वर्ग Internet

  • जनताले निर्वाध कुरा गर्न पाउनु पर्छ

    सामान्य नागरिकले आपसमा कुरा गर्ने, कारोबार गर्ने र आफ्ना विचार अभिव्यक्त गर्ने स्वतन्त्रता निर्वाध हुनुपर्छ । यो अधिकार जुनसुकै माध्यममार्फत प्रयोग गर्न सकिने हुनुपर्छ । संविधानले स्पष्ट तोकेका अपवाद बाहेक कुनै पनि बहानामा सञ्चार वा कारोबारमा अवरोध सिर्जना गर्न मिल्दैन । आजको समयमा इन्टरनेटमा आधारित सञ्चार र कारोबार नेपाली समाजका अपरिहार्य धमनी बनेका छन् ।…

  • The Kathmandu Post interview: When blogs were Twitter and Facebook

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    The Kathmandu Post celebrates its (and Kantipur’s) 21st anniversary today by publishing a 16-page pullout on Nepal’s social media scene. The supplement, titled “Platforms of Change“, explores how Nepalis are using the Internet and its various platforms mainly to express themselves and to connect and share and debate. In the lead article ‘Teleprinter to Twitter’, Editor-in-Chief Akhilesh…

  • Nepal Telecom’s Improved 3G Service

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    A week ago I posted an entry expressing my dissatisfaction with the Nokia Lumia 820 phone that I have been using since March. I wrote: Everything’s fine [with the phone] except the 3G connectivity. Not sure if it’s the Nepal Telecom network (I would like to think so and not blame the phone itself as yet) but I have…

  • मेरो इन्टरनेटसँगको भेट

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    दिनेश वाग्ले त्यति प्रस्टसँग होइन तर इन्टरनेटसँगको त्यो पहिलो जम्काभेट म अझै सम्झिन्छु । सन् १९९७ तिर कान्तिपथमा एउटा साइबर क्याफे थियो जहाँ म अन्य दुई साथीसँग पुगेको थिएँ । ब्राउजरमा खोलेको पहिलो साइट याहु.कम थियो र सर्च बाकसमा त्यतिबेला एउटा सिरियल खेलेर चर्चित हलिउड अभिनेत्रीको नाम टाइप गरेका थियौं । सामाजिक सञ्जाल अहिले फेसन बने पनि…

  • एउटा लामो ट्वीट [a very long tweet]

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    ठूलो पार्न यहा क्लिके हुन्छ । त्यस्तै आजै प्रकाशित ‘साताका ट्वीट्स‘

  • Connected in Kathmandu: Complaints and Compliments

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    By Dinesh Wagle Soon after Tihar celebrations were over in Kathmandu last week I was in Thamel with a colleague who was leaving the newspaper for good. As he took his bike to a nearby parking lot I stood a few metres away from the entrance of the Roadhouse Café. I started fiddling with my…

  • The Twitter World Cup #Football

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    It feels like everybody in the world is in one room watching the match together. By Dinesh Wagle Every World Cup tournament is a watershed in the history of football. With the stunning display of human emotions and talents, the game rejuvenates millions of people around the world. Those who watch the games will talk…

  • A Nepali Death in the age of Twitter and Facebook (RIP #GPK)

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    Nepal’s top leader dies. Nepalis all over the world react hysterically on the Web. This blog entry is a supplement to a news report that I wrote in today’s Kantipur titled: निधनको खबरले भरियो फेसबुक [Facebook filled with the news of death (of GPK)] When Girija Prasad Koirala was born in 1925 Nepal was a…

  • Interesting Nepal related Facebook groups

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    You might want to go through this article titled “Facebook आन्दोलन” in today’s Kantipur for reference. And please, enter your email in the box on the right so that I can send you my future posts in your inbox. (source, kind of!) Facebook is becoming one of the most popular web sites in Nepal. Many…

  • Of Plastics and Facebook

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    The Post‘s Delhi correspondent is bemused by the controversy over plastics and discovers Facebook is ideal for keeping in touch with friends back home Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper. Here is the Nepali…