Daily SG: 29 Nov 2010
Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Alternatives: What does “Freak Election Results” mean?
- The Temasek Review: Do the opposition parties have any alternative in ensuring Singapore’s survival, peace and prosperity?
- Civic Advocator: PM Lee hints of Singapore election date
- Singapore Notes: Brains Without Balls
- just rambling: VOTE FOR ME: Elections Posters in Singapore (1)
The Great Escape of Mas婆婆 [liang puopuo]
- Senang Diri: Enemy of the state: Security issues following Mas Selamat’s escape
- The Kent Ridge Common: Would you have done the same if Mas Selamat was your brother?
- VotingRp: The Reform Party Raises Questions and Calls for the Replacement of the ISA by Modern Anti-Terrorism Legislation
Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: MND vs NMP: Round 3
- The Temasek Review: Record household net worth in Singapore – Is it time to celebrate?
We are against capital punishment
- pressrun.net: Singapore down from 19th to 21st for judicial independence
- TOC: Vignes Mourthi – seven years on
Singapore is a free country. Free from chewing gum, free from Playboy, free from transparency, free from a free press, free from free speec…
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Singapore Talking
GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: S$230,000 you never knew you had
Re education
- EastCoastLife: S$10,000 for a Place in a Popular Primary School In Eastern Singapore
Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Rising cost of health care
National Service
- groundnotes: Our Home, Our Singapore, Our Army: My Boyfriend
Daily Discourse
- Senang Diri: The Yeonpyeong tension and what it means for Singapore’s security
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: National flag is for tying your hands
- ALVINOLOGY: Singaporeans flustered over our water polo boys’ swimming trunks?
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Seven Fundamental Changes Necessary For A Happier Singapore
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Walk The Public Service Talk: Render Help To Those In Need
- Kaffein-nated: I just don’t know where to start… smells fishy?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why we don’t buy the “explanations” of S’pore Inc
- FTP: Aware matures into adulthood
Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: Chords of a silent melody
- Open Contours: The Wall Outside
- Small steps for Social PR: Did Lenovo Singapore Foursquare campaign work at Sitex 2010?
Selected News Stories
- The Star: A compulsion for property
- NatGeo: Secrets of the Happiest Places on Earth
- Irrawaddy: Video of Ex-Spy Chief Baffles Burma Watchers
- Asia Sentinel: No Reason for Asia to Be Smug
- CNET: U.S. seizes sites linked to copyright infringement
- Big Shots: 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China [Large Pics]
A plug for the good folks at the Asia-Europe Foundation. Thanks Smita
About The Talk
As the global economy continues its recovery, there remains a need for effective global policy to address downside risks. The Asian countries were less affected by the international crisis. Yet, the question remains for Asia: What of the future, in a world where there is little prospect of growth in the large economies of the US and major European countries? Can Europe provide economic leadership for the future?
About The Speaker
Professor , writer, Honorary Member of theCouncil of State, Jacques Attali was the founder and the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993. He was Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991. Dr Attali is the President of PlaNet Finance, an international non-profit organisation that promotes microfinance institutions in some 80 countries. He was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in August 2007 to head the Commission for promoting French economic growth. Dr Attali has written some 50 books with over six million copies sold internationally. His works include essays on a wide range of subjects: mathematics, econometrics, music, biographies, and plays. He was named by the US Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the World.
The Ballroom, Level 3
Raffles Hotel 1 Beach Rd, Singapore 189673
13 Jan 2011 10:00am – 12:00pm
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November 29th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Is the global economy economy still in crisis? Just asking.Is this under measured response as well?
November 29th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Hello Smita
Do you happen to know whether this event is not covered under the restrictions of measured response. I don’t want to ruffle any feathers. I want to make friends not start off on the wrong footing. Many thanks.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Dear All,
Technically we are in de facto state of war with the current administrators of Singaporedaily. I believe they had a fall out with Darkness of the Brotherhood who once asked why not a single one of his essays that he wrote about Temasek Review was aggregated – according to Darkness he did not receive a satisfactory explanation from the Administrators of TR – as a consequence he unilaterally barred Singaporedaily from aggregating ALL brotherhood press feeds, that means technically we are in a state of war – I stress the word “technically,” that means whatever they forward will be automatically fall under the broad umbrella of a open and direct boycott and is not covered under the term Measured Response.
As I have mentioned to many of you – here and elsewhere, I have been working very hard to normalize relations between the Brotherhood and Singaporedaily – however everytime I raise this subject up in Primus; it is blocked by Darkness and his associates. As a result whenever I table this subject for discussion.
