Cops take action on 29 out of 35 traffic complaints on webpage

Altough netizens have been uploading photos of law-breakers, the Mumbai traffic police's official webpage on Facebook has not been uploaded since Thursday. However, Hindustan Times has also created a webpage on Facebook in association with the traffic police 20 days ago so that commuters can post complaints against errant taxi and auto drivers.
The webpage is called HT Mumbai First.

Facebook campaign against BMC apathy gathers steam

Mumbai:

Within a day of its launch the online campaign on Facebook, protesting the municipal body's careless attitude towards pruning trees regularly had 130 members.

The Movement was started by the friends of Antara Telang (18), the FYBA student from St Xavier's College, who had her right leg amputated after a tree branch fell on her on July 24.

Friends launch Facebook protest

MUMBAI:

Till a few days back, Neha Sethi was your average 18-year-old, who thought Facebook was cool for catching up with friends and classmates. But when her friend Antara Telang (18) lost her right leg after a tree branch fell on it, Sethi and her friends realised Facebook can also be a powerful tool of protest.

They are now launching a Facebook campaign to protest the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC's) negligence in not trimming the tree branch.

Hyped Meter Jam flops offline

The online campaign against errant taxi and auto drivers was not very successful. Was it justified and fair to all in the first place?

The main premise for Meter Jam was probably to get auto and cab drivers on the right track. However, most of the auto and cab drivers we spoke to had no clue about the campaign. Also, apart form a few working professionals and students, there wasn't much awareness about this among the public, and most of them did not care. Soon after the campaign's failure, the online world started criticising it. Though people did support the campaign, it did not garner the kind of response that was expected after all the hype.

Facebook messages congratulate jammers

MUMBAI:
The Facebook page for the Meter Jam campaign was a hot favourite on Thursday with scores of people posting messages congratulating the jammers and describing their day without taxis and auto rickshaws.

"Good going guys," said a message posted by Jishna Joshi, whose profile picture was the campaign logo.

"It gives me immense pleasure to read what people are doing. Jammers rock!"

Meter jammers geared up to pool cars, bikes

BOYCOTT 170 citizens have signed up their vehicles to prop, pick up fellow jammers

Mumbai:
Soon after organisers of the Meter Jam campaign uploaded a carpooling to on their website on Wednesday morning, registrations began pouring in.

More than 170 citizens had signed up their cars and bikes till 9 pm on Wednesday, offering to drop and pick up fellow jammers along certain routes on August 12, to help in the successful boycotting of taxis and autos for a day.

NGO raises funds for your cause

Using blog, Twitter and Facebook allows individuals to request for and receive information about funds
In our times, the Internet is easily the most powerful medium that people can turn to when they want to make a request for help. But it's easy for their plea to get drowned in the deluge of information on cyberspace.

Social psychologist Chandni Parekh decided to exploit the full potential of the Internet by connecting people with information they might be seeking. She decided to use Twitter to start a platform whereby individuals or NGOs could make requests for donations or receive information about available funds.

Police still to shut down fake account maligning force

In what appears to be the handiwork of a skilled programmer highly disgruntled with the city's police force, a malicious account on Twitter, a micro-blogging network, has been created in the name of state director general of police.

The account also carries a link to a defamatory website which displays the Mumbai police logo in its masthead. Though the account and the website were created as early as in February, they are yet to be shut down.

This duo finds treasures where others see junk

Driven by a strong DIY ethic, switchklick.com is couple's attempt at making responsible living a lifestyle choice

Freelance writer Aruna Chandrasekhar and her fiance Sriram Sharma, a contributor to the online tech portal technoholik.com, are in the middle of moving house. In between figuring out logistics, they have a few things to tick off their checklist - dealing with the sizeable 'junk' they have hoarded over the time spent in their Navi Mumbai flat and the idea of turning it into 'house-leaving' gifts for friends.

Have a grudge? Put It online!

Facebook group to also have own website soon

Employers beware. The city's media fraternity is taking its professional bond to the next level. Earlier this year, Sapna Bhavnani, hair stylist and proprietor of hair salon Mad-o-Wot, started Blacklist, a Facebook group meant for people who have been duped or not paid for their work by media organisations and production houses. But in two weeks, the group will gain stronger ground and be launched as an independent website by the same name.

Konkanis unite online to save their language

Konkani doesn't have a script, but it will soon get a dictionary, thanks to an entirely volunteer-driven website, savemylanguage.org

A script gives a language some kind of permanence in a predominantly oral culture. Spoken languages are freer more fluid. They thrive in the air, but also depend on the living to stay alive. Konkani is one such language. Essentially colloquial, it is spoken across dinner tables, in fish markets and community courtyards in and around Mangalore, Karnataka.

Log on to save western ghats

MUMBAI:

Now, you too can do your bit to conserve the ecologically sensitive western ghats. Just log on to www.westernghatsindia.org and mail any information you possess on the region.