Thanks for your views and insights. It only makes sense for them to go that way. In fact, a sub-editor friend of mine just asked me which blogging software to use.

It is beginning to get brighter in the media universe, both social media and mainstream.

Agree with you on the lack of professional bloggers here. You are probably one of the few who belong to that category, and of course Siva, Kevin, Ben, and Daryl Tay.

Thanks for the encouragement. Yeah, I think the lack of truly credible alternative sources have affected the voices of citizen “journalists” here. While we do have some almost full-time bloggers, their role is more in entertaining people with their lives as opposed to reporting on the latest updates and developments.

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http://singaporedaily.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/sg-daily-23-jan-2008/#comment-938

Are you talking abt this? Or is it another work posted somewhere else that can never be discovered.

Fantastic. I am glad to hear ST has finally relented to the logic. This proposition was once advanced by Darkness very strongly. The people who seem to write very wordy essays. The article is floating around somewhere in the net. However, the gist of it is, he believes instead of the MSM fighting blogosphere. It makes more sense if they pursue a strategy of “constructive engagement.” He went on to cite the example, this was what the music industry failed to do when the internet first started to rip music. There is also a very bizarre comparison with tanks and why he believe quantity is superior to quality. He seems to be saying that is there is a critical flaw in the MSM, they believe quality is king, but they seem to discount quantity is a form of quantity. There are complex math models, I do not understand, but a friend of mine who is a mathematician claimed they contain serious flaws, as they are not complete.

His comaprison with the music industry. I found very revealing,m he said the failure of the music industry to contructive engage the internet not only ended up with loss of market share but eventually the whole music industry hollowed out. The said article is quite cheem and verbose. It also contains alot of theories which are quite dubious as they seem homespun, but if one has the patience to read it to the end. The recommendations are profound and the case compelling. As the author claims to have successfully used it to change what he called the mental demographics of certain gaming forums. It ends with a bang by claim not only will it bring added direction and a competitive scope to our Singapore blogo community, but it will also infuse it with added diversity and vibrancy.

As an academic who is very much interested in this area. I also welcome this. Thanks for writing this article, it was very educational.

Tan Zee Lin