Month: May 2005

  • Satellite of love

    One of the reasons why people have been saying that the Singapore blogosphere has a ‘sense of community’ is that we all work and play very close to each other. We’re only inches apart, most days. Here’s a satellite image of part of the Singapore Central Business District (like those Google Maps), and I’ve marked…

  • They really mean it when they say ‘this is the late news’

    For bloggers who kenah asked to take down more than 10 posts Over at our regional (and some say almost global) news network, a story broke yesterday about A-asterix-STAR sending a warning letter to a student. On Wednesday, Channel NewsAsia broke a story about how the Singapore student, who is pursuing his Masters degree in…

  • I am a weenner!

    I’m a poster boy for Reservist duty! Whaddya know? They ran my dulce et decorum est pro patria mori story on the National Servicemen’s website (MIW – Mindef Internet World). Last month, I submitted one of my old posts from here as an entry in a contest organized by them. I was hoping for a…

  • Straits Times does Tomorrow.sg

    A flurry of emails and phone calls and the press room at Tomorrow.sg has been buzzing. Yes. Two weeks after launch and Tomorrow’s scored it’s first press engagement. A very funny photoshoot took place at Boat Quay earlier this evening, where the ST photographer made mr brown, myself (representing the Editors at Large) and Adrian…

  • More MSM (Main Stream Media)

    Some CNA producer thought it’d be a good idea to use a self-confessed (no need lah) technophobe to host a show about technology, presumably so that it’d be easy on tech-illiterate viewers. But then they got to see this on Monday night’s show about blogs and podcasting, so I don’t know how easy it was.…