"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations'     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150. Available @ Amazon.com

Saturday, April 27, 2013

I came, I saw, I conquered --Samachar.com homepage takeover ads


Original source: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Julius Caesar quotes (Roman general and statesman, 100-44 B.C.). Thinkexist.com

But the landing page of a website makes a visitor think, I came, I saw and I was... (visualize what you see, below)
See Samachar.com's landing (home page) as seen on 27th April, 2013--not sure if it is virus or design or whatever



A Cached copy of the Samachar on 25, April, 2013



On the same shelf:
  • Sify Technologies Launches iOS News App Samachar; Our Take
  • Don't visit samachar.com - WMF virus
  • Warning from Google regarding the Bombay Samachar Website--- I will not be sending any Parsi news from Bombay Samachar this weekend until this problem is resolved ---

    Online link Scan finds no virus on 28th April, 2013:
  • Sunday, April 21, 2013

    WEB 2.0 Experience: Wherein breaking up is hard to do

    Thinking of making a comparative study of the following titles:


    On the same shelf:
  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. By AZADEH ENSHA | New York Times -- includes FACEBOOK, GOOGLE PLUS, AMAZON, LINKEDIN, MYSPACE, TWITTER
  •  The Anxiety of the Unanswered E-Mail New York Times