Krishnan's Blog

Media is one of the most happening and important inventions of man kind. With the advent of time and tec hnology, there was advancement in the media field. A lot of media tools started coming up. Before going into the comparison between the traditional media and social media, it would be wise to define them first. Traditional Media: It comprises of newspaper, television, radio and banners or ads in public places. This of course costs a lot. For example to advertise on the velachery bus terminus would cost Rs14,000 per month. The traditional media is a static way of communication, where the communication is just one sided. When we watch a T.V or read a newspaper or listen to radio, we just listen to what they say. It is just push information, where the information is pushed on to us. We do not get to express our views or discuss with the host/presenter or the reporter. The traditional media has been in existence for a long time and hence has managed to earn a large user base. A c...

I was first introduced to cell phone, when I was in college. My first cell phone was a reliance phone which was the craze in those days. Reliance phone was the one, which brought the cell phone revolution into India. Later I moved to Nokia 3305, with an Airtel sim card. This phone was quite different from my previous phone as it had more features. During the end of my college in 2006 I got my hands on Motorola C700. This cell phone had GPRS and we need to call Airtel and ask them activate the GPRS facility and we could use the internet through our phones. Damn believe me it sucked. The sites where opening at snail pace and I almost hated it. I made up my mind that mobile internet was an utter fiasco. I didn't knew that this is going to change in the future. Slowly I went on upgrading my phone and at a time after the sudden death of my Sony Ericsson k660i, I bought Nokia 7210 supernova. This phone is cool. It is slim, stylish, light weight and has all features that one needs nowaday...