jerks but what I'm trying to get attention is the proper way of bitching in a destructive manner while making sure it's a win-win situation for both.

If you feel something is just not right, bring back the conversations and restate them. Go back to the original content provider & his/hers community and do provide tensed feedback but avoid being aggressive. People always fail in this part as they try to prove them selfs right and the creator is wrong while ending up in a very aggressive manner. You see the key here is to maintain positive relationships.

Therefore you have to know how not to sound like an angry shark but more of a snake. I think I'm getting a bit too subjective on my descriptions here. Sorry for that, I'm just trying to get my point out. Experiment your methods. You never what works! The main focus here, is to get into the conversation. It's not stalking. Anything is known as stalking only if you invade ones personal space in a timeline. Never the less, make sure you don't sound like a jerk by doing either.

Is it that difficult to love what you do, being different at the same time while making a stand in public? Walking down my experiences over this few months, it saddens me to see people who believed to be professionals are just not doing things right I suppose. Everyone seems to be happy with what they know and do not even initiate creative thoughts on anything they do. Right from technological innovation to agriculture, if there was no one person who thought differently and took a stand for his or hers idea, where would we be today? Could we have been developed as how we are today?

Questions as such ignites you for a second to sit back and think of what have man contributed to civilization, ethics & cultures. When we work or have a passion in an interest/hobby, we tend to do just what we know for a very long time. How many of us have actually contributed extra in the sense of creativeness in our daily jobs? Most people I have seen are clearly clueless on diversifying themselves as they have become very inclined towards a particular field they are related to. Sadly, even the creative fields are just the same. Is it due to a regional mass culture influence? I'm pretty clueless if people were to point me at such a view.

How difficult is it for someone to think out of the box? How difficult is it for someone to go all out on researching/participating on online media for resources or even the nearest library? All for the purpose of providing extra-ordinary service and products. Do cultures play a part in the way most people think? Is it why, many people have a perception that only the west have such capabilities because of their very self-centered/individualistic thoughts? No. Not at all. Those are the regions where even Romeo & Juliet originated as how we have Mumtaj & Shahjahan in the east. Love and care for others do exist in everyone precisely. They are not as self centered as how some of us are here in the name of collectivity.

We are all humans. It is how we get used to a common mindset. Everyone has his or hers own rights and feelings. We can be as diversified as how they do if only we want. The days are gone where you have a single profession. An interest of yours today is as good as your profession if a little perfection were to be imposed. Some may argue in sense of time and schedules. That is not even an excused to be heard. It is how we plan our self. Is it how we perceive ourselves. It is how we shape the right attitude. Its gone the days where we have the separation between the worker and the thinker. It order to succeed in your diversified passions, you need to be a combination of both. Always think out of the box. Don't be too  comfortable with what we know today.

Keep learning. Keep expanding. Aim to perfection. Imagine and work the impossibles. Your limelight, is on it's way. Do not stop no matter who says what. Be focused and rock on.

You may complain as much as you want. You are not going to be known for god's shake. You may earn a little hike in traffic. But could you really make a change? Does your opinion matter to some corporate companies or groups etc..? Do you think they listen? Some do, I must say but there's a limit and you should know what it is. You have to make sure you have your facts right. If you are just going to give another post that says.. "Aaaa Yes Me To"... kind of stuff, it's not going to go anywhere.... but you could gain a couple of yawns. So wake up! Things not to do :

• Immature Complains - Well search this term (slow streamyx) on google blog search and you would know what I mean.
• Don't give ideas as though you're the only person trying to change the world.
• Stop the "me to" type of post - I support this and that etc etc.. You get the point.

Things to do :

• Be opinionated for your readers only! not aimed at respective companies/parties.
• The goal is to share therefore creating a value is your concern. Think before you hit the publish key if your post will be helpful to some extent!
• There is no harm on sharing your personal life with a crowd yet do make sure you know what is appropriate. No one want's to read your poem, love letters or your latest fight with your girlfriends/boyfriends.

This issue is solely based on my opinions and how I feel about it. So the motive is to share some tips that Aattam 100 vagai team should take into count. Every piece of opinion should be at least taken into count, if they were to do a postmortem or so. That's my job here on this blog. To share some ideas right? Yet, lets move on why aattam 100 vagai is a disgrace to the Indian community if it is to continue as it is today. 

