Daily SG: 17 Apr 2009
Takeover of AWARE
- Fresh Brainz: Update: Josie Lau Is AWARE’s New President
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Statement from the New AWARE Team
- Illusio: AWARE: a civil society primer
- Blackilocks Events: Aware of Aware
- Mathia Lee: AWARE AGM 2009 : Clarifications
- Salt * Wet * Fish: AWAREness in our midst
- Majulah!: The New Adventures of Josie and the Pussycats
- Singapore Life and Times: Toasted
- The Wayang Party: Should the old guard of AWARE just accept defeat and bow out gracefully?
- TOC: DBS “disappointed” with Josie Lau’s disregard for staff Code of Conduct
- The Wayang Party: Double standards of DBS: why staff is allowed to join PAP as MP but not AWARE as Council member?
- geraldgiam.sg: Staff-in-confidence matters should be kept that way, DBS
- Musings: Josie and DBS’s HR Policy
- The Wayang Party: More questions raised over PAP MP Dr Ong Seh Hong’s explanation of the $60,000 Ren Ci loan and GIC housing loan
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Josie Lau Meng Lee
Public Order Bill
- Singapore Social Activist: The Myth of the Violent Singaporean Protestor
- Yawning Bread: Reinforcing containment
- geraldgiam.sg: A government out of order [Corrected. Thanks Gerald]
Charity/Church Leaders Get Rich r Die Tryin
- The Wayang Party: $60,000 loan from Ren Ci to PAP MP Ong Seh Hong sparked furore in cyberspace
We Don’t Need No Regulation
- The Kent Ridge Common: The dissenting civil servant and the online media
Daily Discourse
- Singaporean Skeptic: Even PRC students get better treatment than Singaporean students in the USA!
- Civic Advocator: Taser stun guns at APEC Singapore?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Surprise! Singapore works with countries serious about knowledge transfer
Life, the universe and everything
- ringisei: If a resident made a complaint but not in writing
- Gimme Some Truth!: Meet Singapore’s new mascot for the Asian Youth Games!
- AngryAngMo: The 5 Best Flea Markets In Singapore
- Singapore Sports Fan: Pole vaulter Sean Lim breaks first record of National Schools Track and Field Championships [Thanks SSF]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Never Heard Before VIEWS on SINGAPORE by Taiwanese. Interesting.
- Webs@Work: Do Pulitzer Prizes Have A Future?
Now Showing
- Balderdash: Members Only, a play I watched last night
Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Event: Managing Your Business On A Shoestring Budget – 29 Apr
April 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
This is the latest brotherhood write up about AWARE.
http://wayangparty.com/?p=7814
April 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I realize this is causing many readers alot of problems; so I will ask the EKUNABA host master there to open up an aggregation site. This will hopefully solve this problem once and for all.
It will mean more work, but at least we no longer need to depend on anyone in the future.
SD
April 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I would really appreciate it; if some of the BP readers who are willing to volunteer to help us can run this project for us.
This way at least when Teo Ser luck & gang comes into blogosphere at least we will have 10 to 20 sites pointing the way what to read, instead of just one site that points to ONLY a few usual sites all the time.
We should not leave it to the Singapore Daily to do all the donkey work. That is not fair, as it is too much work for one team. They have done a great job, but even they have line of sight limits. So it is best if we all chip in and help them in our little way, thereby keeping the internet diverse and varied. Otherwise, we will end up only reading one or two sites all the time.
I think this will be a good development for all of us; but I need it to a volunteer effort as we are very short of manpower.
Thanks
SD
April 17th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
SD, tell us what BP needs,
- that each blogger site provide a link to other sites?
- send emails to all Singaporeans in our list of contacts, directing them to the various sites?
April 17th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
We like to help SD. But we dont know where to start with the Ekunaba people. Can you show the way? Then I am sure more people will be willing to run this new aggregation project.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Great job, Singapore Daily! Keep it up.
[Thanks Seelan. Our humble contribution to the cause here pale in comparison to what you guys are doing.]
April 17th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
“We like to help SD. But we dont know where to start with the Ekunaba people.”
You leave that part to me; Ekunaba folk dont trust people easily; they only deal face to face. Fortunately, we have a permanent liaison officer stationed there, so the relationship is excellent. We can get things moving there in just a matter of hours.
