the irritating singaporean blogger
By Pat Law™ • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: The Digital StrategistThe old bird of the local blogosphere has spoken, and I swear I can smell his irritation through his #000000 font size 12px words from where I am. Cowboy Caleb is one seasoned blogger marinated with a recipe of authority, authenticity and personality that is hard to find these days. He keeps himself faceless mostly, unlike camwhoring bloggers we know too well, and that grants him access to full liberty to say what he wants, in his trademarked pitch of rebellion.
That is, however, not to say that Cowboy Caleb is one without tact, like Franco Louis and his butt implants obsession. I know this because approving abortions disturb him, racist remarks angers him and well, he respected my privacy enough to remove that particular picture of me going down on a giant female toilet sign upon my request.
There is truth in what Cowboy Caleb has said about local blogs decomposing from bad to awful. While I don’t agree to everything he has said, I do agree that to a certain degree, bloggers’ escalating obsession with fame and fortune, often caused by mercenary blog advertising companies, has resulted in the decline in quality of local blogs. Which is quite a pity considering that we haven’t had any local blog morph into an international name just yet.
While the old bird has a list on how you can be an irritating Singaporean blogger, please allow me to share with you what I think this country needs.
1. Think tanks
got brain? | image courtesy of asymptotia.com
I don’t want to hear about how you went for a bloody manicure as much as I want to hear about why you think women are obsessed with nails.
I don’t want to hear about your latest date with some KGB-looking Russian intern in your office as much as I do want to hear about why you think Putin’s a great fuck leader.
I don’t want to hear about you attending some blogger outreach (literally “oh, so I met so and so and so and so and so and so” – do you think I give a flying fuck?) as much as I want to hear about why you think blogger outreach programmes are important for the infancy stage we are at within the local Social Media realm. Or maybe, if you have the balls, why bloggers are seemingly ugly.
I want to see local bloggers write better, and that does not mean the implementation of Queen’s English whilst abandoning the colloquial beauty of Singlish (seriously, how do you fake an American accent and pronounce Sydney, “Sit-knee”?). I want to see better flow of thoughts, I want to see beautifully crafted words worthy of a scribble in my notebook, and I want to see local bloggers blog with a higher purpose. A higher purpose? Is that possible? I’m hoping so. Cowboy Caleb, Popagandhi, Mr. Brown and Mr. Miyagi, please don’t quit on me.
2. Blog Audit
Through the page sources of some blogs (well done, Claudia and nadnut), I’ve noticed the implementation of the free web tracking application Google Analytics. Good. Keep it going if you have already implemented it. Start if you have not.
Before I show you the money, you show me your numbers. I’ll keep this bit short for now. Something’s brewing at the back of my mind, and I cannot wait to pimp it out.
3. Balls
balls | image courtesy of closer to fine
I find some corporate and government blogs amusing. What the fuck is the point of blogging if clearly, you’re just making an announcement (I’m being kind by not calling it a self-whoring promotion) and not an opinion? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of blogging in the first place? Isn’t blogging about sharing of thought, and as Cowboy Caleb mentioned, connecting with the audience? Mate, go back to your godawful corporate newsletter that nobody reads.
4. Niche blogs
I’m guilty as charged for this. Perhaps we are too young and unsophisticated a market, but we don’t have enough niche blogs as much as we do with mass-centric ones. I write about social media as much as I do about art, architecture, fashion, homosexuality, photography and whatnot. I don’t stick to a common category because I blog what I am.
If writers of magazines apply the same devil-may-care attitude, what do you think will happen? Everyone starts looking like I-S magazine. It takes a lot of conviction I guess, for a blogger to stick to a common topic. Well, hopefully that’d come soon.
5. A slap across the face
Wake up. You’re a blogger, you’re not Mother Theresa. You don’t have the charm of Gore Vidal. You certainly don’t look like Angelina Jolie. Perhaps, without your blog, you won’t even have friends. Wake up and get real, aight?
How about you guys? What do you think this little red dot needs in the blogosphere?
Pat Law™ is a Digital Strategist who, in her time in the Adland, has marketed a range of global brands including adidas, Cadbury Schweppes, Chrysler, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Johnnie Walker, L’Oréal, and Royal Salute. Pat also writes for iSh, LOTL International, and Singapore Architect.
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Hmm. How about we just take blogging at face value? Personally I’ve done nothing much with mine except for chronicling my thoughts, struggles, observations, albeit a little less frequently nowadays.
