December 14, 2009

I am a blogger in Singapore and I am NOT controlled by the government

Yuhui said:

This group was created in response to a comment by well known American blogger, Michael Arrington. In a blog entry, he claimed that Singaporean blogs are (largely) controlled by the government. [...] it is more likely that there are many more Singaporean blogs that are NOT controlled by the government [...].

Recommended by yuhui: "We need to educate people from around the world about the independence of our Singapore blogosphere!"

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Submitted by yuhui on December 13//2:49pm and published by tinkertailor :: 1 comment | 3883 reads | trackback

May 16, 2009

Aware president calls attacks on Siew Kum Hong “most foul and unfair”

Darren Boon said:

A Facebook group, ‘We Support Siew Kum Hong’, has been set up to support Mr Siew Kum Hong’s bid for a second term as a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP).

In a strong show of support for Mr Siew, the group, which was set up only yesterday, has 430 members so far, ballooning from 90 odd members to more than 400 members in a number of hours. The number is still on the increase.

Recommended by at82: "Those who support SKH can sign up for the facebook group."

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June 05, 2007

Ghost of Hoax?

Juni said:

Remember the BMT gathering photo that sparked a big hoohah on my tagboard? The one with the baby very high up in the background?

Apparently, my other BMT friend had the photographer take the same shot with another camera.

Wanna do a comparison?

Recommended by alvinism: "What do you think? Is the baby real?"

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May 14, 2005

Enter the Superblogs

Kevin said

What do Superblogs (like Boingboing, Huffington Post, or Tomorrow.sg) mean for the rest of us bloggers?

I see two immediate positive effects:
1) to popularize blogging to the masses
2) to highlight salient news & opinions

I also see two possibly weaker negative effects:
1) to polarize the blogosphere where the popular get more popular, the lesser known get even lesser known; works like in-groups or cliches
2) agenda setting through editorial gatekeeping

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[mb: mb: Read the interesting discussion Kevin and I had in his comments section, or click on the trackback linked to it]
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