Soojenn,
The problem does not reside with the aggregators like Singaporedaily; it is a problem that site owners themselves need to grapple with; BP doesn’t have a problem with readership finding our stuff. As when one reader reads our stuff; he or she will post in here and maybe 100 other sites and point the way for the rest to seek us out; one reason why our readers have this culture is because traditionally we have always been blocked, boycotted and marginalized – so this is the skill they have all had to learn.
But what about the ordinary Joe who writes something real interesting but doesn’t even the network to let the world know about it? That is the problem, we need to deal with.
I need to think about this further and discuss it with the others.
This is the problem, we have to get on top of. And time is not really on our side. Otherwise as time goes by instead of all of us reading broadly and widely, all we will end up doing is recreating an online version of the Strait Times. Where everyone reads only one or two sites.
And we all know that is no bloody good.
SD
April 17th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
My feel is this. Whatever, we will ultimately build, needs to move away from whole idea of the power of one to perhaps embracing the idea of the many; it doesn’t pay for us to put all our eggs into just one or two baskets.
It makes far more sense to break it up into smaller divisions; for example, if lets say each small blog carries 3 to 5 similar essays as the one they are writing about. Then ten blogs can even cummulatively aggregate forty over articles.
But I am not an expert in this area: I need to talk to the folk in the ASDF to find out how to do this.
It has to be simple and yet effective. I need time to work on this. All I know is the current system is not working very well.
SD
April 17th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
There is no need to be coy or shy about it; it is really like getting to know a girl. If you dont make the first move by the second date; then you run the risk of spending alot of money and not getting anything. You have no one to blame but your miserable self, if you end up with nothing – bc believe or not she expect you to make a move – so you better get shuffling.
By the same token, if you want your essay to be aggregated in the Singaporedaily; just make sure you inform the webmaster here prior to his listing. Did you do that?
Make it VERY clear to him that you have written something worthy and want to share it with the known whole wide world; if you dont even have the courage to demand the right to be heard; then you have no business running a blog.
Why are beggars rich? They are wealthy because they dont have ANY hang ups about asking; so ask; if you ask and it is not given; then it is very simple SD, you take and that is the end of that.
But you dont plan to take before you ask. Do you understand me!
Keep it simple; there is no need for another aggregation site.
Next time, I want all brotherhood post to be forwarded here prior to listing.
I want the webmaster to be informed in clear and unambigious terms. We do our part, he will have to do his – keep it simple.
Darkness 2009
April 17th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
You really think life is so simple, you aggregate people read, you dont aggregate no one reads – you must be fucking kidding me.
I know about 90 ways to get over that wall.
And if you didnt prepare for it then you will be dust. Its as simple as that.
Darkness 2009
April 18th, 2009 at 12:03 am
“By the same token, if you want your essay to be aggregated in the Singaporedaily; just make sure you inform the webmaster here prior to his listing. Did you do that?”
I read lots of sites for interest… Singaporedaily does a good job to aggregate a lot of the interesting blogs.. we can forward or inform the Singaporedaily of these articles as Darkness has suggested when we come across it, or if we have written a good article.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Email us or leave a comment if you’ve written something or read something you think others should read.
:)
April 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Good Singaporedaily. We understand each other then. And why is this so important?
Because I have just received very reliable intelligence that only 5 people in TOC are making 95% of the post entries there – yes, the age of sock puppetering has come true.
And you need to ask yourself why? Why do they need to create the impression everyone is going there to talk? What are they trying to do?
To paraphrase: why do they need to go down to TOC and sell you and I the illusion, there is a real discourse there?
You see, that can only heighten the value of real conversations – that is why every blog post needs to be aggregated.
Good, we understand each other. There is no need to start another aggregation site.
I am happy.
Darkness 2009
April 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I have written something about Ah Ho and Kishore.
Its here.
http://wayangparty.com/?p=8060
I will appreciate it, if you could run it tmr.
Many Thanks
Darkness 2009
April 21st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
You see I know exactly what is happening; have you ever considered?
We may have a man inside there.
I want you to think about that.
Always remember, all warfare is based on deception; you cannot win without the element of surprise.
Darkness 2009
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
This is the only known clip all of us have of darkness.
I think it is at least 4 years old, snapped while he was on board the LEDP starcruiser a few hours before the biggest cyber war in history took place, called the Ascension wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYHvt-bkOd4
Even this was smuggled out, it seems. I think he is reviewing the battle plans.
SD, do you by any chance have a newer version?
One thing, I cant figure it out is in the real world he is already such a mystery, but in the virtual, he seems to be a bigger mystery to all of us!