Digital World

In US lots of Print editions of Magazines and Newspapers have closed down, unlike in India where Print Media still rules the roost.

Recently I was reading about the Google News Index which actually drives the traffic of the Newspaper site. Well millions of blogs are churning out Lakh's of good quality original interesting content every day. Most blogs do not have high readership. All this content is often picked up by the main media.

It would be useful to promote such writers through cash rewards and cheque's so that they continue their good work.

This practice is non existent any where and leaves blogger idea rich but cash strapped community.

Google adsense hardly generates the kind of revenues that would self support a blogger. In such a scenario most blogger's opt out of the cat race.

Digital Divide and India

Digital Divide in India seems to be getting less precarious with many NGO's taking care of starting training center for the poor with donated laptops and desktops or used ones.

The poor are learning software's like graphics suites et al and also making a earning through paintings or data entry jobs.

So soon we would be having slum dog Hackers.

I have a Running Virus Free PC

If you believe that your running PC is virus free your beliefs may not be well founded. Why that is because the strategy of today's hacker is to have your PC running and to use it to send spam messages and steal your information using trozans on a regular basis.

So don't be lax in your computers security and make it a regular practice to virus scan every day if you are connected to the internet.