All posts for the month July, 2006

Forbidded?

Looks like the Straits Times Interactive needs to employ a native English writer as an editor. BTW, the Flash video ‘vodcast’ should be called ‘streamingvideocast’. True vodcasts come with RSS feeds (and are downloadable). Adrian informed me that the Sunday Times featured my blog URL in an article that was sub-headed Thinking Men Who Blog. [...]

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by acroamatic on July 30, 2006 • Permalink

Posted in Media Watch, Musings

Posted by acroamatic on July 30, 2006

http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/07/forbidded/

A minority among the minority

Mr Wang brought up something I’ve been thinking about for a while seems to have removed his post. Google cached it. Bloggers are like Eurasians in Singapore. A minority among the minority. In fact, I think there are more Eurasians in Singapore than people who read local blogs of note. Very simple litmus test. If [...]

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by acroamatic on July 27, 2006 • Permalink

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Posted by acroamatic on July 27, 2006

http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/07/a-minority-among-the-minority/

That was quick

Nothing to do with me, of course. Just a few days after I suggested the implementation of more rigourous service standards, the Public Transport Council releases New Service Standards for Basic Bus Services [pdf]. While it’s an improvement, I’d like to see that these standards are openly displayed and easily accessible. Also, there need to [...]

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by acroamatic on July 27, 2006 • Permalink

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Posted by acroamatic on July 27, 2006

http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/07/that-was-quick/

Time to benchmark against World Class standards?

Screenshot from Channelnewsasia: Monday, 24 July 2006 Straits Times Forum page letter: Thursday, 20 July 2006 Bus rationalisation done to benefit commuters I REFER to the article, ‘Save our buses, please’ (The Sunday Times, July 16). The article highlighted that some commuters face a longer travel time as a result of the removal or re-routing [...]

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by acroamatic on July 24, 2006 • Permalink

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Posted by acroamatic on July 24, 2006

http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/07/time-to-benchmark-against-world-class-standards/