On Thursday 05 Nov 2009 1:00:39 pm Priyanka Sachar wrote:
a paid conference for 2400$
What is TED? To me it sounds like a lot of talking.
Why is it so expensive? Talk is, after all, cheap.
Do the speakers get paid? Paid well - that is.
Getting paid to talk is a very American thing. In India
What is TED? To me it sounds like a lot of talking.
Why is it so expensive? Talk is, after all, cheap.
Do the speakers get paid? Paid well - that is.
I have no idea about TED, but I agree with the other points Shiv makes.
And if anybody's paying for talk - I come cheap. No, wait - as per
ss wrote:
Do the speakers get paid? Paid well - that is.
From what Amit tells me, TED speakers don't get paid anything.
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Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government
body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the
number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies
that routinely take such petitions seriously?
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None, usually .. moveon.org etc have done all that nonsense before, stateside.
Not had much effect that I know of. Even less of a point in India where how
many people isn’t the question, who are the people is.
No point in this kind of astroturf where X people sign on to send the same
Hi Divya,
Awesome! Sent that to my mom. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
Now I will accept the thanks.
More than anything else that is possible on the internet, I like the
opportunity to know / help people from different walks of life and in
different places on the Earth.
It is a fact that I
I did help run an online petition campaign when Avnish Bajaj was
arrested for the Delhi schoolgirl fellatio video advertised on eBay
India thing which got a few thousand signatures, which then made the
news, and he was then released, and the IT Act was implemented more
knowledgably in a
2009/11/9 ss cybers...@gmail.com
It is the cost that builds the brand.
So people pay for quality (perceived or not) and exclusivity. Whats new?
It is a bit far fetched to think that you could sell any trash just by
jacking up the price. You could if you build a great brand that reflects the
