World Bloggers’ Day 2011

This day, last year-

MBICEM's Technoloy Club- MBITEC- decided to conduct a blog writing and designing competition on 31st August 2010. Under the guidance of Mr Srimoy Patra and Ms Shikha Kukreja, the MBITEC members were successful in attracting as many as one hundred entries from the students of the college. A full day activity, the Bloggers’ Day Competition, amidst many technological glitches, was highly appreciated by all the members of the MBICEM fraternity.

And this year-

Owing to the huge success that the competition saw in 2010, and the tremendous growth in the number of people taking interest to blog writing, MBITEC has decided to celebrate World Bloggers’ Day as an annual event at MBICEM. The details for the Blog Writing Competition to be held are as follows:

Date: Monday, 29 August 2011

Venue: Computer Lab, Ground Floor, MBICEM

Who is eligible: All First, Second and Third year students of MBICEM

Timings:         9.45 AM to 11.15 AM             Third Year

                        11.15 AM to 12.30 PM           Second Year

                        1.30 AM onwards                    First Year

Blog writing/designing topic: A political debate or a personal experience or a poem or anything you consider worth sharing; it is completely up to you to decide.

NO word limit.

Time limit per participant to write a blog entry and design: 45 minutes

Blogs to be posted on www.blogspot.com

Registration Deadline: Sunday, 28 August 2011

Please note that regular classes are NOT suspended on 29th August.

What you need to do:

1.       Create your blog, if you do not have one, on blogspot.

2.       Type your Full Name, Year, Section, Blog address/url and e-mail it to cyberclub.mbicem@gmail.com to register for the competition.  (Please see below, about laptop/data card details)

3.       Just keep an eye for the confirmation e-mail from us.

4.       That’s it! Now you are a part of World Bloggers’ Day Celebration 2011. Congrats!

If you have a laptop and/or a wireless internet data card, then please bring them with you on the day of the competition to the venue. And please mention it when you send us the registration details.

For further queries, please leave a comment along with your Full name, Year, Section, E-mail id below. Or e-mail us at cyberclub.mbicem@gmail.com

A glimpse at Bloggers' Day 2010:

The participants

Cyber Club members

Happy Blogging!

Animation: Giving life to imagination

When John Lasseter came up with his latest flick 'Cars 2', audience were thrilled to see the ground breaking techniques. Pixar's Cars 2 has driven animation to new heights.
But when did animation in films came into existence, moreover, what animation actually is?
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term is Computer Generated Imagery(CGI). It encompasses both static scene and dynamic images. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are still used for stylistics.
Animation in films dates back to 1973, when 'Westworld', the first animated movie was released which had used 2D computer animation. It was a science fiction film about a society in which robots lived among humans.
In 1995, first feature length computer animated film 'Toy Story' was released by Pixar, which used 700 specialised animation controllers. Another animated movies which have made a benchmark are 'Avatar', 'Shrek', 'Superman' and many others.
Fox Animation Studio which came in 1994 gave movies like 'Alladin' and and 'The lion King' which were appreciated by the kids.
In 1998 Steven Speilberg came up with his Dreamwork Animation which has produeced 'Shrek'.
Winners of 7 golden globes awards, Pixar, is the biggest animtion film production comapny, which has given movies like 'The Incredibles', 'Toy story 3' which came in 2010 is the highest grossing animated flm till date, and the latest 'Cars 2'.
Even in India, animated movies are growing both in popularity and quality. Movies like 'My Friend Ganesha', 'Hanuman', 'Ghatothkach' all are well accepted by the audience.
Roadside Romeo was the first 3D animation movie in India but it didn't perform well. The main problem is with the advanced techniques not being used because of which the final product is not very attractive.
There are many animation film productions in India which include Toonz Animation India, Pentamedia Group ,etc, but it will require a lot of hard work and new techniques to produce such animation films which could meet the standards of Hollywood.

Entertainment ke liye kuch bhi padhega!

Blogs… we write blogs to share our experience, ideas, thoughts, decisions and values  and many more things through which we can share our personal  incident with our readers so that they can make the full use of that part in their life…. In simple and not so complicated I should  say that our main purpose is to entertain and guide people.

Today it’s my turn to write blog and believe me that today I have nothing to say  or share  with you all because my mind is stuck only at one way that is “INTERNSHIP” and main problem is that I don’t have any internship and time is running like a bullet train…. Please pray for me everyone.

