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I was browsing through my daily blog reads when I came across this post by Rohit Bhargava, VP of Digital Marketing Strategy at Ogilvy Public Relations. Rohit argued what many of us in Web 2.0 have figured out all along: you don’t need an MBA to be successful in social media and social media might be the new MBA. He gives a four point list on how the skills taught by a traditional MBA program can be learned by working in social media.

I for one happen to agree. Particularly because few MBA schools will teach me what I want to learn–internet marketing. I’d likely learn a lot more by doing projects and learning along the way through books, blogs or collaborating with my peers.

So what do you think? Do you have or are you thinking about getting an MBA? Do you think it is necessary to entrepreneurial or job success in Web 2.0? What about those of you in other areas of technology?

The inefficient facet of gold - It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head. — Warren Buffet

Sounds absurd, no? But then isn’t the world full of absurdities…

So I knew this was coming. But when I saw the familiar little green and red balls gchat uses for status as a bar near the end of my Facebook page it was a moment of pure love!

My first conversation is with friend I haven’t talked to him ages. You know the kind of person who doesn’t use any of your other chat networks but happens to be on FB a lot. Yeah those.

The experience was superb. My only suggestions to FB–get better smileys. The current ones look pretty demented and some of them down right scary. Also prevent the window from flickering when I send a message. Of course I know I’m typing a message honey, I’m not that drunk…yet. Happy Fri wadiwallahs!

In my last post, I mentioned the then breaking story that the Pakistan Telecomm Authority was in the process of blocking YouTube from the country. The “reason” given a video that was disrespectful to “An Hazrat, Maulana Mohammad, Rasul Allah”, as we are wont to say in Pakistan, or “The Gentleman, Our Lord, Mohammad, Prophet of God”. Of course, amongst our wonderful, patriotic Pakistanis, there were the immediate questions about whether that in itself was a rumour or documented. Well, please do take a look at one of the documents that went out from the Pakistan Telecomm Authority to the ISP’s on Siliconstani’s blog.

The suspicions on the part of the grapevine is that this blocking/censorship happened when it happened because of videos that were ending up on YouTube of vote rigging–both in Karachi and Lahore and elsewhere. Though the brunt of the suspicion is about videos of rigging in Karachi, and pro- the MQM.

But, wait! There’s more!!! Breaking news right now is that the way the regulatory organizations for the Internet in Pakistan went about blocking YouTube has caused an outage/inaccessibility of the site globally!
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Saw this on an advertisement banner outside a bike shop going down El Camino Real just South (is it South?) of Stanford and had to do u-turn to go back and take a pic:

What can I add?

We’re going to be adding a bunch of Flickr and other multimedia links on this site…check in on them, early and often, as they say! And please do send in your suggestions, favorites, least favorites, and the like to be included in the WadiView section. (Oh, and check out what we have so far!)