The blog has not been updated in over twenty days, not for a want of things to write about, but more because of the minor machinations that are at work. There is plenty of plumbing happening in the background, but the building, at least for the time being, remains the same boring one.

It is strange to be on the internet on a Sunday morning, after having the read the day's newspapers and watching an election unravel on television: there is just such a disconnect between all the three in terms of how you interact with it and what you get from each that the term "convergence" looks more like a joke than anything else.

If generic context was what facilitated the explosive growth for the post-bubble internet, it will be personal context that will turn things up many notches in the coming years. There are major issues that need to be addressed for this to be made possible, especially in terms of the humongous amount of computing that is needed to make this possible.

But, as said earlier, convergence is a bit of an issue here. Even generic context has not trickled down into print or television. For that matter, it has not trickled down into even the mobile sphere. And that is where the next big opportunity is. Now, the question is who will take that opportunity?

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