Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October

This was the question I asked on the Web yesterday, and people had interesting responses. Imagine you were born and brought up in a time where Twitter and Instagram always existed. Would you still blog?Many said no, which I find to be an interesting conclusion especially for people who

I’m the latest guest on the “People and Blogs” series by Manu. Hearing from people in this series has been a great way for me to meet some of their blogs over coffee. And now some of you web humans reading this might like the story

Instagram (I): Stories are not posts. They disappear after 24 hours.People (P): What if I want to retain them?I: Now you can archive storiesP: I don’t like some peopleI: Okay, you can mute their stories tooP: I want to

Someone from a legacy Indian media outlet called me recently to ask me to write an article on Indian space within five days, and for free. They expected me to agree to commit to it then and there itself. I said I’d have considered contributing but the timeline

I’ve seen this recurring theme on Twitter, LinkedIn, and virtually every microblogging social platform I’ve used. Teasing something exciting you’re working on gets better visibility than when you share that work itself.Here’s an example from the Twitter of yore—which