Sin­ga­pore­ans, it is time to pod­cast your views to mark this National Day

I KNOW it’s a lit­tle way from Aug 9, but my friends and I stum­bled upon the idea of mak­ing use of pod­casts (which, as I’ve pre­vi­ously explained, are audio files stored and dis­trib­uted via the Inter­net), to create […]

‘Hack­ers’ use RSS to sati­ate their appetites for news-on-demand

I’VE writ­ten about RSS feeds and how blog­gers use them to “syn­di­cate” their con­tent for read­ers, who don’t have to actu­ally visit their sites to get their updates.

I’d attempt to explain RSS (which stands for Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion), but I think it’s bet­ter left to […]

Cor­po­ra­tions are cash­ing in on celebri­ties as blog­gers – but does it work?

IF you’re won­der­ing what Patri­cia Mok’s been up to since she left Jack Neo’s sta­ble of comic actors, check out her blog, “shop­ping diva” (shopaholicpatmok.blogspot.com), where she talks about her shop­ping expe­ri­ences at malls around Sin­ga­pore as well as in […]

DIY real­ity videos made with free online tools the rage among netizens

HOSTING video files on the Inter­net is not a new con­cept, and you can find a vari­ety of ser­vices — both free and paid — to store and share your video clips. Two of the most pop­u­lar are YouTube (

After­thoughts and com­ments by Neti­zens about the election

WITH the dust still set­tling from Saturday’s polls, check out the post-election quips from our bloggers.

On the still-brewing James Gomez saga, blog­ger “becon­fused” (beconfused.com) won­dered whether it would be the end of the Work­ers’ Party member’s career.

“If the PAP are aggres­sive enough, […]

… and onto the Web – how GP teach­ers engage students

AT the blog “The Gen­eral Paper” (generalpaper.wordpress.com), Vic­to­ria Junior Col­lege (www.vjc.moe.edu.sg) teacher Hoe Gim Yau points stu­dents to Inter­net arti­cles rel­e­vant to the A level Gen­eral Paper (GP) sub­ject, telling them that […]