As regards TODAY

As my for­mer RSM used to say, “With balls that big, how do you walk?”

Bravo!

Why you quit…

Oh well.. Good luck to you la.

Maybe in 5–10 years time, you and mrbrown should go for pol­i­tics in Sin­ga­pore, I believe we will vote for u

Like some com­mented, it is easy for peo­ple to say “quit lah, to sup­port brown” when it is not THEIR JOBS and MONEY on the line. But you did it and I admire you for your tenac­ity. When dreams and real­ity clash, you chose the for­mer and for that,you have my respect. I can’t dare dare say I will have the balls to do the same if I were you.

Cheers
anonn

Where shld I begin? I’ve been fol­low­ing the devel­op­ments of the whole deba­cle on cross­ing frm the online world to the offline one and the sub­se­quent deci­sion of yours to call it quits at Today.

Saw that there have been at least 101 com­ments to your post and even more at MB (though trawl­ing through some of em, sick­ens me that the whole issue gets con­vu­lated to other twisted sub­jects) How­ever, that said, that is the beauty of the Inter­net. It attracts his sup­port­ers and some detrac­tors. There’s an ‘equaliser’ present and this essen­tially means ‘a bal­anc­ing mech­a­nism’ that some­how man­ages to present a myraid of views/opinions.

I wish local politi­cians would have a mind­set change — to under­stand that the Inter­net is not some mon­ster that would cause tur­moil, dis­or­der and anar­chy. Far from it.

Trust me, the ‘bal­anc­ing’ effect and nature of the Inter­net would save their asses. As much as they can­not believe it.

Stop labelling the Inter­net as ‘new media’ or ‘alter­na­tive media’. The con­no­ta­tion is that it is unfami­lar ter­rain that could mis­con­strue some into think­ing that it has neg­a­tive attrib­utes that are poten­tially sub­ver­sive; to the pop­u­lace and the country.

It is a type of media, no doubt, with its own set of idio­syn­crasies, advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages (just like other forms). Engage it. And by that, please dont give us oxy­moronic phrases such as, and to quote,

“At the end of the day, we are all in search of solu­tions. By work­ing together, by engag­ing in hon­est, con­struc­tive dia­logue, we can do so.….….”

I dont noe how else more hon­est, frank and refresh­ing the col­umn by MB was and how he was engaged con­struc­tively? Enough abt him, how have we been engaged? By shov­ing a harsh response in our faces and telling us, to lap it up? Or by state­ments made by politi­cians con­stantly jus­ti­fy­ing the need to demar­cate and dif­fer­en­ti­ate because naive lit­tle Sin­ga­pore­ans might become more ‘heated’ than ‘enlightened’?

As a polit­i­can puts it, “But don’t, in the name of humour, dis­tort or aggra­vate on the emo­tional level. That sort of dis­course does not gen­er­ate solu­tions. It gen­er­ates more heat than light.”

It does not gen­er­ate solu­tions directly. It gen­er­ates think­ing Sin­ga­pore­ans to have a height­ened sense of aware­ness. It gen­er­ate engage­ment. It kills apa­thy. It gen­er­ates care and thought for the future of our coun­try. With all of this, hope­fully, solu­tions would be gen­er­ated. And I believe it will.

Sorry for the long post. Ram­bled and couldnt stop

hmm.. inter­est­ing. wish­ing you two the best in your future endeav­our.

You did good.

do you all notice one thing.….this michael tan is the only one who wit­nessed irtpc post in Mr Brown being deleted.…note irtpc as the broth­er­hood said was an agent.…one coincident.…the other is when­ever, this Michael Tan appears.…the broth­er­hood post.…what is the prob­a­bil­ity of two of these events hap­pen­ing at the same time.

Michael I do not wish to be rude, bc really I am a very polite girl, but can you pls tell us what your rela­tion­ship with the broth­er­hood is?

Kudos to you!

Well done and good luck.

mr miyagi!

you will sur­vive and pros­per, what­ever you do.

my pub­lic support!

Jia you and keep on blog­ging man!

Mr Miyagi dis­plays the mark of a true friend. Stand­ing up for what is right. Dar­ing to stand up.
I salute you guys. Faster than I will salute an offi­cer.
You are the broth­ers we will read­ily put our­selves in harm’s way for. We need more men with char­ac­ter like you.

I actu­ally want to be the dis­senter here.