To entertain myself  I am reading all the unread mails of my father and friends and I think that even you all should go through it. I am sure that you all will enjoy  the mixture of jokes,g.k and sarcasm .

LET’S START

1. Meant for Professionals…

HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB?

Put about 100 bricks in some

Particular order in a closed

Room with an

Open window.

  Then send 2 or 3 candidates in

The room and close the door.

 Leave them alone and come back

After 6 hours and then analyze

The situation.

If they are counting the

Bricks.

Put them in the accounts

Department.

If they are recounting them.. Put them in auditing ..

If they have messed up the

Whole place with the bricks.

Put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the

Bricks in some strange order.

Put them in planning.

If they are throwing the

Bricks at each other.

Put them in operations ..

If they are sleeping.

Put them in security.

 If they have broken the bricks

Into pieces.

Put them in information

Technology.

 If they are sitting idle.

Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried

Different combinations, yet

Not a brick has

Been moved. Put them in sa

If they have already left for

The day.

Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the

Window.

Put them on strategic

Planning.

And then last but not least.

If they are talking to each

Other and not a single brick

Has been

Moved.

 Congratulate them and put them

In top management.

  2. Boy: after our marriage..u promise me dat u wont ask for separate house

for your own..

Girl: No dear, I am not like dat kinda gal..u can shift ur Mom to some

other house.

"Rishta wahi..Soch nayi

3. Heavy rains remind us of challenges in life. Never ask for a lighter rain. Just pray for a better umbrella. That is attitude.

4. Every problem has (n+1) solutions, where n is the number of solutions that you have tried and 1 is that you have not tried. That's life..

5. Take a look at this list

Gujarat India earthquake 26 Jan 2001

The Rhodes earthquake 26 June 1926

Taiwan earthquake 26 April 2010

Japan earthquake 26 Feb 2010

NE Japan earthquake 26 May 2003

NE Japan earthquake 26 July 2003

North America earthquake 26 Jan 1700

Yugoslav earthquake 26 July 1963

From Indonesia :

Aceh Tsunami 26 Dec 2004

Jogjakarta earthquake 26 May 2006

Tasik earthquake 26 June 2010

Mentawai Tsunami 26 Oct 2010

Merapi volcanic eruption 26 Oct 2010

OTHER HISTORICAL disasters:

Krakatau volcanic eruption 26 Aug 1883 ( 36,000 dead )

China earthquake 26 July 1976 ( 255,000 dead )

Portugal earthquake 26 Jan 1951 ( 30,000 dead )

Kansu , China earthquake 26 Dec 1932 ( 70,000 dead )

Turkey earthquke 26 Dec 1939 ( 41,000 dead )

Sabah Tidal waves 26 Dec 1996 ( 1,000 dead )

Bam , Iran earthquake 26 Dec 2003 ( 60,000 dead )

Why is it always " 26 " ?

Make education stress-free

Education should be a joyous experience, but if too much pressure is put, children find the going a hard – work and tedious examination system has made the life of present generation full of tension and stress. There are hundreds of cases of youngsters taking the lives when they fail in exams. It is the duty of parents, schools, colleges, universities and educational authorities to make education stress- free. To a large extent, a part of stress can be eased by promoting harmonious relationship between parents and children and also between the wards and educational institution. All efforts should be made to sustain the trilateral intersection among the student, the teacher and the parent.

·         The decision by C.B.S.E to give 15 minutes to the candidates….
·         The internal assessment is also very thoughtful…
·         Grading system is another proposal to eliminate stress…
·         Also the guides of every NCERT book is available...
·         The tenures at college level is a helping hand…

To ease the stress of education on children, the parents too need a lot of counseling.

“You are not your result,” screamed the white projector screen of a presentation made at a gathering of parents. Said engineer turned singer Mr . Shankar Mahadevan, “Results are not everything. Do what you enjoy success will automatically follow you...” 

COMPUTER GURU

We all live in a metropolitan and lead a comfortable life- using computers and laptops by using them as our many alternatives to communicate with the world. We send e-mails and chat on social networking sites and find it easier to stay in contact with our friends.

But there are still some regions in India where using a computer describes the qualification of a person. The person who knows how to use the computer is considered to be a person with a lot of brain!!!!!!!!

I am not writing this blog by studying from any article. I have experienced this situation.

