Funthusia

After the much commented first post about my times in Manipal…Here comes the second one.
Manipal Media Students Convention (Day 2):

It began with Kiran “??????” Jonnalagadda…His lecture was what we call in common parlance a “Bouncer”…Either he was talking Hebrew or my mind had become so primitive for that period that I couldn’t recept English. If anyone can give me a brief summary then please do.

Now we had a guy called Nishant Shah,

He began with a dhamaka….

(Shah and Dhamaka are the poorest forms of rhyme we have ever seen…)

He pulled off a reallyy intelligent stunt by calling all laptop users infront…It helped… As for his speech, he said something about False Binaries which I loved when I heard it…but sadly I have forgotten what they mean…So any soul who can tell me what it is, please comment.

Yash Chawla’s presentation was very good…He had a very concept and he had even done a survey in his college…which was really commendable. Now only if he hadn’t used the 99 year old quote of “A glass half empty or half full…”. I would have loved to believe that his was the most unique presentation.

A certain Paranjoy Guha Thakurta made a brilliant speech about intervention of technology in the lives of a journalist. I agree with everything that you said sir…

One of the liked presentations of MMSC was Lawrence Liang’s…I really liked the amount of facts unveiled and the “Woah…” factor of his paper on “Why New Media is not really New…”. On the downside, I think he had stretched certain information to the extent that, even chewing gums would get embarrassed.

So that’s it for this two piece report on MMSC…

During the convention, I also didn’t get the oppurtinity to thank a few people who were really instrumental in making this “Manipal” experience a fruitful and a memorable one.

Anadi : Thanks for reminding me about MMSC’ and most of all answering all the “OMG…It’s so damn obvious” questions of mine. Thanks Man!

Ram: You had commented on a poem(Online at 4:00 am) that I had written…saying that MMSC is for people like me. You may have said the same thing on 200 other blogs but it meant a lot for me. And yeah, thanks for that wonderful intro before my presentation…

Ami: For being my tour-coordinator and yeah for complimenting my blog…Keep reading it…The humor’s developed from 4 years of reading JAM…
Sonali: Thanks for showing me around the college and yeah, for commenting on my last post…And for the LAPTOP…Couldn’t have done my presentation without it…:grin:

Ragamalika: Thanks for making that call and yeah I must add you have the second best voice in India…The best is of a certain guy whose initials are SJ…
Priyam, Anoop, Yash and the other delegates:

Thanks for being such a good company…And special mention of Anoop coz’ he financed my lunch for a day… The 500 bucks scare was really scary though dude…

Joe, Satchi, Pavi, Sonali and everyone else from the Hospitality:

Even though I didn’t have long conversations with y’all I still respect the fact that you people saved me from that journey to the pub…
Venkat:

How can I forget this guy…He was the guy who settled me into my hostel room and was there while I was leaving Ninth Block…Thanks Dude!!

I know I’ve forgotten someone…Please lemme know if that’s you…

Anyways, I see a lot of MICians reading this post coz it’s related to MMSC…My message to them would be to read up a few more stuff on my blog and comment…I am sucker for readers…And I hope MMSC helped me get atleast a few…

No more sequels of this post,

Sameer Jha

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I begin with the Train Journey (I can’t afford flight) that took me to a small station called Udupi.

Towards MMSC:

Do you remember the time when you made your first train journey on your own. Well I do.

To begin with, I started SMSing my friends that I’ve departed and I’ll miss them.

Rest of the train journey was boring.

Though, in the later part of the journey. I was informed that a guy called Shaz is going to pick me up. He did pick me up and even said that I have a nice blog.
Thanks Shaz, It made me feel good even though I am not sure whether you really meant it.

Manipal Media Student’s Convention(Day 1):

I guess, I have bored you guys enough wih my train journey so without further ado, I’ll get to the reason for this long (felt short) trip to Manipal i.e. MMSC ( though the certificate and the free food were major factors… )

First on the list, was Aditya Mhatre with a workshop on Podcasting. This one was the best of both the days. The fact that Funthusia’s gonna very soon have a podcast category says a lot of things.
Next was Annie *YAWN* Zaidi…She just read out from a paper. …And anyways, It was about Journalism in blogging which I think is a waste of time.

Then came Chandrahas “I look like Matt Damon” Choudhury. One very good point about his speech was the comfort level that he shared with the audience. He had something to say on “Blogging and Literature” which was extremely relevant to me and I listened intently for advise. I didn’t get a great one. He just commented on the trends that exist and if it’s good or bad.
After Damon was, a cool guy called Peter Griffin. He asked us all for a cause that we believed in. Anyways, I forgot the start, middle and end of his presentation so kindly enlighten me if you do.

My Presentation :

It began with a nice intro by Ram saying that “This guy’s just 16 and he has a successful blog.” Man not really successful I say but then, thanks a ton.

I had to present a paper on “Why Bloggers Quit Blogging” …

Reason 1: Excessive Expectations from Adsense…

Many blog to earn money and if they cannot they just quit blogging. So my recommendation is to not use Adsense. I was quite successful in proving this point.

I asked “How many of you have ever clicked on an AD!?”

Only one hand shot up. That was really satisfying. These were bloggers using adsense and they haven’t clicked on an Ad.

Reason 2: Use of Blogger

Now since the majority of the people were blogger users, so i had a tough time convincing these people about shifting to wordpress. Dudes…Blogger sometimes can be a sole reason for a blog being unsuccessful.

MITians supported me with this. (Some bloggers from MIT rock big time)..

Anyways, for the blogger users…I need to ask this.

If given a chance between a Nokia N91 and a Nokia 1100 model, what would you choose if they both cost the same.

It’s not personal preference dude it’s features. And blogger is like a goddamn black and white phone which doesn’t come cheaper than a high end cell (wordpress)…

All on for arguments and yeah wait for my next part,

Sameer Jha

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