(15:38:35) Vanlal: we're having a discussion on how to filter content in a social network
(15:38:38) Vanlal: Striatic has too many friends
(15:38:55) LJ: i want to start a blog - a collaborative blog on marketing
(15:39:02) LJ: i'm looking for - uh - collaborators
(15:39:43) Vanlal: cool. Got a hook?
(15:39:56) LJ: not yet
(15:40:13) LJ: dude, twitter has what plurk and pownce and all others dont have - momentum
(15:41:11) Vanlal: you're missing the point.
(15:41:20) Vanlal: people move with their social nets
(15:41:36) Vanlal: Mine has decided that Twitter doesn't work for us
(15:41:43) LJ: hmm
(15:41:43) Vanlal: and we've all de-camped
(15:41:53) Vanlal: which is true.
(15:41:54) LJ: well you have a good online social web, so it works for you
(15:42:21) Vanlal: twitter is great for the A list bloggers who have millions hanging on their every utterance
(15:42:49) Vanlal: Theycan broadcast freely. With Plurk you're forced to listen to feedback.
(15:43:29) Vanlal: I've found that most bloggers aren't concerned about feedback, they just want to publish their **ORIGINAL** thought out there ASAP
(15:43:56) Vanlal: original being a huge overstatement
(15:44:11) LJ: yup
(15:44:23) LJ: see thats why i am not yet hot on microblogging
(15:44:33) LJ: i dont see a real use in day-to-day life yet
(15:44:41) LJ: and i dont find it pervasive
(15:45:32) LJ: my linkedin network is best positioned to make use of such a rapid-conversation tool, but they dont have it
(15:46:07) LJ: plus unless twitter/ plurk can work beautifully on my mobile device it is virtually useless
(15:48:18) Vanlal: what'd make sense is a service that marries itself into an existing social network.
(15:48:49) LJ: exactly
(15:49:01) LJ: which is why i said, LinkedIn is crying out for one
(15:49:10) LJ: it is the perfect network - useful
(15:49:40) Vanlal: Take your linkedin example with plurk for example. Integrate plurk and you can have asynchronous conversation with your linkedin network
(15:50:01) Vanlal: useful for you - corporate stud/whore :-) Not for everyone else
(15:50:22) LJ: lol
(15:50:44) LJ: well, most of these soc nets have open API's - wht stops plurk from integrating with facebook!
(15:51:59) Vanlal: That's the whole point. Sell that concept to FB & Plurk

Rather telling comment on how we treat our maids. Poets never will be gentlemen.

BTW.. I'm in love with the new Bloglines interface.

That seedy highway chai shop in Kattangal, scene of many mid-night debauches, has a thriving Orkut community. The mind boggles!

Fondly remembered items on the menu - Mik-cher (Mixture), Chaya ith elakkaya, noodles-single-attached and the man Vinuvettan himself. The most memorable thing on the menu was a heart-stopper that Venu eventually chalked down as Chicken Maggi Doggy Ishtyle. (Try saying that quickly in a thick North-Malyalee accent.) For the curious, that's a thick soup made with the contents of at least one packet of 2-minute Maggi noodles and one or more eggs.

Anyway, what does Venu serve now?

Now we get chilly tea,onion tea etc..

YA REALLY.... NOT JOKE

If you could eat anything you wanted, and not have to worry about gaining weight/being unhealthy/inhumane, what would you totally pig out on? 
Submitted by Jay.

I could kill for a bowl of soup and a platter of deep-fried pork momos. As a matter of fact, I think I'll do that as soon as I log off. Shillong's junk food, Yum!

edit:
It was Goooood! (rubs belly) I could do this every day.

I watched Earth and Fire again. Still waiting for a copy of Water, the final instalment of Deepa Mehta's trilogy. I hope it's good.

What are your Superbowl plans?  What's your prediction and why? 
Submitted by danatmedog.

Uh! What's a 'Superbowl'?