I’ve done my rounds with advertisements, but felt distracted from what my blog just really is – an online diary (very passe, I know, but that’s what I take it to be…) and I really felt better after removing that Nuffnang space (at least I don’t have to agonize over when the next ad’s gonna come in).
I guess there’s no real dos and don’ts with blogging, unless you are trying to achieve something out of it – like sharing your political views like Yawning Bread, or dispensing travel tips like Popagandhi.
If a blogger doesn’t have any purpose except to echo what others have said elsewhere, and to show off the so-and-so they’ve met, then let them be what they really are – people with no personality!
Let’s see:
–> Blogs needs more pictures … the majority of them carry shit all content. The only ones worth going to are the ones with lot of pictures … of hot girls. Haha …
–> The blogsphere needs more scandals … it’s too fucking boring these days. It needs more backstabbing and more blogger wars,
I am sure it will benefit everyone if the above two points would come to frution. Hehe …
Actually, blogs that fulfill all five of your criteria already exist, but are simply ignored by the vast majority of Singaporean readers. More people enjoy reading those “brainless” and narcissistic blogs that you claim to dislike, so they get thousands of dailly hits and tend to thrive.
On the other hand, writers who blog on more intellectual issues have practically no readership, so they eventually give up. You wouldn’t support these blogs (I don’t see even one of them on your blogroll), so how can you expect other people to do so?
Loong, perhaps we need our own Perez Hilton indeed, but hmmm, those couple of points you made honestly interest you that much? Excuse me while I take me boring ass outta here.
Lim Leng Hiong.
Wow, I sound like a nurse calling out a patient’s name at the clinic.
Anyway.
Thanks for your feedback. I’m keen to learn of these writers you spoke of, and their blogs. I won’t go as far as to say “you wouldn’t support these blogs” considering that I’m not even aware of them to begin with. I suppose when awareness is non-existent, one is therefore deprived of greater knowledge (or irritation, dependent on content).
So. Care to share? Let’s help promote the good stuff.
I agree with Leng Hiong, but it is the same world wide. There are tons of great blogs that write more than they market. That is the problem. The old adage of write good content the readers will come, does not work when there are billions of blogs to choose from. The writers give up cos they spend more time writing than marketing their blog and they lose their motivation when no one comes and comment. Successful blogging takes a whole lot more these days.
Sadly it is the mindless ranting and cam whoring that people like, we have to face it as at the end of the day blog reading falls somewhere between entertainment and information. I am looking forward to the day that blogs are treated seriously, but not until we shake off the awful ones.
Ms. Law, thank you for the opportunity to highlight some intellectual blogs.
As you mentioned in Point 4, it’s important to have a niche area – for science bloggers, our niches are in different fields of science.
It pains me to see the attrition rate of science blogs in Singapore, which is why I commented to your blog post. Their current status is indicated in the summary list below:
1. Dr. Lee Kum Tatt’s Blog (http://leekumtatt.blogspot.com/) – Chemistry, History of science in Singapore, life experiences.
This is a superb blog with details of Dr. Lee’s difficult years as a pioneer of science in Singapore, fighting bureaucracy and colonial attitudes.
Blog status: Dr. Lee passed away in June, blog stopped.
2. The Biology Refugia (http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/biorefugia/) – Conservation biology, biodiversity.
The oldest Singaporean science blog, started in May 2004 to showcase our beautiful and fragile natural environment in Singapore.
Blog status: Active
3. Fresh Brainz (http://www.freshbrainz.com) – Evolutionary biology, neuroscience, rational thinking.
My blog. I feature articles about science in Singapore, novel research news and pictures of bizarre animals.
Blog status: Active
4. Rat in the Lab (http://ratinthelab.wordpress.com/) – Physics, nanoscience.
Interesting research, science education and curious devices!
Blog status: Active
5. art.hropod (http://andygiger.com/blog/) – At the confluence of Art and Science.
Blog status: Not updated
6. Evo devo (http://evodevos.blogspot.com/) – Evolutionary developmental biology.
Blog status: Not updated
7. Singapore Snakes Blog (http://singaporesnakes.blogspot.com/) – Snakes, conservation biology.
Blog status: Not updated
Here are some solidly-written intellectual blogs in other fields.
Medicine/healthcare:
1. Angry Doc (http://angrydr.blogspot.com/) – Healthcare policy issues, pseudoscience and alternative medicine, life experiences.
