I wonder why they want to know my date of birth!!! Probably Stomp will send me birthday greetings or a little present on my birthday!???? No need lah.... paiseh.

The site is not very user friendly. A bit messy ... very "luan".... until you see "stars". For old aunties like me, it is very hard on the eyes lah. Aquazero is right.... Stomp must improve on its presentation and layout or it is what you call portal in computer language?

Stomp.sg scores major points for ugly.

Trackback from Justin Lee: Straits Times Stomp.com.sg Launches! A Short Review:

Justin did a first review of the subject earlier...

Trackback from Yawning Bread: Stomping its way to.... where?:

A better commentary from Yawning Bread, with detail analysis...

Trackback from Justin Lee: Stomp.com.sg 120k hits and counting!:

The 2nd one from Justin...

Trackback from Justin Lee: Singapore Void Deck Beatup Video Clip: The Blindspot of Stomp.com.sg?:

The 3rd one....

Trackback from Bjorn Lee: A Digg Clone Named Netscape and New-Age Journalism:

That commentary's last paragraph said something about STOMP...

Trackback from Singapore Entrepreneurs: New Media vs Old Media:

" Even as we are talking here, I really wonder whether it will ever substitute or be subsumed by the old media."...

Trackback from themediaslut:

“My children blog and it’s a new phenomenon,” said Han Fook Kwang, editor for The Straits Times

“We have to accept to it, get use to it and be part of it.”...

Trackback from Adrian Lee: Rant - Stomp is kinda lame:

Another commentary.......

Trackback from Mr Miyagi:

Another commentary...

Trackback from tinkertailor: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation:

In Singapore, we don’t seem to have learnt anything from that experiment (assuming that we even know about it)....

Trackback from Mr Wang bakes good karma:

Even Mr Wang weighs into the subject......

Trackback from The Students' Notebook:

"Fellow Comrades! I mean, Bloggers!"...

Trackback from Digital Bytes:

Where have all the designers gone?...

Stomp reminds me of Project Eyeball... the "first integrated print and cyberspace news magazine" that promises to give voice to opinions from the cyberspace and non mainstream groups, as well as the exploration of off-limits and alternative issues.

Project Eyeball : The paper that sunk due to overpricing and its inability to live up to its hype and promise; the paper that got axed together with most of the team.

How long will it take for history to repeat itself?

Just thinking aloud, who are they trying to STOMP on or out? Or is it just a convenient coincidence?

How long do you think this will last?

My feel is? Like a firefly...

I give it 6 months. Or 1 month after the car has been given away.

Whichever is the sooner.

Trackback from Born on Ninth of August - How to Turn Your Podcast into a Radio Station :

You can't just pull together a couple of bloggers, throw in some forums, flood the site with advertisements and links back to the press's website and then call this mess a blog. ...

Trackback from brennan.sg: Mainstream Attacks:

I’ve come to realise that the local media is increasingly following the trend of blogging and podcasting to further their reach in the community....

Trackback from Capitalist Infidel:

Censored Blogs?...

Trackback from Ah Guan:

everywhere got the “75557″, i tot is a new lar sap chatline number. peecher all so big, and got sexy sexy girls summore. later i see more closely hor, den i noe is the big newspaper company do one. orrh……. den cannot be chatline liao....

Ah Guan ah, lu jin cute leh. Lu teoh bay biao boh? 7557 ....oo chut lai hor! Boh teoh, tan lucky draw lah. Maybe can strike, you know. Nothing to write in Stomp, also write lah. Try your luck mah. The more you write, the more got chance to strike lah. Write anything also can. $75,557.00!!! Guarantee can strike one. Be a kaypo. Get your camera ready and shoot, shoot, shoot...... Bus burning, MRT Station got rain, Ah Beng and Ah Gong punching each other in Chinatown, Mata tui chat (Police chasing robber), etc. etc. Your photos in Stomp, you will become even more famous than Xia Xue lah.

But don't forget hor! Cheng Hu ai chai lu ay seh jit. (Date of birth) Pun ai lu ay IC number. Sio sim hor. Lang kong maybe en..en... entrapment leh! Ti Kong cheok hock lu. God bless you.

Got on stomp for the first time today. and it's my last time too.

highly unappealing glorified forum.

Trackback from Molly Meek: Another Day in Singapore, Another Joke:

The logic behind such a response to Stomp notwithstanding, the response itself reflects the deep cynicism that will inevitably arise against any move by the government or its machinery to, well, become more open and inclusive....

I viewed STOMP site and got lost in its interwinding threads of a spider web. and for some good measure it also STINKs.

there is no need to be harsh. everyone needs to start somewhere, and its apparent the spin doctors have been working overtime on this
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`By 1999, we would like to achieve the 1984 per capita income of Switzerland`

STOMP, of course, will no doubt be another flop. Their main objective looks like to reap local and other news from the people - FOR FREE.

Don't be a fool by sending them news and those silly, insignificant potshots of daily life. They serve very little purpose. The forums repeat discussions of what have been going on for years in other major, alive-and-kicking ones.

The media has its role to play so let them garner their own news. Why work for them for free? That said, local media never reports the more important news - that of the alternative genre. Bookmark these if you will:

- http://www.rense.com/
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.com

By the way, it looks like the people at ST hardly do anything right. The last mistake was to impose fees on their online local news portal.

My oh my, did the viewership take a hard hit.

Such fools they are.

One final comment - the Ah Pek who designed the STOMP website should be shot and hung by the balls following.

It's pure sacrilege against web design.