I wrote about joining social networks a month back. Tips were given in it. While the net has sprung up more such sites, there are some which will work for your blogs and some that don’t due to the nature of the blog and the site itself. I have joined Technorati, Ping.sg, Stumbleupon, Friendster, Multiply, Flixster, among many others.
Why I brought this up again is because of the interest in such sites. The newspapers (printed media) has been reporting sites that have gained popularity from bloggers. Recently, the founder of Ping.sg has been interviewed. However, as in past cases, U-zyn has been mis-quoted on things that was not said in his blog. Perhaps a case of looking the wrong places or misunderstanding from attempting to read his blog.
As usual, the only bloggers that are always mentioned are Mr Brown, Mr Miyagi and Xiaxue. So, in the whole of Singapore, only 3 bloggers are prominent? It feels insulting but didn’t I read somewhere that there is a rising number of local blogs? It’s rare to find that they managed to print one’s post accurately.
Here’s a few I found.
- The Design Language Blog - This guy sure is artistic. Caricatures and clay motion.
- Bounce Back to Life - Comic strip depicting the lives in Singapore.
- Scrapbook Juice - All about scrapbooking and sale of scrapbooking kits.
- Beautiful Singapore - This photoblog shows Singapore through the eyes of the lens.
- thoo2 - Hungry Pretty Monster - Food reviews in Chinese.
- Passing Sights - A blogger who posts English and Chinese.
Was uzyn misquoted? where?
@DK
He didn’t even mention anything about blind dating sites.
Alot of times newspapers doesnt reflect exactly what the interviewee is saying because of editing. When I was interviewed by straits times for secondlife, when I saw the article, it wasnt 100% accurate either, but the article was fine
@rinaz
Glad to know that your interview article turned out find
Our myopic media’s lack of knowledge of blogging and Singaporean bloggers shown through by their constant reporting of the 3 bloggers mentioned in your post. I’ve come across so many other blogs authored by Singaporean which are great blogs in their own right, by never got the chance to get media publicity.
I’ve joined Technorati, Stumble Upon, MyBlogLog, MyBlogCatalog, among many others.
Bounce Back to Life is nice. Thanks for the nice find
@betshopboy
Perhaps the censorship could be at work too. The media can’t just print anything that is exciting (read, too controversial). That would create a huge uproar. See what happened to Tomorrow.sg the other time? It got sued.
Hi Wishbone
It’s common knowledge our media is too “controlled”, we always score very lowly in Global Press Freedom index.
Remember Mr Brown’s story n TODAY’s column being “shoot”? That was a classic example.
@betshopboy
I still remember that. I was thinking, wow, what was it that they say? Was it to show that tolerance level was higher? Till now, despite that article’s incident, they still mention him in any news that are related to blogging and him not being involved at all. -_-’
Hi Wishbone,
Thanks for featuring my blog, is my pleasure to be featured here.
@thoo2
Hopefully, it’ll bring the hungry people to your blog