Blog status: Pause
2. Vexillum II (http://edkieu.com/) – Dentistry, pseudoscience and alternative medicine, life experiences.
Blog status: Active
Local politics/law:
1. Diary of A Singaporean Mind (http://singaporemind.blogspot.com) – Socio-political issues, satire, irony.
Blog status: Active
2. la nausée (http://etrepoursoi.wordpress.com/) – Socio-political issues, law.
Blog status: Closed
I can guarantee that none of these bloggers will write a post about a manicure session.
Ms. Law, thank you for the opportunity to highlight some intellectual blogs.
As you mentioned in Point 4, it’s important to have a niche area – for science bloggers, our niches are in different fields of science. It pains me to see the attrition rate of science blogs in Singapore, which is why I commented to your blog post.
Their current status* is indicated in the summary list below:
1. Dr. Lee Kum Tatt’s Blog – Chemistry, History of science in Singapore, life experiences.
This is a superb blog with details of Dr. Lee’s difficult years as a pioneer of science in Singapore, fighting bureaucracy and colonial attitudes.
Blog status: Dr. Lee passed away in June, blog stopped.
2. The Biology Refugia – Conservation biology, biodiversity.
This is the oldest Singaporean science blog, started in May 2004 to showcase our beautiful and fragile natural environment in Singapore.
Blog status: Active
3. Fresh Brainz – Evolutionary biology, neuroscience, rational thinking.
My blog. I feature articles about science in Singapore, novel research news and pictures of bizarre animals.
Blog status: Active
4. Rat In The Lab – Physics, nanoscience, science education.
Interesting research and curious devices!
Blog status: Active
5. art.hropod – At the confluence of Art and Science.
Blog status: Not updated
6. Evo devo – Evolutionary developmental biology.
Blog status: Not updated
7. Singapore Snakes Blog – Snakes, conservation biology.
Blog status: Not updated
Here are some solidly-written intellectual blogs in other fields.
Medicine/healthcare:
1. Angry Doc – Healthcare policy issues, pseudoscience and alternative medicine, life experiences.
Blog status: Pause
2. Vexillum II – Dentistry, pseudoscience and alternative medicine, life experiences.
Blog status: Active
Local politics/law:
1. Diary of A Singaporean Mind – Socio-political issues, satire, irony.
Blog status: Active
2. la nausée – Socio-political issues, law.
Blog status: Closed
I can guarantee that none of these bloggers will write a post about a manicure session.
* I’ve removed all the URLs so that this comment can go through.
DT says:
“I agree with Leng Hiong, but it is the same world wide. There are tons of great blogs that write more than they market. That is the problem. The old adage of write good content the readers will come, does not work when there are billions of blogs to choose from. The writers give up cos they spend more time writing than marketing their blog and they lose their motivation when no one comes and comment.”
Yes, that’s right. A properly researched and solidly argued blog article requires time, effort and training to produce, but are unlikely to draw any more than a tiny niche audience. Not everyone is insane enough to do so much work for nothing, and for a sustained period of time too.
In contrast, an lifestyle post featuring pics of sexy women, celebrity gossip, vulgarities and backstabbing (like Loong said) can be quickly produced with minimal effort but yet draw thousands of readers a day, inviting hundreds of frenzied comments.
For most serious writers, it’s deeply discouraging and disillusioning to be beaten flat by unemployed, undereducated and underdressed dyevs who can barely write.
Not surprising that blogs which fulfill Ms. Law’s requirements tend to be short-lived.
This is the dynamics of the blogosphere. The overwhelming majority of blog readers don’t want intellectual stimulation – they want sex, scandal and entertainment. That’s why I don’t begrudge the “brainless” and narcissistic blogs for their huge success, because they cater to the simple reality of the lowest common denominator.
“Successful blogging takes a whole lot more these days.”
Not really, as you mentioned earlier, if a blogger has great mastery over internet marketing tools, she/he can promote the blog very easily and drive huge numbers of hits on posts containing no real content. There are many people who purport to know all these tricks and shortcuts, so that they can avoid the old-fashioned way of spending years to create content and slowly build up a readership.
Most of the bloggers I highlighted in my earlier comment did not (or refused to) adopt such strategies.
That’s probably the main reason why Ms. Law has never heard of them.
You call cowboy caleb himself as a good blogger? This guy just cut and paste from all over the place and put it in his blog and you call that piece of art? Mind you sure have low standard. Why bother to define what is blogging when it is make up of human of different behaviour? It is a mixed of everything a society reflecting in in the internet world.
