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I don't normally blog about my personal life, and especially not my Saturdays, but yesterday was amazingly serendipitous that I had to share. Almost like living the above movie (just without the romance).Yesterday I made an old friend. I did it by...showing up at her boyfriend's house warming party;accidentally making life difficult for her the previous day (without knowing …
Singapore builds a self-powered induction mouse.
I never thought I'd say this, but I think I've hit the brick wall of information overload. I feel that I'm learning a lot less because I'm consuming more; and all this thanks to Web 2.0 apps and the social media.I remember as recent as 5 years back, the Internet was simply made up of pull medium (the world wide web) and push medium (email, chat, IM). Navigating the web was a …
The bunch of us Media Socialists have discussed and felt it was a good initiative to start a wiki-based Singapore social media directory with the aim of consolidating an organic resource of everyone's (in Singapore) social media platforms. Off the main page of the wiki: This wiki aims to be a Directory to Social Media Users in Singapore (not strictly limited to Singaporeans …
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Singapore is trying to get the online locals to vote for their favourite TV commercial to be used for their 30th anniversary marketing campaign.It looks as if they've taken a page from the social media especially YouTube. They appear to have the right goal in mind with getting as much social participation as they can in hopes of a viral campaign. …
When I was in journalism school they taught us that a journalist's quotes have to be attributed to credible and if possible authoritative persons with full disclosure, including age, to be noted in the story except in extremely sensitive (criminal) situations.Today I read a Channel NewsAsia story online with quotes that went like:"I think its okay to work till 65 because in …
I've been mucking around with my tumblelog hosted on Tumblr this weekend. If you're new to this, a tumblelog is basically...a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but …
I just got back from Siam Reap, Cambodia this morning. Went on a short visit to the ancient temples of Angkor Wat and the many others in the same area. But since this blog isn't about my travels, let me just quickly note a few Internet "trends" I noticed while walking the tourist town of Siam Reap:Internet access is a service for tourists, like a post office of sorts. I …
Since Facebook just launched a possible Twitter rival that integrates right into its social network, it suddenly dawned upon me that Microsoft could do something very similar that would immediately create a user base many times larger than Twitter's without the users themselves realising the change.Let me explain, since Microsoft Messenger 6 (I think) users have been able to …
Was just watching CSI:NY and the intro showed a typical public service call for a missing person on TV. This got me thinking about the effectiveness of mass media in our social media age. With so much content (on and offline), and just as many channels to consume them by, how does anyone convey a ...
CNA and TODAY ran a really interesting transcript of Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew speaking with US columnist Tom Plate and new media expert Jeffrey Cole.What I got out of it was: Print is getting old and slow, online is fast and overflowing. Newspapers got to do deep with analytics and web needs services like digg.The only thing I don't get is, why even bother …
The next Web 2.0 startup that's worth owning or buying would be the one that finds the cure for the information overload created by the social media.If necessity is the mother of all inventions, then the solution to help us pick only the ripe fruit and consume it would be her next child.It's the natural trend already with social gatekeeping services such as Google News, Digg, …
Just when I thought that anti-spam engines were doing a great job weeding out those obviously detestable spam peddling medication, and fake watches, good legitimate marketeers take their place and get past the trusted filters.As you can see in the below screen capture, I've put up with mumtazz.com for a while, not that I subscribed to it in the first place, but even after I …
Here's an interesting article on ZDnet Asia today. The basic gist of it is...IT and PR must also buddy up if companies are to be prepared for crisis management.This is so true, and I'm glad to see such an article on a publication targeted at business and technical folks. In fact, it'll be best if it reaches the business continuity / disaster recovery people too.Although the …
Walang Bato', or 'Without a Kidney' in Tagalog, is an independent documentary project about body parts sales in the Philippines. We're still in the midst of production.If you have any related information/stories , do drop us a mail at colouredsky@gmail.com. We're definitely open to funding opportunities.A digital media kit is also available upon request.This is from my …
My lovely colleagues gave me a cupcake, a card, and a present. So nice of them. The technology team bought me lunch too. I don't understand why people like to take birthdays off, there's so much fun in the office!
In the PR business we sometimes use fancy terms such as "Share of Voice" to denote the amount of media coverage a client gets. This is often done in direct comparison against what the competition gets and this information is terribly helpful for us in PR to find out how effective our work has been. This is often also taken as a measure of influence.But now I'm beginning to …
Saw this first on Dan Li's blog. I like how commoncraft is making a good effort to dumb down Web 2.0.
Was at BlogOut 2007 on Thursday evening at the Geek Terminal. I wouldn't dare say it was a blogger event, but more a geek convention with most in attendance happening to be bloggers.Between song, food, and drink, serious discussion was had in breakout tables. The table I was at focused on the topic of corporate blogging. I was kinda forced to join it by Bernard who wanted "PR …
Ben McConnell from Church of the Consumer Blog wrote today in reply to Thom Brodeur's comment in a Chicago Tribune article around "cultivating bloggers" that:Bloggers are not traditional media, so the last thing a PR person should do is create another column on a spreadsheet that includes in future email blasts.I've been pondering this same issue while trying to help multiple …
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