Via Om Malik

“Well its like ClassMates.com, only for Indians. I like Indians Reunited, especially now that I am in my inching towards what is called middle age in India.”

This should be interesting. Anyone out there who went to school in Madras in the 1970's – Padma Seshadri, Krishnamurthi Foundation's The School or Jawahar Vidyalaya?

Man, I just dated myself. Sigh!

If you are at all curious how sports photographers and other photojournalists get their work to press and into your hands so quickly, read this marketing plug from Apple.

Tom Wagner shoots all the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football games and uses a digital workflow that allows him to deliver 3,000 images per game to his various clients. One thing is for certain if it weren't for digital none of this would be possible. And using a Macintosh sweetens the experience even more. The article mentions a digital asset management tool called iViewMediaPro. I have ordered a copy. I'll post my review very soon.

Professor Rich Beckman at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill just emailed me to say that the 2004 Multimedia Boot Camp is on. If you are interested in Flash, ActionScripting, Video for the web and of course audio production, this is where you can get your feet wet.

The April workshop has quite a line-up of who's who in multi-media: Andrew Locke, Director of Multimedia at MSNBC.com, Tom Kennedy of WashingtonPost.com, Paige West from the Poynter Institute, audio maven J. Carl Ganter and multimedia guru Joe Weiss of The Herald Sun.

The $1,200 fee doesn't include jumping jacks or push-ups. Those are extra. And like most dinners during the workshop, you are on your own.

Concerned about your privacy? Not entirely keen on giving up personal information while registering with the likes of The New York Times or The Washington Post? Been the recipient of SPAM and lots of it? You aren't alone and I really do feel your pain.

For a solution, check out BugMeNot. BugMeNot “was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of websites that require compulsory registration and / or the collection of personal / demographic information.”

So, if you are feeling particularly squeamish about plugging in your name, adress, telephone number, email id or any other bit of information, this is your way out. Yes, this will tilt their statistics and the cyber-cops may question your ethics, but I suspect not everybody is going to do this. Life will be in balance, again. Phew!