Again, you’ll have to remember, it’s all user generated content.
i.e. It depends on the user to generate it. So no matter what they, the user, generates, as long as there’s an audience ready to read such content and give feedback, then it’s all fine and dandy in the world.
If the blog content isn’t to your content, stop reading it.
In this day and age of a Web 2.0 medium, no one, especially anyone, no matter how “senior” they may be, should have the right to dictate how frequent or what a blogger chooses to write (or what they write for that matter), which is why I pointed out that Cowboy Caleb’s post of two “good” bloggers are crap and I wouldn’t even bother reading them.
Wah Pats, an inspiring post that has made me want to start blogging again.
For all of five minutes.
Until I realised I don’t want to get slammed by you in your next post when you read all about that lovely day I had at the spa, complete with pictures.
Not because he’s a friend so I am defending him… but when he writes, he does exudes a certain personality which is quite unlike some others we know.
I guess that worked for him as a blogger.
Lim Leng Hiong: I sense a sneer in your tone. Have you perhaps considered that the reason Pat “wouldn’t support these blogs” is because they appeal to a very niche audience (I am presuming scientists/ academics in related fields) that Pat herself is not a part of?
Why should she “support” a blog which has no direct relevance to her and her job just because it is an “intellectual” blog, much less include it on her blogroll?
And I suspect “the main reason why (sic) Ms. Law has never heard of them” is not because the illustrious bloggers you mentioned “did not… adopt such strategies” but because their blogs are simply not on a subject matter that is pertinent to her.
Whilst I am sure that all the blogs you mentioned are indeed highly intellectual and fulfill all Pat’s criteria of what makes a good blog, I just don’t see the relevance.
Please don’t be snide.
Here’s a bit of trivia for everyone:
- There were 60 odd blogs by Singaporeans in 2001.
- They were all on a list called “SG Blogs”.
- Project Eyeball ran an article on this blogging thing.
- As there were few mobile phones with camera functions then, most of the content on these blogs were mainly personal reflections (read: words) of these bloggers.
- Some of them were of the mundane stuff (online diaries) but there were quite a few gems on the list.
- The list was discontinued a few years later when almost everyone with an internet connection hopped on this blogging bandwagon.
- Mr Brown, whom the “world” and his dog say, is the “grandfather of blogs”, was never on that list.
I have since made a distinction between writers who self-publish via their blogs and bloggers.
Flamintear says:
“And I suspect “the main reason why (sic) Ms. Law has never heard of them” is not because the illustrious bloggers you mentioned “did not… adopt such strategies” but because their blogs are simply not on a subject matter that is pertinent to her.”
I believe that science literacy is an integral part of intellectual life. You may feel that I’m being snide (actually more disillusioned) but when you say that science blogs (and medical/sociopolitical/law blogs) are “simply not on a subject matter that is pertinent to her”, that is very arrogant view indeed. I am sure that Ms. Law would not dismiss niche blogs as “impertinent” simply because they are not in her professional field.
“Whilst I am sure that all the blogs you mentioned are indeed highly intellectual and fulfill all Pat’s criteria of what makes a good blog, I just don’t see the relevance. ”
In this post, Ms. Law lamented about the “decomposing” state of the Singapore blogosphere and discusses her criteria for blogs that she feels our country needs. I point out that such blogs already exist, some of them for many years, but the dynamics of the blogosphere exact a strong selection pressure against them. Since I am a science writer, I highlighted some strong blogs in science and related fields. I am sure that there are many good blogs in other niche areas that I’m not aware of; all you need to do is to search for them.
As for my opinion about the state of the blogosphere, Nerdgeek said it well:
“In this day and age of a Web 2.0 medium, no one, especially anyone, no matter how “senior” they may be, should have the right to dictate how frequent or what a blogger chooses to write (or what they write for that matter), which is why I pointed out that Cowboy Caleb’s post of two “good” bloggers are crap and I wouldn’t even bother reading them.”
got balls but no prick is useless. i mean, what do you do with balls? make fishball soup? people need to be pricked. that’s the power of procreation blogging man! to feel the force in the thrust and pounding of coordinated words cumulating in an orgiastic cacophony of climatic discharge.
Hi DT,
There is truth in what your thoughts on insufficient marketing of great content which thus lead to eventual closure caused predominantly by the lack of demand. Or rather, visible demand. We cannot discount the fact that a good number of people who are older, are often spectators in the Social Media realm, and not participants. If the content of one’s blog caters generally to the older crowd (I will make the general assumption that majority of the population under the age of 18 care less for the Game Theory), then I do expect the comments gathered to be less.
