Not a bad idea, but is there a purpose to all this? Would be good to see a summary of arguments for and against the casino, culled from all the blog entries. Otherwise this will turn into a glorified extension of what the traditional media has already covered, with people repeating the same arguments over and over again.

My apologies for not making the intention of the collation more explicit. (I intend to post more detailed versions of what follows eventually.)

By bringing together into one place a comprehensive range of positions to form a knowledge base (a chronologically sorted reference guide, if you will), I hope to make available to blog readers positions and arguments they are not necessarily familiar with.

To make this happen, the list has to bring together posts by bloggers that do not necessarily read or link each other on a regular basis, because, e.g., of the differences in their points of view (not even that they disagree, but simply that they don't belong in the same blogging circles). The list need not be exhaustive; but it ought to be comprehensive of the range of arguments and positions represented: for, against, moral, economic, pragmatic, religious, etc. I'm trying hard to do this by actively seeking out posts from various underrepresented points of view.

I do not think that traditional media has really been all that comprehensive or fair in it's coverage of the various points of view.

Note, however, that this is like getting the archives ready--so that the prospective historian or investigators can get down to the actual investigative work itself. It is not the investigative work itself.

The next and as yet unfinished step to this preparatory work would be the categorizing of the entries according to their positions. This will serve something of the functions that are shared by a summary.

In a nutshell, I do not have extravagant hopes for what this project is supposed to be able to achieve. In fact, I am not even optimistic that I will be able to complete the crucial step of categorizing before other pressing concerns call me away from blogging. But at the very least, I hope to lay something of a groundwork for others who are interested in the issues.

Short version: think of it as the dirty work of compiling an index (or, more ambitiously, a concordance) to a bunch of ancient manuscripts...it's exactly just that, dirty, ground laying work.

strangeknight: In the spirit of tomorrow.sg, there's no need for purpose. But knowing HC, he'll come up with one sooner or later. Occupational hazard!

Don say like tat lah...really got purpose one leh... :)

I'm positive about that. Wish them good luck. Hope they'll manage it. Such a big Megapolise.