There are 2 ways of look­ing at it. First is that Miyagi has given up his right to speak for the blog­ging com­mu­nity in the main­stream media. Where he could have sol­diered on and kept on fight­ing. Or at least, as some­body put it, “when you have a voice, whether it is in busi­ness, in pol­i­tics, in acad­e­mia, that voice is the source of your power. You always have to be the one telling the story.” When they cut you down to 1, you’ll still be able to reach out to oth­ers on a plat­form beyond those few of us who are surfers. To jump with­out being pushed — now the only peo­ple who will ever talk about us on MSM are the MSM reporters them­selves. aren’t you help­ing us get mar­gin­alised further?

The other way of look­ing at it is that if Miyagi hadn’t jumped, he would have been pushed. If this hap­pened, then peo­ple will look at it dif­fer­ently. Some will say he passed up a chance to make a dig­ni­fied exit. Some will say he’s brave because he didn’t give up but fought to the bit­ter end.

Jump­ing off in protest because you feel some injus­tice has been done — how does that fur­ther the cause of the revolution?

Thx for fight­ing the good fight on behalf of other Sin­ga­porean. All the best for all future endeav­ours.

I have read some neg­a­tive com­ments on both Mr Brown and Miyagi’s blog. I seems like many sup­port­ers here actu­ally try to defend both Mr Brown and Miyagi by respond­ing to these people.

I see this differently:

(i) The fact that these peo­ple are here because the mes­sages sent out threaten the entity which they sup­port. In another word, hit­ting them where it hurts. These peo­ple are here only when they con­sider you as a for­mi­da­ble force to recon with. So it would be great if you have a whole bunch of them here, may be a lit­tle irri­tat­ing for a while, but it is like mos­qui­tos bite. Fur­ther more, it increase the num­ber of comments.

(ii) The behav­iours of such peo­ple are close to huli­gan and very like a ter­ror­ist. The more they work in this fash­ion will only prove to the world the type of peo­ple who will sup­port the pappies.

With these 2 rea­sons, I see the need for more of these peo­ple to appear here.

i duno wat to say but… wow.

*hugz*

kudos to you.

teacher girl, I am known in Singapore’s tech forums, for exam­ple, Xtreme­place, Carma, Hard­ware­zone and VR-zone. Out­side of it I do not ven­ture, except Brown’s blog. My life on the net has been since ARPA Bit­net, and if you search enough, it is prob­a­bly one of the most inter­net exposed lives you could find. So there — I have noth­ing which I can hide any­more, as a result of cer­tain deci­sions made over the last 15 years.

I have no rela­tion­ship with the so called ‘broth­er­hood’ — I have not heard about them, and would not even pay atten­tion to their posts, if they did not imply my rela­tion­ship with them.

But I can com­ment that they are a hilar­i­ous mix of good per­cep­tion smeared by a Star­ship Trooper fan­tasy. My spec­u­la­tion is that they are a small group of english-speaking-background uni­ver­sity grad­u­ates, led by a charis­matic leader who types these com­ments (as the posts’ writ­ing style are sim­i­lar), and if you give them enough atten­tion they will post (under a Thor anonymizer, I pre­sume) in other blogs in the future.

I say group, because a sin­gle per­son with­out dis­cus­sion with his group, would not have come up with such pre­cise per­cep­tion of the sit­u­a­tion. In fact, their per­cep­tion has made mine clearer. I say uni­ver­sity grad­u­ate, because they still have the refresh­ing fancy of mil­i­tary Sci-Fi, and english-speaking-background because a major­ity of this segment’s geeks and nerds seem to bury their faces in sci-fi and fan­tasy gen­res. And they are mod­er­ates. As you can obvi­ously see. They are rooted in the estab­lish­ment but have enough band­width for alter­nate views, and yet see the other per­spec­tive and the impli­ca­tions of what’s happening.

They would do good, of course, it is unfor­tu­nate that they couch their per­cep­tions in an enve­lope not suit­able for gen­eral consumption.

*pat pat*

Yea… I’m link­ing you on my site later today.
Quit­ting smok­ing is easy. My friend did it hun­dreds of times.

A feel­ing of con­tent­ment washes over me as I watch Sin­ga­pore­ans stick­ing it to the Man… ah yes… good work bro.

Michael Tan, the broth­er­hood have also com­m­mit­ted a crim­i­nal act by the mere threat to hack mr miyagi’s site. The gov­ern­ment takes a very seri­ous view of this and so does the blog­ging com­mu­nity. I for one hope swift action will be taken. The blo­gos­phere does not need these destruc­tive hack­ers regard­less of how we might feel of their opinions.