Deadpoet’s Cave

Fortunately for bloggers here, the 27-member committee, which is made up of government officials, industry leaders and academics who advise the MDA on Internet and new-media-related content issues, concluded that blogs were simply ‘old wine in new wine bottles’ - no different from websites or Web forums where people can post what they do or think.

Chua Hian Hou, Bloggers don’t need to register after all,
Straits Times, 7 July 2006.

For once, I’m glad that they don’t get blogs, blogging and the concept of the read-write web.

You see, even if blogs are “old wine in new wine bottles”, the difference lies in delivery. In the past, you had to go to the bottle shop. Now, the wine comes to you. And you can get to know people who are interested in the same type of wine a lot faster and easier. It’s a big leap, but it’s hard to see the difference because, hey, it’s just the same old wine.

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