The last post
This is the last post on IIITBuzz.
It was pretty evident from the scanty posts that CmdrBuzz was missing (for a few months now). Well, the reason is that CmdrBuzz (yup, me) has graduated and moved out of IIIT. The blog was started as an effort to report the buzz in campus and has been pretty successful (except for the last 3 months). Also, the blog aimed to record the day-to-day events at IIIT and it did quite a neat job of it too (except for the last 3 months, again).
I hope someone can use one's journalistic skills to create something similar, to keep updates for IIIT. News, by itself, is as cold as ice. It's only when an author lives in the news that the ice melts. This blog can serve as a motivation, if anything.
I started this blog as an experiment. I wanted to see how the people in the institute think. What are rumours? What causes rumours? What is news? How many people know the news? How many people get the facts right? How many people really think? The answers to these are for my personal consuption.
I employed psychology with this blog to gain mind-share. To give an example: Did you ever notice the "Just buzzed" comment on every post which buzzed on this blog? Just think over it and you'll realize why we put it. Or did you note that we have been using the word "buzz" throughout this blog as a selling catch-phrase -- a tounge-o-philic term? Don't agree? Just count the number of times "buzz" occurs in this post. Or did you notice that the (almost) secret identity of the authors added flair to the ordeal?
Throughout this blog, we tried our best to maintain the truth. It is because of this factor that IIIT Buzz had some credibility with the faculty too.
Who is CmdrBuzz?
The ones who need to know can add 2+2. For the rest, it doesn't even matter. Really.
Adios
Cmdr Buzz
Editor, IIIT Buzz
Buzzed by CmdrBuzz @ 4:50:00 PM
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