Comments on: TPS in Islamabad Bloggers Meet-Up

By: MK

MK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:39:26 +0000

@adi: point taken. will you join?

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:18:30 +0000

MK,

English class for you is a must now it should be read and not rad.

By: MK

MK — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:14:17 +0000

@ Everyone who rad my comment and replied: I do recognize that TPS has all the potential to be a portal that has something constructive on it. This is not the debate.
@Talal: I suggest an active approach towards improving things. We can hope for things to improve or we can act to improve them. We are on the same page my friend.
@Esa: IMHO crticism for the sake of critcism is even worse. The debate is not wether TPS is doing great or not the debate is what can we do to make it do even better.
@Naeem Sidhu: We agree on one point and that is there is always room for improvement everywhere. By this suggestion what we need to do is actively impove TPS and not sit and praise ourselves all the time. the point here is to invite useful suggestions not hurl comments at each other. cliche or not the statement stands test of time and needs to be thought about by someone more apt at doing thinking i suggest. Also saying that something is a cliche is actually an irony of a sort because to in order to point out a cliche you have to use a cliche. This argument is endless.
I have a number of issues to raise and suggestions to make and i was thinking on writing on the very issue sometime soon as i find time.
And i find your comment somewhat contradictory when you tell me that TPS touches the issues of ‘millions of people’ and not just a town or a region but then you go on to tell me that TPS is just TPS and can not be wsj or economist. What is so special about wsj and economist that a few brains here at TPS can not make. They are only human and so are we. We need to trust our talent. Dont you think?
@ everyone: Constructive criticism awaited…

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By: Sara Bano

Sara Bano — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:54:48 +0000

So much writers, so much discussion. TPS leaves me no option but to return and then return again.

By: Ch. Naeem Sidhu

Ch. Naeem Sidhu — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:51:16 +0000

There is always room for improvement even in the best of the best media groups or blogs. I do not find TPS publishes issues confined only to a district or county. The writers usually write on issues which affect lives of millions of people. The list of regular writers is fairly long. Some ‘desi’ writers write with clarity of thought although many are not that fluent in English as English natives are (like me).

MK, I am sorry I could not find an practicable suggestion from your words except one, TPS needs editors. Yes, if TPS can hire some English knowing editors to correct language mistakes, it will be fine.

It is just a cliche to say…”Think global and be global people…”. It is TPS. It can not be economist.com, wsj.com or time.com.

Like every portal, publication, there are some wonderful writers but many are not so wow. Thats it. I think TPS can not hire the best English writers of the world.

By: Zahid

Zahid — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:43:33 +0000

I like TPS.

By: Jabeen Ara

Jabeen Ara — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:42:47 +0000

My cousin was at the bloggers meetup in ISB, and he brought home one printed article of TPS. He was all praises for TPS, and I am visiting this site for two days and it’s addictive.

By: Esa Ali

Esa Ali — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:41:20 +0000

MK and Talal, criticism is the easiest thing on this planet. While you guys talk, TPS IMHO is doing a great job.

By: Talal H Malik

Talal H Malik — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:20:15 +0000

^ MK. You are right in so many ways. I am not sure for how long TPS has been on the scene but I started writing here since last year, and considering that TPs shifted to the dot com domain only a few months back indicates that TPS is still in its infancy. Hopefully things will improve with time. And yes we surely need EDITORS on TPS.