Self-organising websites. If I had the time, I’d make mine one, like Slashdot or Plastic. Any takers at IIM-B?

Earthquake. We were in class this morning. We started off with 2 minutes of silence for the earthquake victims. At about 8:15AM, we felt a slight shake. We quickly ran out of the room and down the stairs. By this time, the tremors got fairly strong but they lasted only 7-8 seconds. At around lunch time, the estate officer said we were expecting more tremors at noon, so we lined up at the open air theatre, but nothing happened. ...

zeroTV: good TV-like entertainment for free. World Bank’s B-SPAN has World Bank seminars online. Yeah, the computer is becoming the TV.

Nasdaq will open in Bangalore.

An extraordinary animated spoof of Mohabbatein.

Brain map.

Recession? GM shuts 14 plants. Boeing: 1 plant. AMC: 548 theatres. WorldCom lays of 10-15%. HP: 2%. Delphi & Visteon: 10,300. Lucent: 10,000. Sara Lee: 7,000. JC Penney: 5,000. AOL: 2,000.

Websense proposes. Anonymizer disposes. Websense monitors employee Internet usage. Anonymizer scrambles it.

Consultants’ role this year will be to convert old economy companies into new economy ones. Old economy strategy consultants will gain.

People ignore banners. So we have interstitials instead.

INDIA - A Country Study from the Library of Congress. A comprehensive overview of India.

Even states have performance based pay. The less their fiscal deficit, the more their plan allocation. Good.

The Economist website looks more like a newspaper now.

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

Plastic – an interesting news source. I like Plastic work.

Rick Garlikov tried using the Socratic method to teach binary numbers to a third grade class. Looks like it worked well. I’m all for the Socratic method of teaching.

Salon’s article explains how silly people can get when firing employees.

I’ve ordered a copy of the World Employment Report. Apparently, it says that India won’t sustain its software boom, and I want to know why.

Asian option calculators from Enron and DerivativesModels.com.

A neat banking & finance portal by Northern Light. Covers mergers, reforms, technology, regulations, country-specific info, etc.