Comments on: Go Out, Get Clicking

By: Original-Anon

Original-Anon — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:45:28 +0000

Can we please get Sin to join the KMB team? Sin, would you? Please?
Anyone like to second my proposal?
Omar, are you listening?

By: Sin

Sin — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:21:28 +0000

A bit of an exaggeration perhaps, your statement about “shame” and “disgrace”, but it does follow in the grand desi tradition of melodrama. I fail to see the connection between a lack of pictures and being stereotyped as fanatics/radicals, but if you’re implying that you’d like to see pictures of Karachi’s finest partying it up, or of the city itself, you could be more constructive about it. Perhaps you can give people an idea of what sort of pictures you think are needed, because another 50,000 traffic jam images will be fundamentally useless. We also don’t really have all that much in terms of tourist attractions or heritage sites within the city, so the population of Karachi is irrelevant; we may have a lot of people, but there aren’t many things to take pictures of.

By: Sufi

Sufi — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:22:13 +0000

1. No of PC Users/Owners in the City: Are you kidding me? After the imports of used personal computers, I dont think anyone that I know of does not have a computer at their home. And trust me I know a lot of poor people. Everyone has a computer today.

2. No of Internet Users in the City: Cable Internet has been a booming business for a while (actually going down now), and because of the cable internet, I dont think there are many people who have a computer and do not have a cable internet connection.

3. No of “Digital Camera” Owners: I agree that the number of people with digital cameras is low, but I see a lot of people buying new digital (chinese made) cameras every now & then. Besides, we are one of the craziest cell phone loving cities in the world, and almost everyone that I know of has a good decent camera phone. The point of surprise for me was when the maid at my house flashed her Sony Ericson K750i and that was last year.. lol

5. No of (4) who like to share: Thats where this post comes in, start sharing.

Khurram: Disgraceful, ok maybe not really. But its a fact that we have been slow to portray ourselves as happy fun-loving people in the world, and that we should show the world that no we are all not fanatics, and warriors, and that we have a softer side as well.

By: Formerly Yahya

Formerly Yahya — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:52:18 +0000

“when did ‘not’ having most pictures at an online photo album become disgraceful or makes us fanatics….”

Never. Lets work on some good quality pictures nevertheless.

If Lahore & Isloo can do it so too can Karachi. :)

By: mansoor

mansoor — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:10:43 +0000

khurram: i second that question… anyone?

By: Khurram

Khurram — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:30:58 +0000

when did ‘not’ having most pictures at an online photo album become disgraceful or makes us fanatics….

By: Faraz

Faraz — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:45:41 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52422795@N00/310463564/ Feel free to comment !!!

By: MB

MB — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:27:59 +0000

Abdul Sami has understood the point i was refering to initially.

But Sami, provided that we dont have a proper concensus on Karachi population ( forget what happened in 1998, we know the figures were manipulated), how on earth we ever be able to correctly find out the variables that you mentioned. Yes, we can have a rough figure.

By: Keep Walking!

Keep Walking! — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:16:11 +0000

What a useless discussion :)

By: Abdul Sami

Abdul Sami — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:06:12 +0000

There are lot of factors here, a huge population is no deal.

1. No of PC Users/Owners in the City
2. No of Internet Users in the City
3. No of “Digital Camera” Owners in the City
4. No of (3) who are also (1) and (2)
5. No of (4) who like to share

I bet (4) is very small here and then (5) is small too.