I see the 4Ps framework applicable to the blogosphere. Personally, I believe the most important “P” is Product. Or in our context, the content of our blog. Promotion, a sibling of Product, is almost as important to the success of a blog, don’t you think? Alas, not all of us are equipped with the ability to promote; some overdo it (I met one who won’t stop announcing her blog address at a blogger’s event), some underdo it and some, well, skip it altogether. Deliberate or not, now that’s another subject matter worthy of a separate article altogether.
Like you, I look forward to the day where blogs are treated seriously. To do so, we’d need to be able to identify the good from the bad, and hopefully, have the good shine through. On the other hand, I don’t mind the awful ones really. I think you need them to exist, in order to convince the target audience why a good blog’s good. Sweet is not sweet without the bitter, no?
Thanks for your input, DT.
Hi Lim Leng Hiong,
I thank you again, for your generous feedback to this post. I appreciate your promotion of what I’ll herewith classify as Smart Blogs, for easier reference. Science/medical/socio-political/law blogs seems to dreary for a wet evening.
Humans often, save for the Intellectual, often embody themselves in matters of Relevance. In this instance, you have shared Smart Blogs which are relevant to your profession. Vis-à-vis, my ignorance of the blogs you have mentioned fell out of my circle of Relevance. To Flamintear’s point, I do agree your statement, “You wouldn’t support these blogs (I don’t see even one of them on your blogroll)” came across pretty judgemental, or snide even. Just because I have been unaware of the Smart Blogs does not mean I will not support them. And the substantiation by means of them not appearing on my Blogroll is hardly a valid one, don’t you think?
If not… then well… I do have a question for you.
You have Xiaxue on your Blogroll. Does it mean you find her blog intellectually stimulating or that you belong to “the simple reality of the lowest common denominator”? I’m asking because of the confusion caused by your earlier comment:
“The overwhelming majority of blog readers don’t want intellectual stimulation – they want sex, scandal and entertainment. That’s why I don’t begrudge the “brainless” and narcissistic blogs for their huge success, because they cater to the simple reality of the lowest common denominator.”
I’ll be thrilled to hear of your views pertaining to this question.
Jo, somehow, replying you hasn’t quite tempt me much, but I will for the sheer amusement.
1. I have not called Cowboy Caleb a good blogger. I referred him as an old bird, seasoned with authority, authenticity and personality of rarity in present times, a rebel and one with tact.
2. Piece of art? Can you please locate that line for me cos I sure as hell can’t find it in my article?
You have just illustrated the perfect example of how one chooses to read selectively and interpret in the most biased manner possible on what has been said.
Sadly, that’s the same way how religions have been used as an excuse for war. We read and interpret according to our narrow-mindedness.
nerdgeek,
I do agree to what you have said. One man’s poison is another’s meat. Except the meat’s simply not to my liking of late. And hence my article, from a macro perspective if I may add.
Thanks for the little trivia, DW. I don’t see the logic in discontinuing the list as a result of escalated supply of blogs though. Care to explain?
Hello say already,
I don’t quite know what to make of your comment. For someone who have used such a beautiful phrase, “oordinated words cumulating in an orgiastic cacophony of climatic discharge”, “got balls but no prick is useless” seems misplaced. You might be a little too philosophical for me. Alas, such is the deprivation caused by my stupidity!
Hi Pat Law,
Firstly, the list was started by a girl who was an undergraduate then and it was hosted on her website. As the list grew, it became difficult and time consuming for one person to maintain, e.g., to track which blogs were discontinued and to handle the increasing number of requests from new bloggers to have their blogs listed. (I am paraphrasing what she said when she announced her decision to discontinue this list.)
Regards
D W
Pat Law says,
“You have Xiaxue on your Blogroll. Does it mean you find her blog intellectually stimulating or that you belong to “the simple reality of the lowest common denominator”? I’m asking because of the confusion caused by your earlier comment:
“The overwhelming majority of blog readers don’t want intellectual stimulation – they want sex, scandal and entertainment. That’s why I don’t begrudge the “brainless” and narcissistic blogs for their huge success, because they cater to the simple reality of the lowest common denominator.”"
Yes, that is what I said. There is no confusion here, as I have indicated that I don’t begrudge these blogs for their success, nor do I have any issue with the reality that blog readers prefer sex and entertainment. As Nerdgeek noted, the main point here is that no one should dictate to any blogger what to write or how to write. I apologise if I come across as being judgement, as it was a reciprocal response to the strong words in your article.