1. Why is the show portraying Indians in a very dodgy manner ? What's with the slangs and reggae culture? Can't that be prevented. Modernization is what we need, but what's portrayed here are not what modernization actually suppose to be. It feels rather dodgy. It may lead people into a wrong culture guys. Keep classy. That's what we need. 
2. Costumes - Why are you making the participants look like clowns? Can't the team arrange some sort of guidelines to show some sort of classiness? What's with the striking colours. Do you provide such colour codes? Simple, have a look on recent movies and check out the costumes used by the troops. They look way much better than what you are allowing the participants to wear. Common, this is show telecast we are talking about here! Why can't we be showing an uplift on our image? 
3. Professionalism - Show scripts, host outfits, planning, protocols, gosh the list goes on... The only thing rocks here are the sets. 
4. In terms of participant props and so on, what's with all this extra unnecessary stuff here? Its a dance show for god's shake. We are budding future celebrity dancers here. Don't mistake me, we really need to take this into count as the uplift of the participants personal images is way much more important then anything else. 
5. There should be some training center for this guys who participate. Before they go for the audition sessions to be chosen, they should be fit to dance. Mind me, I do not intend to look down upon anyone. Dancing is seriously a tough thing to do and its not meant for everyone. Im not perfect. No one is. But, why can't professionalism be shown on sets. It looks more like the participants are dancing for the fun of it and not for real showmanship. A reminder to people who join such events. It's not about the fame. Fame does not take you anywhere. It's all about the quality of the end product you provide. That would keep you running for ever.

This above is a snapshot of Google trends search on Usability..  So much usage, yet not productive enough?  The way, I see it, there is so much potential for social media growth, and targeted marketing. Yet, Malaysians are not recognized globally and the amount of web development expertise are... hand countable.  If, anyone in Malaysia was to publish a service in a proper ethical, new web methods, social media etc.. There are no reasons why we would be left behind! So why are we left behind? The answer is simple. Wrong Usage. Wrong Coverage. Wrong Audience. Below are, the most widely used applications with professionalism standards involved. This are applications that uses social media at its best. Services that provide values for users. I went through couple of famous services and most of them had similar results. To show what I mean, I post below, stats for Twitter & Facebook. Well, what's my point here? Malaysia could not be found on any of this benefiting services here. But where are most of the users going to! See Below... Im amazed.. We are even on the top 10 cities. Well, majority Malaysians are using the internet today for the sake of friend-finding. Yes its social, but please do take a look at the profiles you find at friendster. Its pretty amateur. That's fine, but its just bunch of useless information and posterity. Exposing your self on the net with all your fancy poses, what's the point? Is friendster some sort of date service? Don't mistake me my friends, but this is an ongoing issue. Look at the potential we have yet its being drained into the wrong channels! I understand that the majority users of friendster are schooling teenagers. Well how are we going to create an awareness, it's totally another issue. Well, some people may argue with me that Facebook is the same thing, well you are wrong! Do read my previous post on the facebook mutual contact issue for a better understanding.  My dear friends, please wake up. The internet could be a dot-com bubble for our economy as well only if it is put to the right usage. Know the Internet. Know the Social ethics. Know how to Behave. Know Where to go. 

Malaysian Broadband industry is currently on a smooth incline towards it's quality of services and offers. With good incentives from the government and as well opening up doors to a healthy competition which eventually breaks down the TMNet monopoly leads to a revolution it self.   In brief this is what is happening. Firstly 3 major companies earlier this year have been granted the WiMax spectrum license as you may know by now. These companies are Packet One(Subsidiary of Green Packet), YTL-eBusiness & Asiaspace. With the WiMax option provided, now there so much room for growth which is actually happening. Currently P1 has been operating in Kuala Lumpur and has recently gained license to operate in Penang as well.  One of the most exciting things the federal government of Kuala Lumpur and state government of Penang have announced are free WiFi. Over at KL, the federal government have provided funds to P1 to allocate free WiFi hotspots all over KL. This free period is approximately for 2 years but it is deemed to continue on. Register now @ WirelessKL to make use of it. I was told that currently there are 160 hotspots allocated and it's still growing. Besides KL, in Penang, the company that would be providing the free WiFi service is Redtone.  Since our TMNet ethernet connection infrastructures are poor, the government has also signed up on a cool deal with TM on upgrading its broadband services. Which is a good thing. This benefits majority of us as our landlines are from TM and there is no other way to get connected. If you were to switch to other providers, it would be insanely pricy as there is no volume on the competitors side. Overall Im pretty happy with the progress on broadband awareness in the country although its slow. It would slowly open up clogged minds of those who had weird thoughts about the internet in general I hope! To my estimations and based on ongoing affords, 2nd quarter of 2010 would be a good deadline to mark improvements and broadband standardization.  

