From Mr. Wang's post, two bloggers have responded to his New Blogger Challenge
Garuda: http://itsalonglongtime.blogspot.com
Eugene: http://whatonearth.wordpress.com
Vince Liu: http://blog.vinceliu.com
Anibodi also posted a link to his new blog on mine, sharing his thoughts on the recent National Day Rally:
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/anibodi
Even as Molly is often strongly opinionated, she shall be hypocritical and pretend to be neutral. Molly does not want to say that the above blogs are any good or any bad. As far as she is concerned, it is good as long as readers can judge a blog entry for what it is worth. Reading, she hopes, is not an activity whereby one's own affinities are affirmed but an activity whereby one is prompted to reflect upon one's own affinities and affiliations without losing a sense of self.
Are you a new socio-political blogger? Are you simply a blogger who has only one "socio-political" entry out of 5000 entries? Are you a reader who knows of an interesting "socio-political" blog or blog entry? Post a comment for some publicity.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Singapore Reader, The Singaporean Reader
This is not a blog aggregator or a "Best Reads of the Day" blog. This blog can serve several functions in the long run:
1. A place where new so-called socio-political bloggers can get some publicity. It is probably ironic to use a new blog to give bloggers publicity. I hope, however, that it would help at the initial stages to post links to this blog at my own blog.
Additionally, a blogger doesn't have to consistently write socio-political commentary to get a link here. If you blog like Xiaxue most of the time, but you simply have one post that rants about politics or one post that addresses socio-political issue, it is also possible to put a link here by posting a comment if you want to get read.
The mandatory disclaimer: Blogs or blog entries will be publicized as long as I don't have very serious objections to the views. E.g. if you write a post advocating jihad, I'm not going to publicize the blog entry. On the other hand, I am not endorsing any blog entries or blogs that are publicized here. Here, publicity is just a matter of telling people that something exists.
2. An archive of links to old entries in Singaporean blogs. As "socio-political" blogging in Singapore grows older, older (and even retired) bloggers might have accumulated well-written entries that newer blog readers might not have read. Without purporting to be an authoritative voice on which entries are worth reading, I will set up a section for these posts and readers can suggest blog entries that they consider to be of long-term relevance by posting a comment in this blog.
Possible themes:
Education (Singligh, bilingualism, streaming, etc)
Free Expression/Human Rights
Gender: GLBTS (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Straight)
Ministerial Salaries
Money: Annuities, CPF, GST hikes, Public Assistance, Poverty
National Service
3. If there are any events that can be publicized, ridiculed, boycotted or whatnot maybe they can be posted here. E.g. if you are organizing a pink picnic and you want to let people know, maybe you can post a comment here.
1. A place where new so-called socio-political bloggers can get some publicity. It is probably ironic to use a new blog to give bloggers publicity. I hope, however, that it would help at the initial stages to post links to this blog at my own blog.
Additionally, a blogger doesn't have to consistently write socio-political commentary to get a link here. If you blog like Xiaxue most of the time, but you simply have one post that rants about politics or one post that addresses socio-political issue, it is also possible to put a link here by posting a comment if you want to get read.
The mandatory disclaimer: Blogs or blog entries will be publicized as long as I don't have very serious objections to the views. E.g. if you write a post advocating jihad, I'm not going to publicize the blog entry. On the other hand, I am not endorsing any blog entries or blogs that are publicized here. Here, publicity is just a matter of telling people that something exists.
2. An archive of links to old entries in Singaporean blogs. As "socio-political" blogging in Singapore grows older, older (and even retired) bloggers might have accumulated well-written entries that newer blog readers might not have read. Without purporting to be an authoritative voice on which entries are worth reading, I will set up a section for these posts and readers can suggest blog entries that they consider to be of long-term relevance by posting a comment in this blog.
Possible themes:
Education (Singligh, bilingualism, streaming, etc)
Free Expression/Human Rights
Gender: GLBTS (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Straight)
Ministerial Salaries
Money: Annuities, CPF, GST hikes, Public Assistance, Poverty
National Service
3. If there are any events that can be publicized, ridiculed, boycotted or whatnot maybe they can be posted here. E.g. if you are organizing a pink picnic and you want to let people know, maybe you can post a comment here.
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