(a) We always run out of time.
(b) Someone moves a motion to dismiss it (usually last minute)
(c) Or we fail to meet the minimum stipulated number of people needed to carry a motion forward. As what they will do is stand up and walk right out of the session. This is sufficient excuse for the speaker of the house to consider the motion null and void.
I will try to raise the issue again.
Singaporedaddy (Internet liaison officer of the Brotherhood)
November 30th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
To the admin of the Singaporedaily,
In my experience the best way to manage someone like Darkness is to keep the channels of communication open 24/7 – this way information can go too and fro seamlessly – and this by itself will guarantee no room for misunderstandings to occur.
The problem is when you get 27 essays about temasek review previously known as Wayang Party being just set aside for no apparent reason – and not a single one is aggregated. Others however are aggregated. No explanations is provided as to how this decision was made or even what criteria was used. No consultation was even conducted to ensure that the reasons were clearly communicated to the brotherhood.
When you by design or inadvertently create those sort of blind areas – then you are really in trouble.
Bc the community who make up the brotherhood (and by community I am not referring to dotseng@wordpress.com – that is only 0.000001% of the real community will eventually ask why?
Pls understand, they do not give two hoots whether this is your blog or not, you have to understand, these are content producers – so they see it as their elemental right to ask, what are you doing? What is your agenda? Can you please share your plans with us? – when no answer is forthcoming, that’s when we misunderstandings like this occur.
And once we have these sort of misunderstandings it becomes virtually impossible to resolve them in a civilized and constructive manner – simply because they refuse to even talk to you.
So you end up aggregating TOC or TOC or TOC or TR or TR or TR and as for them, they go BP, BP and BP in their corner.
Tell me who wins? Not the reader, this I can assure you. What about you as an aggregator? Do you win? What about us as content producers?
No one wins, everyone loses. At the end of the day it gets darker, do you notice the quality of blogs these days are getting from bad to worse?
As I said, I shall try to help you. But let me be very clear, even then I do not think it is possible not to answer the questions about the 27 essays.
Singaporedaddy (Internet Liaison officer of the Brotherhood)
November 30th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I am sorry there was a typo I meant this: http://dotseng.wordpress
November 30th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Can I ask a question. Why didn’t Singaporedaily aggregate a single one of the 27 essays written by Darkness? What was the rational? Shouldn’t we the ones who should decide what is worth reading or not?
November 30th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
coming to think of it singaporedaily why did the brotherhood burn their relationship with you so easily? It seemed like they fucked u off without a care in the world? Why would that be so?
December 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/
You meant this site Liaison officer of the internet. Look I too would like to know whether it is ok to go for such a talk. Do come back to us over there or here.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:03 am
My personal view is it will be suicidal to try to make a case for why those 27 essays were not aggregated at all, forget it, too many questions, someone just made a bad call, whatever. Just move on. Forget the whole thing. And start form a clean page that is what 99% of brotherhood readers really desire. As for the singaporedaily aggregating Toc this and toc that and toc everything, that is like a man in a kiosk trying to fill more petrol into a tank that is already full so even I don’t understand what you are trying to prove here.
Instead of trying to get things done in Primus. Get things sorted out in the real world first SD, then after you have done this, go to Primus.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:13 am
However for real reconciliation to occur, you have to get Darkness to be less confrontational. You know what is the saddest thing, in our Internet today, no one can write as well as him, no one, TOC is not even half there, if Darkness turns it up full volume, they will all die, and the thing that no one can understand is if most essays written in TOC were aggregated, why not a single one of those 27 essays once written by Darkness. Even if you say, you do not agree with his assertion that wayang party is a govt owned and operated site, should this be left to the readers to decide? So by making a partisan decision not to aggregate it, what are you really trying to do? Now you know why no one ever post here except us. There is fear. And Darkness was right all along.
December 5th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I still think you all should let sleeping dogs lie. Its not worth stirring this shit up with Darkness. If all of you get it even 0.0001% wrong, he will find someone to blame. And it come very well be anyone of you. So its best if you just let sleeping dogs sleep on. As for this Measured Response thing, it will past in a few years, give it 5 years. This boycott of Singaporedaddy is already one year plus, so you are all looking at 3 years and a bit more that is all. I think its best to wait it out.
December 6th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Let us all calm down.
December 7th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Pls let us all calm down, I don’t mean to be disrespectful, pls understand I have always had the highest regard for the brotherhood press. I happen to think you people are quite remarkable given that you are not even linked, yet this does not seem to diminish either your creative energy or output. So I hope you will all remain calm.