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Rafat Ali, Media Operator & Dad
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This type of creativity is rare in tourism ads these days, most of which blend into each other. This is different, a typical understated Norse sense of dry humor. From @VisitOSLO. Well done, more needed in this series.
00:00- Pigeons, at a rail station, resting on a Google free WiFi router. Three centuries of communications convergence. @ Aligarh railway station in India.
- It’s over, folks. Search as we knew it for last 30 years died this week. I searched for “Aleppo pepper alternative” and four mobile screens down found the first traditional search link. Go home, generic publishers, go home, information sources, go home, SEO folks, it is over.
- There is a mass delusion in travel industry about recovery, if my LinkedIn posts, YouTube videos from travel CEOs, or analysis from consultant types: if you just hold on for few more months, the world will come gushing right back out, come Q3 or Q4. Add inspirational song here...
- I don’t know how to process this as someone who has built my whole life’s belief system in supporting the occupied over the occupier, the oppressed over the oppressor: the brutal killing of hundreds of innocent Israelis and the kidnappings are reprehensible & my heart hurts for
- As an American Muslim in month of Ramadan, hard to comprehend except to say LGBT community has stood for us, our time to do same. #Orlando
- Very interesting and big boost for @Travalyst. Google and Skyscanner adopting emissions data in their search/booking engines.Google Selects Prince Harry-Backed Travalyst for Emissions Data on Flight Searches skift.com/2022/04/13/goo…
- Since everyone is down on media companies these days, let’s run through what’s good news about many of them. 1) Our democracy may have crumbled this year had NYT, WaPo & CNN not existed, incredibly important role of all three as we end 2017.
- This should be the most mindblowingly significant storyline of 2023, that India’s population will surpass China in mid April. There are hundreds of stories to be told, nuances & implications of this to be unearthed, this alone can be a whole journalism beat or two by itself.
- This is my hometown in India. I know this firsthand, our two-doors over neighbor there, the imam of our local mosque, all of about 40 years old with three kids, died last evening due to this.Just spoke to a local reporter in Aligarh. Close to seventy people have lost their lives since morning due to lack of oxygen in Aligarh alone. This is a carnage. This is a carnage
- My dad Dr. Rashid Ali, one of the most accomplished biochemists of his time, died exactly a week ago in our hometown Aligarh, at 80. He taught me everything I know about being fiercely independent, about simplicity in life & outlook, about creating your own space in the world.
- This is our promise to people we hire at @skift, and work very hard to live up to it, our team can attest.
- Wow, what a headline. It is unfortunately true as the foremost activist-journalist in India today @RanaAyyub lays it out here in detail. Please read it, and share. The future of the world depends on what happens to Indian democracy. ranaayyub.substack.com/p/india-is-a-f…