Some months back I went to the TIRWA district of Uttar Pradesh. The things which I am going to tell you now may or may not amaze you but as far as I am concerned, I was seriously shocked when I saw all this.

This is the story of a 26 year old boy named Sumit. He owns a cyber cafe which is the only one of its kind in the whole district. Just because of his knowledge of computers he is given as much importance as any political leader. He is considered as the most knowledgeable person in the entire district. He has been invited to the inauguration of several events. From his cafe, he earns about Rs. 25000-30000 every month. He earns this amount by sending the e-mails of people to their relatives living in cities or other countries and by giving them computer training. Shocking, is it??

He charges Rs. 200-250 just for sending an e-mail if it is to be sent anywhere in INDIA and if it is to be sent abroad like in USA or somewhere else then the charges may reach up to Rs. 500.

If there is a fault in the computer set up in any government bank then he is paid for fixing that. People there are so illiterate that they don't understand the problem if the internet connection does not work.

Once, a bank officer tried to make a customer understand that the transaction could not be done because the server was down. Then the reply that came was- tera server down ho ya ghar bar down ho mujhe mera paisa abhi chahiye nahi to tod dunga sab. The situation was going out of control when the computer guru was called who made the customers understand in his own way why the server was not working.

This is the condition of our country. It is a just an example but there are still many live incidents taking place in rural areas all the time. We may reach up till the skies....but our country will not develop as long as rural areas are not made to develop....

Technology based advertisements

Whether you are looking for a specific item or just browsing for ideas, advertisements are the best help you can get. You can easily shop for some of the hottest items on the market. Advertising is the process to publicise which includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade a target market to purchase or to consume that particular brand.  These messages are usually paid for by sponsors and viewed via various media. Advertising can also serve to communicate an idea to a large number of people in an attempt to convince them to take a certain action. The advertisement helps and informs the consumer about qualities and price of goods and this makes purchasing easy for the consumers. As the prices are already advertised, the consumers cannot be over charged.  By regular advertisement, the manufacturer can sell the goods directly to the consumers without depending on middlemen; this eliminates the Middleman's charges and profit. It means higher profit to the manufacturer and lower prices to the consumers. It helps in improvement of the quality of the goods. The consumers are attracted by the quality of the products that are advertised. If the consumers are convinced that the quality is the same that is advertised, they continue buying.  It helps the consumer to save time. It raises the living standard of consumers.  It provides knowledge about the new designs of the commodities to consumers and thus consumers consume those commodities and increase their living standard.

There are various ways in which we can advertise our product in the Print media like Newspapers, Magazines, Brochures, Fliers .The print media has always been a popular advertising medium. Advertising products via newspapers or magazines is a common practice. Often the newspapers and the magazines sell the advertising space according to the area occupied by the advertisement, the position of the advertisement (front page/middle page), as well as the readership of the publications. The price of print ads also depends on the supplement in which they appear, for example an advertisement in the glossy supplement costs way higher than that in the newspaper supplement which uses a mediocre quality paper.

Outdoor Advertising is done by Tradeshows and Events. Outdoor advertising is also a very popular form of advertising, which makes use of several tools and techniques to attract the customers outdoors. The most common examples of outdoor advertising are billboards. The billboard advertising is very popular however has to be really terse and catchy in order to grab the attention of the passersby. For instance a company that manufactures sports utilities can sponsor a sports tournament to advertise its products.

Broadcast advertising is by Television, Radio and the Internet. Broadcast advertising is a very popular advertising medium that constitutes of several branches like television, radio or the Internet. Television advertisements have been very popular ever since they have been introduced. The radio jingles have been very popular advertising media and have a large impact on the audience. For example 3d motion ads like cartoon scripts are used for attracting crowds. Covert Advertising is done in Movies. Covert advertising is a unique kind of advertising in which a product or a particular brand is incorporated in some entertainment and media channels like movies, television shows or even sports  like the appearance of brand Nokia which is displayed on Tom Cruise’s phone in the movie Minority Report, or the use of Cadillac cars in the movie Matrix Reloaded.  

Sometimes an indirect advertising is also done like Fosters and Kingfisher beer brands, which are often seen to promote their brand with the help of surrogate advertising. Advertisement for products like cigarettes or alcohol which are injurious to heath are prohibited by law in several countries and hence these companies have to come up with several other products that might have the same brand name and indirectly remind people of the cigarettes or beer bottles of the same brand.

