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Saturday 30NOV2024

It was in 1995. My husband and a couple of his friends, with the memories of their successful months long ticket-drive (literally so by the wife of one of his friend) to stage the banner of their new-found hobby-horse, Pallavi, a partner ship to enable listening to live classical carnatic concerts in Sydney with   others who yearned for that genre of entertainment, released the tickets of their forth coming concert by Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, to the accompaniments of Sri G J R Krishnan, Srimathi Vijayalakshmi and Sri Karaikudi Mani. In all of some indistinct hours with in a day, they had to close the box office, for every ticket was sold out. A spurious one-off occurrence in the history of Pallavi with every other resembling their first taste at ticket-drive, adequately augmented by all of their hobby budget most times. Pallavi changed its organisational structure a few years down the line and incorporated the entity, with a constitution that formalised their intent and operations thus far for the assurance of sustainability of its intent in the years to come: Pallavi, their little hobby horse; unpretentious in its intent, accurate in its accountings and truthful in its operations.

Organising for unpretentious, accurate and truthful delivery is, however, impossible without a validated implementation of policies, procedures and work-instructions interfacing in a cohesive multi-plexed regulatory framework fit for delivering communication solutions for humans in a social setting. The first step in developing any regulatory framework is to take stock of the existing operations/provisions and exclude consumer segments(contra indicate) who may suffer potential harm from potential communications, (eg. posts, feed) etc. that are potentially, pretentious, inaccurate, and untruthful.

I am celebrating X-mas early: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/australia-banned-children-from-social-media-and-the-world-jumped-20241129-p5kuib.html

Sumathy 

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Saturday, 23NOV2024

It was in 1986 that I visited new Zealand for the first time. The NZ television had two channels. The programs of one of the channels included half an hour of national news every day. If there wasn't anything to report, worthy of bothering our evenings, the program would wind-down the headline news for the rest of the week or drop off to covering farm subsidies or sports. If something went wrong, at most you'd have to wait till the evening news to confirm, as did everyone else, and you'd know to take the next flight back home. Unpretentious, but accurate and truthful.

For example, the fact that the fire-alarm that got all the guests of the multi-storey hotel we were staying in, down to the foyer in the middle of the night, nor the fact that we rolled over and slept, didn't make it to the evening news, even though there wan't anything more significant to report that night from Aukland. I can't, however, even begin to count the opportunity costs: there could have been a 24 hr news crew hanging in the lobbies picking up the first ring of the alarm and setting the twitter stream alight, to be followed by the involuntary retweets of the Sydney siders as they reluctantly cast off their phones to their bedsides, in turn triggering an explosion of retweets from Chennai and other IT hubs took a break at 4:30 pm, while their employees used twitter to keep their fingers moving lest they refuse to start again given, there’s another eight hours of unfinished work starring at them, before calling it a day, only to be dis-proportionately augmented by LA by half their lot who couldn't fall asleep and the other half starting their days with a break. By morning, the twitter trend would have demanded that national crew be brought to the lobby, and who knows, my self and my husband would even have a joined a special panel discussion advising on how to sleep through a fire alarm. Pretentious, inaccurate, but truthful.

Sumathy