As for your question about Xiaxue, here is the summary of my blogroll in broad categories:
Singapore science = 9
Clearthought Singapore = 5
Basic sciences = 31
Sociology = 6
Rationality = 14
Mathematics = 1
Sociopolitical = 2
Woman rights = 1
Fine art = 1
Online diary = 10
Entertainment = 8
This list clearly shows that the majority of the blogs (66 of 88) on my blogroll are about science and rationality. Thus a representative blog should be a science blog.
However, you only focused on the “online diary” category, and of the ten blogs there, you selectively picked Xiaxue – ignoring all the other representative blogs.
See how “invisible” all these science blogs are? Once again we have been ignored – perhaps now you can understand my disappointment.
To answer your question, I picked Xiaxue for the same sort of reason that I picked d bImBo WiF D tWiSt – their blogs are fun to read, and I repeat again that I am not the one who has issues with fun blogs which fulfill none of your criteria.
You have expressed your opinion about the state of the Singaporean blogosphere, and I have said my piece.
I thank you for giving me the opportunity to post my comments, and wish everyone here a pleasant week ahead.
My original response is stuck somewhere in the comment system. I thank Ms. Law for letting me post the previous comments, and wish everyone a pleasant week ahead.
Hi Pat,
I believe you hit it on the nail. I am continued to be surprised that with all this hype in new media blah blah, that traditional rules of businesses still apply, such as the 4 P’s of marketing. Don’t forget that elusive 5th P for people! But I digress.
My point of my comment is that getting that right mix for a successful blog is damn hard, and I will continue to say so, despite Leng Hiong’s comment that I said how SEO experts can generate traffic to their empty blogs. Which BTW I never made. Furthermore, his comments about those vapid blogs are quite incorrect. Perez Hilton, Gawker, and even Go Fug Yourself have some of the damn best written copy I have ever read.
I often like to draw parallels with the number of successful blogs with the number of successful companies. Not everyone can have a really successful blog/company, and to do so requires really the right mix.
But then again we can debate endless when we start to define success? Please keep in touch through the usual channels.
There are all types – why the need for policing and regulating?
Also, what does it say when xx’s readership is probably higher than yours? That this country is not ready for the think tanks and your other pre-requisites? Or that she is better at engaging her audience? I agree to a certain extent that blogs with copy LikE tHiS desperately need a dose of content though. Honestly for the rest of us, don’t like it, don’t read. Best solution.
All of us have a narcissistic side, like it or not. For Mr Brown, he can blog about his family, whom others may or may not hive two hoots about. Nadnut blogs about her manicures and hair extensions – alongside other adventures in a wildly popular blog. Consider the audience – why are some blogs so wildly popular and some, even with great content – not?
Hi Lim Leng Hiong,
Two words. Civil Servant.
Hmmm…
Hey DT,
Oh yes, how could I have forgotten the 5th P, People! Tsk. Shame on me.
The right mix for ANYTHING is hard to achieve, don’t you think? Humans will continue, until the end of time, to struggle with balance. I personally think it’s impossible to be perfectly optimal.
Isn’t it interesting how some people like to quote another’s name for credibility, and hence put words in people’s mouths? Happens all the time. I’m particularly critical towards Leng Hiong here because he is supposed to be a science writer, as he claimed. Shouldn’t he be living and breathing the truth, alongside with amplified sensitivity towards words by nature?
Perez Hilton’s my guilty pleasure, in between reading scope of work contracts and tackling clients’ burning demands. It actually takes wit to write the way he does, even if its completely non-beneficial to the brain.
I do appreciate your feedback here, DT. See you around in the digital world.
Hi Rachel,
Sorry I lost you there, but who spoke of policing and regulation?
True to “don’t like, don’t read” but at the same time, I was speaking on what I’d like to see more. You realise there is a big difference between both. I have not argued, or for that matter, insist on what should be classified as “great content”. I don’t think it is within my jurisdiction to say so.
“Isn’t it interesting how some people like to quote another’s name for credibility, and hence put words in people’s mouths? Happens all the time. I’m particularly critical Leng Hiong here because he is supposed to be a science writer, as he claimed. Shouldn’t he be living and breathing the truth, alongside with amplified sensitivity towards words by nature?”
Hmm…
Thanks for your criticism, on closer reading I have misunderstood many things about your article, and completely missed the point. I have also misunderstood DT. It has been a good dose of reality for me; I will learn from my mistake.
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