Advertising for Social Causes is another form. Public service advertising is a technique that makes use of advertising as an effective communication medium to convey socially relevant messages about important matters and social welfare causes like AIDS, energy conservation, political integrity, deforestation, illiteracy, poverty and so on. David Ogilvy who is considered to be one of the pioneers of advertising and marketing concepts had reportedly encouraged the use of advertising field for a social cause.

Posted by Gurleen Kaur

Interactive Communication by Social Media

Social Media is media for social interaction. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to make communication interactive. It is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. Millions of conversations that people are having with each other across the world 24x7 is described through social media.

Social media is the no. 1 online activity. 2/3rd of global internet population visits social networks. Social media has reached to the top spot because millions of people are creating content for the social web. In all cases social media is free. All it costs is our time. It is not just social networking rather social networking is a part of social media. Social media is a wider concept which includes facebook, twitter, youtube etc.

Social media is distinct from industrial or traditional media such as newspaper, television and films. It is relatively inexpensive and accessible to publish or access information. The use of social media is growing tremendously. It has made people's life easy and comfortable. In coming years, social media will become the communication mode for the whole world.

History needs to be Rewritten

History has been taught,and is still being taught,as a continuous narrative of pre-selected events. Thus, the history of a particular ruler or a ruling class or dynasty qualifies as a history of that time and society.Similarly,the personal religion of the ruler or ruling class often emerges as a determining factor when it comes to interpreting history.

Most literary material which has survived the ravages of time and which serves as the basis on which to construct the history of that period relates to elite or dominant groups. This is based on that only the elite groups have a right and access to education. They,therefore,recorded their lifestyles and portrayed the elite sections of the society in thsese written records. In other cases,people who have recorded history,if not belonging to the elite group themselves,have invariably been people associated with the court.

IT is thus essential to review and rewrite history and prevent its abuse for political purpose.

Ideas or hotcakes?

The world is going through a financial crisis and so is the common man. But this is not the first time that such an economic slowdown has happened and whenever it has occurred it has come as a blessing in disguise for a small fraction of the society.

What is so special about this fraction? It is only the fact that they did not course the world market and sit back. And nor did they devise new plans to save capital and assets like many others. So what did they do? They thought differently. Their thinking made them stand out. That is why today, they have established themselves in the market. Did you know that 30% of the multinationals that exist were set up in the time of the financial crunch?

In the commercial market the most valuable commodity that exists is called an idea. People sell ideas for billions, and incredibly they do get buyers!! Nowadays, companies and media like Google and Economic Times run initiatives to literally ‘purchase’ ideas and promote them. Initiatives from the ingenious media like Lead India and Teach India sell like hotcakes. Why have ideas become suddenly so valuable?

In today’s highly competitive commercial market, intelligent ideas are highly sought after. A modern-day multination brand cannot afford to advertise itself through a typical rhyme of the nineties, and nor can they do by just keeping-in a few stars or sportsmen like Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni. Along with famous faces, they also need breakthrough ad-scripts.

A recent hotcake concept was that of the chairman of Ontend Creative Partners-Stephen C. Lundin, also a business school professor and author of the bestselling FISH philosophy. He describes “FISH” philosophy in his own words: The idea behind the “FISH” philosophy was derived at a fish market in Seattle.  This market creates such a powerful experience that it has become an international tourist destination.  People from all over the world travel to Seattle to hang out with a group of happy and motivated fish mongers.  The philosophy describes the essence of what constitutes a workplace with a high level of natural energy.  We labelled the ingredients found in the fish market, ingredients that are found in a work place that has a high quality of work and an amazing connection with workers. We called the ingredients ‘Play’, ‘Make their day’, ‘Be there’ and ‘Choose your Attitude’’’.

How has he followed this discipline? : “People ask me how I can have so much fun when things are so bad. A few years ago, my girl was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver. I made my choice. No matter how things were, I was alive. The fish! Philosophy is free. It honours life. It is a source of energy which leads to productivity and it creates an innovation promoting environment. And that my friend is the power of ideas.

Desire for death...

It is rightly said, death is not in anybody's hand...it comes when it has to, so why to think about it?...but sometimes life brings one to an edge where he feels that death is better than living. Who can know this better than Aruna Shaunbag who is battling for survival since last 37 years and can't even end her life as the court turned down the euthanasia petition filed on her behalf.