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A Facebook spokesperson says “To simplify this a bit, users on Facebook cannot have more than one account and creating another account for the purpose of playing this game violates our Terms of Use. We recognize and appreciate that each person uses Facebook based on their own interests and preferences and are happy to see people meeting new friends on Facebook. To ensure users are comfortable on the site and not burdened by unsolicited contact, we encourage users to add people that reflect their real-world connections and create trusted networks.” - Michael Arrington, Techcrunch

Adding to the above, Facebook is actually saying not to fake accounts and please only use Facebook to Mirror the real you, and your real social graph. That means you are not encouraged to use Facebook to find friends or add people you really don't know in order to purposely increase your friends list. Which completely makes sense and it is ethical. Now there are a couple of points and questions that I would like you to ponder at below in regards of Why you should not abuse the Facebook social graph purpose. It's pointless - Well I ask you, do you know who you are adding? Does the person whom you added or going to add knows you? Is the relationship mutual in both ways? It's ain't cool - Having 1000's of friends? For what? Do you get the respond you need? Are you a valuable asset to the person you added and vice-versa? It's inappropriate - Why do you need to know unwanted informations such as the favorite movie or the favorite drink of the unknown person you added? Why are you making his or hers information irrelevant to you when you made an irrelevant move in the first place? However, you should be worrying about the person you are actually going to go out with in reality or at least some mutual connection in near future. It's not helpful - Are you sure you are going to get help or advise when you really need them from your 1000's of friends list? Would they help you in any other way? For example, I have Chris Brogan in my friends list. He is not a direct contact of mine. But he did fall on my real social graph. Why? I followed him from day one. I made a mutual connection with him. I communicated with him. Eventually, he became an online mentor to me in a way. Now this relationship exist and therefore, it makes sense for me to add him. In Conclusion - Be real, be you, be your social graph. That's the only way, social media could help you and others. I am not skeptical in adding friends. Well, if you have a reasonable reason to network, then it should go through. Think about it in this angle; Facebook is your contact memory of your brain in virtuality. It remembers everyone you know and would love to keep in contact with. Your brain would not store strangers wouldn't it ? So why should Facebook do?

People complain to me that its difficult to maintain a schedule even with all the batch posting. Well I have to admit. I'm not superman. I face it all the time. Batch posting as well does not work for eveyone. Image by Strobist But wait, it might work if we set realistic goals.. Create a constant flow. A flow that I have seen people like Shel Israel or Jonathan Fields keeps up with. Try posting every 2 to 3 days one's and stick to it. Announce it as a routine post for your loyal readers. The key in attracting people and to show that you are committed is constancy. I have talked about constancy in past and I must say, Never Fail To Do So. You may add extra post at any point of time at any day. That eventually gives an extra to expectation. But I remind you again keep going constant first. If you were to use batch posting in this situations, plan it for your routine days. Every alternate days perhaps. Besides improving your task schedules, there is another plus point in doing so. Quality of post generally increases and that is what we need to execute. This happens as we are not cramping schedules or straining for ideas. Im sure within the two days between your next post, you would have figured out on a solid post. Stick to that and develop it. That's not enough! Don't forget Social Media. A fact we all have to admit is that, the internet never sleeps. It's possible for people to forget you today if you were only gone for a day. Well it happens :) The days you don't have post or content written on your blog, try to be really active on your favorite social networks. Pick a few networks. Don't burn out by attempting to be active on all. That's crazy. Pick the one's that fits you best. For instance Twitter. Do not let Twitter be a chore to you. Its a form of communication and accept it. Make it a daily routine to communicate with others via Twitter. Connect with Facebook. Stumble a few sites. Gain a stand on the entire social network. This enriches your presence on the web.  Pumping in great content everyday at all this networks is beneficial to you as they are to others. Make sure you pump some content and distribute it on the social networks. May it be as little as 140 characters. The key is  "Give to get", never forget that. Create your presence wisely. Prove you are human and you rock. Last but not least. Spend extra hours if you need to. If you want to rock, you need to sacrifice at least a little. No pain no gain! In no time, You are recognized !

Indian serials may cause brain damage? Well not directly but indirectly. To be more accurate, Indian serials may lead to self depression and anxiety. The reason is simple. What does most Indian serials consist? Family problems, sorrow's, betrayals, depressed emotions & the list goes on... being negative of course. I'm saddened on the ever growing industry of the Indian serials that seems to be coming up with more and more family problem oriented serials. I'm not too sure where this is leading to. But I'm confident enough to say that this is misleading current and future generations of Indian mankind. The cause of such disturbing serials leads to mentality change. People's attitude and approach towards life becomes very shallow. I hope a change is made soon on mainstream entertainments. Besides that, I'm many who follow me would know about Mediavatharam. Well with Mediavatharam in mind, I'm beginning my venture deeper into the production of Indian New Media content. Contents that would be niched. Content's that was desired to be seen on main stream. Well, as the saying goes "Social Media, powered by the people for the people."