So what does a creative person do? Or rather when would you call a person creative? What is the qualifying criteria? The simplest answer would be someone who creates content. But what I observe around myself is that there are more channels than content. In fact, channel as a resource is unlimited now. And what happens when resource tends to infinity? Efficiency approaches zero!
From my own example, I have an email address on every possible free mail hosting service. Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, LikedIn, Flickr, Picassa, Photobucket ...the list is endless but I have an account in all these places (and yes, Blogger!). Where I have failed miserably, is creating worthwhile content. Neither do I write much email (personal 1 to 1) to people, nor do I receive much of them. All my mailboxes are flooded with spam and forwards from people that they have not put any heart into. Channels have become fads and we keep moving from one to the other. But we are not adding any value to these channels before moving on. Most of us are just crowd there.
On another note, most of the content seems to be coming from the west. Games, photographs, Videos, posts...the good ones are mostly from outside India. Have we Indians become mere consumers? Both material and intellectual kinds?
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Coming to the assertion that most of the content is coming from the west - well, I would say this is an over-generalization. India and Indians do generate lots of content - photos, videos, blogs. There are fields where we are lagging (games, for instance), but otherwise we are doing pretty good.
Time for you to start following the right people :P