'EUTHANASIA' the term became very popular after the movie 'Guzaarish' released, and mercy killing became a debatable issue. As for the readers information euthanasia means painless killing of person who has a painful incurable disease or incapacitating disorder. It has been a controversial issue because Indian law has always been in favor of natural death and whether it be mercy killing it was considered as a crime...but Aruna's case brought about a change in thinking of Indian law makers, and in its landmark judgement it allowed passive euthanasia in India which meant withholding the treatments such as antibiotics or machine vital for the continuance of life. 

The case became a blessing in disguise for many other patients.

As in my personal opinion, consent should be given to active euthanasia as well because living a life where one can't respond is equal to death...and such a life gives immense pain not only to the sufferer but also to the people who see them in this pathetic condition everyday. as there are no possibilities for the patients to recover, the best way to assuage them from their pain is euthanasia.

Technology spiced up!

After almost a two month gap, we at Creative Call are back with our weekly blogs. MBICEM’s Technology Club, MBITEC, is celebrating this week as ‘Technology Week’ and so this entry comes as an informal and personal attempt to get to you the latest happenings in the techno-world from around the globe.

I remember reading a feature (in a December 2010 issue of Brunch) that described gadgets that we can expect in the new decade. One of the items mentioned there was that of a cell-phone projector. Imagine carrying a 2’ x 5’ mobile phone in your pocket which you could take out any time and watch your favourite movie projected on a big screen! Isn’t that amazing? Well, Spice launched the first Projector cell-phone last week! Priced at Rs. 7000/- this device promises to be one of the most successful gadgets, modern technology has seen!

From the analytical and difference engines of Charles Babbage to the Super computers, Personal Computers and Laptops, the computer has passed through a vast sea of change in a very short span of time. The latest in the line-up are the tablet PCs or palmtops. The pioneer of technology advancement, Apple Inc., recently launched the second edition of its iPad. The immense success of the iPad couldn’t stop the company from launching iPad-2 with many more features that promise to overcome the shortcomings of version 1. With the profile camera now added, video chatting is no longer a problem. You no longer need to hold a mirror at the back of the device to get your face captured on the screen! Hehe…

The rate of technology advancement is not an undiscussed topic and everyone understands it well that a ‘newer’ technology is already in the pipeline whenever we get to know about a ‘new’ one! Well we have got robbots today, is it too much if we expect pseudo cloned humans tomorrow?

times we left with a heavy heart...

      A  Debt

                           Which  cannot   be   remitted

A few more months and then unwanted halt to the roller-coaster ride which was full of masti , fun and frolic. This has been an enjoyable journey with many ups and downs and unfortunately this enjoyment will come to an end before we will realize it.

A school is a scared institution where teachers put in their precious time, valuable efforts and undivided attention to churn out beautiful germs from the students who are being imparted education in such institution. The ties that bind a student with his teachers and school during his school life are the ones which fill his life with a true zeal of happiness and contentment, that make him as strong as an iron pillar to face the hardship and storms that stand awaiting him outside the four walls of school. The memories of school one cherishes with a vibrant smile enlightening his face with a magical glow. School is just like the first monsoon shower –refreshing and exciting. It is a ‘garden’ with students as its flowers and teachers as its gardeners .These flowers are watered with tremendous love and the valuable guidance of their teachers and will wither away in the so called ‘outside world’ where there will be no matter-like teachers to guide them, to protect them, to act as a shield against all the odds of life. School life is a golden treasure and the memories of this treasure will always ring sweet trinkets in our ears. School is where we spend half of our day, more than 14 years of our life. We become a part of this school ‘family’ at a very nascent age where we have our favourite teachers, pals, subjects and what not.

School is a bumper deal packed with lots of fun and adventure. It has its own charm .if on one hand it has reprimands and punishments for our wrong deeds, then on the other hand, it brims with love , affection and guidance of our teachers. If it has classroom rivalries cumbersome homework’s then it is also effulged with fun of getting a free or games periods, curiosity to play amazing and childish pranks , pleasure to bunk periods, amusement and excitement to go to picnics and trips, the togetherness , the lifelong friendships and..............the list is endless..

When we will step out of this world, with ambitious, vigour and enthusiasm into the fiercely competitive world, it is the firm and strong foundation laid at school level, which will help us to surpass every difficulty and to shine as glorious winners.

So, whatever we become in life, whatever field we choose, whatever we achieve in our life, we owe it our school and for that we will remain to our school and teachers through our lives..