Monday 31 October 2016

Pep Guardiola says Man City's Champions League win over Barcelona is key

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side's 3-1 Champions League victory over Barcelona is a landmark win for the club, but admits they did not do it playing the way he favours.
City had not beaten Barca in five previous attempts in Europe and Guardiola said after the Group C game on Tuesday: "It is a good step to say that once in our lives we played against the best team in the world and we beat them.
"We competed with Barcelona, but for now we did it in a different way. We played more long balls because we are still not ready to keep the ball and play like they do.
"They have been playing that way for 25 years. For us, it is three or four months that we have been trying to play in a different style."
City staged a thrilling comeback after Lionel Messi's 90th Champions League goal put the visitors 1-0 up in the first 20 minutes.
The win, courtesy of two goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick, leaves City second in the group behind Barca, needing one more win from their two remaining games to progress to the last 16.
Guardiola, who won the Champions League twice as Barca manager, had seen his side lose 4-0 at the Nou Camp last month in the reverse fixture after goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was sent off.
But the 45-year-old Spaniard said that when it was "11 v 11" in the first game, his side performed much better than for the 38 minutes on Tuesday night.
"They were 1-0 up and we were really in trouble. They had a chance to score their second and if they had, then the game was done - finished," said Guardiola.
"Our equaliser changed absolutely everything for our mood. We also realised our build-up was too complicated, because they were playing a high-pressing game against us.
"We did not feel comfortable and we changed the way we played. We tried to play a little bit more direct."

Monday 10 October 2016


Most people confuse the term innovative journalism with
doing anything outside the box with help of some new
technology . But understanding and creating the simplest
of things is the hardest thing to do. The irony of it.
This is where most of the media organisation go wrong.
They want to create complex product using a simplistic
approach.
Innovative journalism is not just a mere merge of technology and journalism. If that was the case it would be called technological journalism. Innovative journalism means successfully executing the task of disseminating information with help of new technology and delivering it in such a manner that the experience is as seamless as it can get. The use of technology can be high but that should not reflect in the product . The audience/reader should not feel like that they are dealing with something complex.
So finding that sweet spot is a difficult task and is something which still remains unresolved.
The future of innovative journalism is bright . What we have seen till now is just the first chapter.
So where do I see journalism 10 years from now?
I think journalism will still remain the same as it has always. But the experience will change. With technological advancement like hi-speed internet , cloud computing and possible artificial intelligence we can expect some great things in near future.
The coalition of media industry and IT industry can just be the best thing that ever happened to media industry .

We all know people read news not  for the information or they really care about some event  until or unless it affects them. Most of them just get pleasure from reading the news. It is a human nature that we enjoy disaster news more than progress news. So to get more of that pleasure we demanded pictures with news. Then we had videos. Now next step maybe to take the people in the real situation that happened with virtual reality. With help of various cameras and satellites we can almost record everything happening on earth. So if something happened then that thing can be saved on cloud storage and rest can be deleted after sometime. Now for example there was a bomb attack in London in a shop on oxford street. People would want to see what happened , how it happened and what’s happening there now? So they just have to wear virtual glasses and they can go and relive the moment without getting hurt . This same technology can be used to attend concert , attending speeches or sports event etc. Basically it can take you anywhere in the world with the capability of experiencing the past current and future.