You may have noticed that there’s hardly been any business/ economics blogging going on here for most of the year. Most of you probably didn’t care, but in case you did, please rest assured that I haven’t given up. It’s just that right now I’m preoccupied with an idea that is not fully formed.
The problem is that this idea is multiple intersecting ideas. And while I have a vague idea of how they link up, I can’t put it into words yet. And the the things linking up include:
- Nandigram, Singur, and eminent domain in general (especially Ila Patnaik’s more-than-one-year-old oped on it)
- IIMB’s internal instant messenger
- The lack of public spaces for performing artists in Bangalore
- Why people in slums have TVs but not flush toilets (this was a Nitin Pai post a while back)
- Bars in Singapore
- Why DRL got funding from ICICI Ventures while Ranbaxy did a public issue
- The Bangalore Central mall
- Reservations
- The Flickr API
- Open source software
All these are very diverse but rest assured that they link up. The problem, as I said, is in explaining clearly how they link up. Once I discovered two weeks ago that the Flickr API was also connected to all this, separating and sorting the linkages has become easier. It’s still a jumbled mess, but I’m closer to banging it into some sort of framework than before.
Until that happens, arbitfundablogging will continue as usual.