Signal is Noise - another Point of View

Yesterday I wrote about the advent of the Information era, the phenomenal power of the III (Information & Intelligence Internetwork), and the pyramid standing on its head. (Signal is Noise, Noise is Signal)

Today I get to the point another way. How Signal is not Noise, but how to convert Signal into Noise. Pardon me for making it sound like a DIY series, it's not. It's a commentary on the current partial III embargo we Indians are going through. Which is the trick. The trick of "blocking". The trick to achieve the above How to.

As I write these lines, (and thankfully I can write them because the parent "blogger.com" is still accessible), the whole domains of .blogspot.com, .typepad.com, and some more have been rendered inaccessible in India as an anti-insurgency measure, in response to the recent train bombings in Mumbai.

I am not passing any judgment on the validity of the move, whether it is right-on-your-money or downright-stupid. But I want to re-emphasize the tremendous power of III. Right now it's a one-way street for me (again thankfully at least one-way). I cannot visit many of the blogs I admire (and was stupid enough not to put on my Bloglines). The egotistic touch I referred to yesterday is something I can feel more deeply. Millions of other Indians also must be facing similar difficulties in this temporary 'blog-less' phase.

If by chance someone catches this blog through a proxy, or some other means of countering the How to trick then please, please use My Feedburner feed to subscribe. For those who can still read this on blogspot, I urge you to do the same. Who knows what has future got in store for you?

Thankful having Seth, Kathy, and Tom (Vander Well) on Bloglines, I am now looking out for other noteworthy (remember NOISE?..) feeds myself. That will be my Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan for the future........

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