HERE’S A FUNNY VIDEO REPLY to the excellent point that Estee (Geek Goddess) has been making while giving feedback on Nexus 2007 in her blog and later on the Nexus wiki: “Very disappointing at Nexus today. Lo and behold, as always at events of such nature, girls are totally under represented! I wish I could ...

WHICH ARE THE TOP BLOGS in Asia? How does one measure the success of a blog?In China, Ya, I Yee came up with a list of “Top 40 Chinese blogs” based on stats given by RSS reader Zhuaxia (ap …

AS OF 10 MARCH 2007, although Asian Internet penetration is only 10.7% of total Asian population (compared to 25% for the rest of the world), Asian Internet users already comprises 35.8% of world internet population, according to Internet World Stats (based on data compiled from World Gazetteer, Nielsen/NetRatings, ITU, and other local sources). Extrapolating this ...

NINE TYPES OF BLOGGERS (slightly adapted from Collis’ 9 Essential Posts Every Blogger Should Know About, thanks, Lucas):Speedlinker: Roundups, Comments, Trackbacks, etc of interesting posts. E.g. Problogger.comQuoter: Blockquoting an interesting point of view, extract or news snippet and add a short bit of opinion and sourcing information. E.g. Susan Mernet’s …

TIM O’REILLY, one of the web’s most influential thinkers, has just told BBC Radio Five Live that it could be time to formalise blogging behaviour:“I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn’t come through any kind of [legal/government] regulation it would come through ...

JUST WHAT DID I SAY at Nexus 2007, the special Web 2.0 event that took place among an estimated 500-odd participants last Saturday? A quick look at the writeups of several bloggers suggests that different people heard and saw different things.First, Benjamin Koe, in Almost social media (Nexus 2007), had been most flattering:“Although the speaker ...

IT HAS BEEN A long “Twittering” weekend for me.First, read Beth Kanter’s post on Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful? where she quote Chris Brogan’s 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good. Now, let’s see: Quick Human Answers, Conference / News Briefings (or news flash), Friendsourcing, Micro-Attention-Sharing, Direct People to …

JOHN EDWARDS, presidential candidate in the USA, added me as a friend on Twitter last night. Something like this in Singapore — say, PM Lee did this — would definitely make headline news. I presume it’s nothing in the States by now? So now, on my Followers page, I have the honor ...

Tony Targonski has just highlighted a new worldwide social experiment on the Internet: An open appeal to all to shutdown their computers for 24 hours on 24th March (Sat), the day of Nexus 2007!! The online challenge: “Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?”Here’s a humorous video made in support of Shutdown Day ...

INSPIRED BY THE REASONING and examples of Lucas McDonnell (To Follow or Not To Follow) and Loren Baker (13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck), I’ve installed two plugins: DoFollow and ShowTopCommentators.The DoFollow plugin disables the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links. The ShowTopCommentators plugin displays the names (linked to their website if …