Tag: The Banned Wagon
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TODAY: What’s all the podding fuss about?
Meta: It was a busy news day yesterday, at least for mrbrown and myself, when newsrooms in Singapore and abroad began working on the Balaji-No-Podcast statement story. Good thing I’ve got free incoming calls on my mobile. I also found it funny that I had to tell some reporters to keep it short because I…
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Malaysia Boh, leh…
In KL over the weekend, I might have been tempted to break the law by buying pirated DVDs from the many pirated DVD stalls in shopping malls. But as providence would have it, I was saved by the quick actions of someone who’d tipped off the vendors about an impending raid by the local constabulary.…
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PM Lee not in reverse gear during Videoblogging Week 2006
What? Misleading headline? Orh. Channel Newsasia taught me how to do that. I learn from the best, see? Podcasting is not banned! I say again, podcasting is not banned! All youse liberal western press mongrel types, stay! Heel! The Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Balaji Sadasivan, wasn’t quoted properly, I reckon, just…
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Promoting criminal activity should be criminal
No Invisible Man Allowed On Saturday, whispers were heard (damn loud lah, these whisperers), that some party organised by Fridae.com had been cancelled because the police had contacted the venue owners (MoS) and warned them that if the party had gone ahead, they’d ‘come to the club to shut the party down and take action…
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The Banned Wagon
It can be difficult living in a place where your personal life is governed by, well, just governed. And by personal life, I mean, things that you do in your private sphere that won’t harm other people, and by that, I mean, it follows that it wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, by any means, be a crime.…