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		<title>Of Reputation and Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Tatas nurtured over a century, Niira Radia &#38; Vaishnavi have demolished in a week. #MediaMafia&#8212; Mahesh Murthy (@maheshmurthy) November 29, 2010 Mahesh Murthy is right. All those years of building up credibility, threatened (not dashed to the ground) by keeping bad company! I will add, this is true in both our professional and &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2010/11/29/of-reputation-and-secrets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=770&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Road Rage &#8211; Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a post I first wrote exactly five years ago to this date, on 4th November, 2005! And yes, I&#8217;ve been blogging since before most people had internet in India! I am republishing it today, because I think it is still very relevant here in 2010, as it was in 2005. Because while technology has &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2010/11/04/digital-road-rage-redux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=620&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Morning in India via NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2010/11/01/its-morning-in-india-via-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noshtradamus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot being written and a lot being said about the recent &#8220;protectionist&#8221; stance adopted by some states, and the rising voices against &#8220;outsourcing&#8221; in the US. I have been watching from the sidelines, because it doesn&#8217;t affect me directly, as yet, but I know it may soon&#8230; I read something today that pushed &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2010/11/01/its-morning-in-india-via-nytimes-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=615&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright fraud (?) by a &#8220;blogger&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2008/11/07/copyright-fraud-by-a-blogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I spot incoming links to my blog, from a site called Business Way which I discover is using my content as is, to attract traffic. And I am not alone in getting my stuff streamed without credit &#8211; there are other sites too &#8211; there are sites from the US and elsewhere whose &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2008/11/07/copyright-fraud-by-a-blogger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=442&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CEO Brand Ambassadors and the &#8220;Main Hoon Na!&#8221; syndrome</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2008/10/25/ceo-brand-ambassadors-and-the-main-hoon-na-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was in small electrical shop in Shakarpur market, and was looking for an power extension board &#8211; &#8220;give me the best quality&#8221; I requested.  The shopkeeper smiled with pride, and then with great flourish revealed to me his &#8220;best quality&#8221; extension board. No it wasn&#8217;t Philips, Bajaj, or any such familiar &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2008/10/25/ceo-brand-ambassadors-and-the-main-hoon-na-syndrome/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=402&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Useful Thought #005</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2007/03/26/random-useful-thought-005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legend has it, this is what a senior PR person once told a top US politician who was complaining about the bad press he was getting, and about how people talk badly about him. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t want people to say bad things about you, don&#8217;t do bad things!&#8221; It applies to all of us &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2007/03/26/random-useful-thought-005/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=75&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attrition in Advertising and Public Relations</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2007/03/26/attrition-in-advertising-and-public-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do people in advertising and public relations shift jobs a lot? Quite simply, because it is a &#8216;people business&#8217; where the products and services we deliver are really ideas and thoughts of individuals, and an extension of their personalities. The absence of &#8220;one right answer&#8221; in our business leads people to put their own &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2007/03/26/attrition-in-advertising-and-public-relations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=74&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising, PR, and the Art of Saying &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/18/advertising-pr-and-the-art-of-saying-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noshtradamus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrases &#8220;No, can&#8217;t do!&#8221; or &#8220;thanks, but no thanks!&#8221; don&#8217;t quite figure in the vocabulary of advertising, marketing and public relations people, do they? And I mean when it is in the context of standing up for what we believe in, or refusing business because it goes against our values, professional instincts, and the &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/18/advertising-pr-and-the-art-of-saying-no/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=54&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart, Julie Roehm, Draft-FCB &#8211; the highs and lows straightened out</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/11/wal-mart-julie-roehm-draft-fcb-the-highs-and-lows-straightened-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I (like a whole lot of us) have been following the abovementioned story from the time Draft-FCB got the Wal-Mart business&#8230; when George Parker exposed the internal memo at Ogilvy&#8230; then when Draft-FCB &#8216;released the lions&#8217;&#8230; right up to the discovery a couple of days back that Wal-Mart fired Julie Roehm and has put the business &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/11/wal-mart-julie-roehm-draft-fcb-the-highs-and-lows-straightened-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=42&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Not me. But my content!</title>
		<link>http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/05/update-not-me-but-my-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m back on wordpress and the issue of illegal mirroring has been sorted out. Here&#8217;s how: On discovering the illegal mirroring of my wordpress blog at byindia, I wrote an email to both byindia and web2corp, a  US based company that recently bought byindia. Within a couple of hours, I received an email from &#8230; <a href="http://noshtradamus.com/2006/12/05/update-not-me-but-my-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noshtradamus.com&amp;blog=475783&amp;post=38&amp;subd=noshtradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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