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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Mr Brown is now yesterday’s news.
I don’t think the TODAY editors did it out of their own volition.
Maybe it was pre-emptive measure to prevent further fallout.
Or perhaps it was some directive - implicit or explicit - from up above. And I don’t mean God.
Whatever the excuse reason, it’s sad and pathetic.
Light touch online = Heavy touch offline? You tell me, MICA.
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Thanks for your articles, Mr Brown.
I’ve been reading your stuff since the time your blog was just a website. When podcasting was unheard of and your regular Singapore National Education educated us all.
I’m sure you’ll continue your good work online.
Your levity is much needed in this day and age.
Your ‘I am Singaporean’ project is more patriotic than any of the official efforts at drumming up national pride.
We’re all with you.
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Published on Wednesday, 5 July 2006 .
Louis Reard introduced the world to… the bikini.
And beaches were never the same again.
Yes, the wonderful things I learn through subscribing to The History Channel’s This Day in History feed.
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… also must give solution.
Mr Brown is taken to task for pointing out price increases in Today.
It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in Singapore to champion issues, or campaign for or against the Government. If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass media to undermine the Government’s standing with the electorate, then he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan player in politics.
K BHAVANI
Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts
- Mr Brown is a journalist? I thought he was a mere blogger. A non-anonymous one at that. (And you wonder why some bloggers want to remain anonymous.)
- There’s only black and white? I don’t see how his article makes him a partisan player in politics. Just because you publicly disagree with the government on issues doesn’t make you a ‘partisan player’. I’d take partisan to mean that he is actively supporting and promoting a particular other political party. That would be partisan.
We are entitled to our views. But don’t we dare circulate our views, especially if our views “encourage cynicism and despondency”.
Be happy, people! Be Shiny, Happy People! (Apologies to R.E.M.) Singapura, oh Singapura. Pretty flowers bloom for you and meeeeeee…
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