The Problem with Local Media.. After the recent Lasith Malinga fiasco, I have identified some big loop holes in the local media. They like to create hype through unnecessary stories which are not beneficial in any way to the local public. They like to talk more about politicians. Highlight and sugar coat all the stuff they do each and every day. Never talk about ...

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව බොහෝදෙනා හදුනන්නේ “ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මුතු ඇටය” ලෙසයි. එවන් නම්බු නාමයක් ලැබූ මෙවන් සුන්දර රටක් දශක කිහිපියක් තිස්සේ කුරිරු යුද්ධයකින් ඇවිලෙන්න විය  නමුත්, අපි එම අභියෝගය ජය ගත්තෙමු . ඒ , අපේ දේශයේ මුර දේවතාවන්ගේ ශක්තිය හා ධෛර්යයෙන් මෙන්ම රටක් වශයෙන් අපි සැවොම එකෙක් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ  නිසාවෙනි. දැන් යුද්ධය නිම වී තිබුනත් අපි තවම සිටින්නේ මුල් සිටි තත්වයේමය. ...

ඉහත වචන පෙළ මා උපුටා ගත්තේ  මිට දශක කිහිපයකට පෙර අපි අතරින් වියෝ වූ මොහිදීන් බෙග් මාස්ටර්ගේ ඉතා ජනප්‍රිය ගීතයකිනි. විවේකයක් හමුවූ වෙලාවක මා මෙම වචන ගැන මදක් සිතන්නට වීමි. එම වචන වලින් කියවෙන තේරුම අද කාලෙට කොතරම් ගැලපෙන්නේද කියා මට තේරුණි. එය එක අතකින් සතුටට කරුණකි. මන්ද , මම එවැනි මිනිසුන් හදුනා ගැනීමට දැන් දන්නා හෙයිනි.  එය අනිත් අතකින් දුකට කරුණකි. ...

රට අතහැර යාම.. එයද නිවැරිදි  විසදුම ? මෑත කාලයේ බොහෝ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්  දිවයින අතහැර යාමේ ප්‍රවනතයක් දක්නට ලැබේ. මින් බොහෝ දෙනා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව බලා යන අතර සමහරෙක් වැරදි මාර්ගවලින් යාමට ගොස් අසුවී නැවත පැමිණ ඇත. මෙම ප්‍රවනතාවය රටක් වශයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ගුණ නැත. නමුත් වෙන කරන්නටද කිසිම දෙයක් නැත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ  අද පවත්නා සත්‍ය තත්වය එයයි. මෙම ප්‍රවනතය ඇතිවීමට හේතු කිහිපයක්ම බලපා තිබේ. එකාදිපති පාලනයක අදුරදර්ශී ක්‍රියා පටිපාටිය . ...

Remembering Steve Jobs and IPhone 5 Image Source Yesterday (October 5th) marked the 1st anniversary of the passing of the great man Steve Jobs; the man who was the signature icon of the tech giant Apple Inc. It is difficult to believe that a year has gone since the great man who changed the way we do things, we though about things left us with ...

Colombo Celebrates Social Media Day.. [with PICS] Yesterday (June 30th) was a special day to all Social Media enthusiasts. It was the day where the whole world celebrated the emergence of social media; a concept started by the popular website Mashable, to promote social media all around the world.The city of  Colombo also joined the bandwagon and celebrated “Social Media Day “in grand style at Park ...

5 factors Organizations should consider when going Mobile.. Image Source The modern world is experiencing a wave of new technologies which have surely created hype among tech enthusiasts as well as business and IT organizations. Technologies such as Cloud Computing, Nanotechnology have grown at a huge rate during the past few years and other tech trends such as touch computing, social gestures and html 5 have been considered among ...

RockMelt – Your New Social Media Browser.. Image Source Have you ever wanted to stay connected with your friends while you were browsing the web?  Have you ever wanted to connect all your social media networks into one browser so you don’t have to log on to every network separately and check their updates separately ?  If you were someone who had these problems then all ...

Digital Democracy.. How it can be Achieved.. Image Source Democracy is a concept that has existed in the world for a very long time. It shows the power of all the citizens of a nation and that power is often shown when electing leaders whom they want to run the nation for development and prosperity. Add the word “Digital” to it and you get a concept ...

Memes.. What’s its True Purpose?                                                         Image Source Memes have become one of the hottest new trends in the world of social media. Many social media enthusiasts have started creating and sharing memes and have used social media streams such as Facebook and Twitter to spread their creations to other users.  Sri Lanka even has its own Facebook Page dedicated to Memes. So what is ...

Are we Ready to Live in a Virtual World? Image Source Summary: Virtual reality has become of the most important trends that can be seen in the modern world. From being just a concept to a modern day phenomena, it has changed the way people think and live. Will this change take over the simple, real human lifestyles and create a virtual world? Are we ready to turn ...

RIP Google+? Image Source Google+ was considered the next big thing in social networking when it was launched late last year. As it nears to complete one year in going live, it seems it has lost its place in the social networking world with old and new rivals going far ahead and more successful than them . Is it time we ...

Should you really buy your kid a Smartphone? Image Source Summary: Smartphones have become one of the fast growing technological devices in the modern world. It has become a trend where everyone seems to be dropping their old mobile phone for a smartphone to keep up with this growth. With its growth , the number of children who are using smartphones have also increased. This post tries to ...

Why IT Organizations should Prevent Experienced Employees from Resigning from the Organization Image Source Summary: IT Organizations always face the problem of experienced employees leaving the company looking for greener pastures. There are a certain set of risks a company face when such experienced personnel leave. This post tries to find out those risks and suggests ideas which would help the company to stop those employees from leaving.  Modern day IT ...

New Month , New Change.. Hello Everyone, It has been a long time since I wrote my last post. It has been a busy month of February and it is already gone.  As the third month of the year dawns upon us. I got some great news to you . I have added two new blogs to  BuildingMyBrand  The first one is for inspiration.Anyone  ...

5 Tips to become a Great Speaker.. Image Source Summary:  Public Speaking is considered the second most feared thing by humans next to “death”. Yet, anyone can overcome this fear by frequent practice and remembering a certain set of rules. This post tries to points out these rules through 5  tips which if obeyed correctly, would help anyone to overcome this fear and become great public ...

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