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Intro to Singapore’s Socio-Political Blogosphere

Posted by intellisg on July 17, 2007

theorycast.26 :: Intro to Singapore’s Socio-Political Blogosphere
Show Guest: Bernard Leong • Location: Geek Terminal • Show Length: 20min

Bernard Leong of SingaporeAngle shows us how we can get involved in
Singapore’s socio-political blogosphere. If you notice the markers on
the video timeline, those indicate additional comments and clickable
links to things we mentioned in the interview.

There’s also a link to a directory of socio-political bloggers
compiled by my social media students earlier this year. Their
assignment involved each of them “adopting a local political blogger”.

See http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1761

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Home, Where My Singapore Is.

Posted by intellisg on July 17, 2007

I am a Singaporean, a title conferred by where I was born, in a time when borders were highly consistent even during general elections.

Singapore was my home for 20+ years, including the first formative phase. Then, I stepped out to discover a much bigger world with fewer rules and much more chaos than the orderly home I knew. And so began my second formative phase.

I drifted from one city to another, fellow countrymen come and go – some went on drifting and some instinctively returned to Singapore, their home.

Someone asked, “where really is home in your heart?” Read the rest of this entry »

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