I have been advocating for a long time the need for access to information that is being hidden away by the government under some made up reason and planted under the "Official Secrets Act".
I would love to understand why the UNSW Asia campus pulled the plug from their 3-month old campus in Singapore - we hear officialspeak from both the EDB and the UNSW Asia.
I would love to see a FOIA or the RTI act in Singapore. Check Nattional Security Archive at George Washington University!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Cautious welcome
I guess someone bought them a cluestick and now the Straits Times website is mostly free of charge.
They are also saying that they will stop using the word "Interactive" in their website and just call it "Straits Times". This reminds me of an email exchange with the people who run that site when they first launched their website. They had planted all of their deadtree editions into a URL moniker - AsiaOne. I suggested in that email exchange that it is far better for them to have www.straitstimes.com, www.businesstimes.com and so on, instead of planting it as www.straitstimes.asia1.com.[sg] etc. The lame answer I got then was that they were trying to build the AsiaOne branding. It took about 10 years, but finally, they see the light.
I think the website is clean in it's design and am really glad to see the mention of Firefox as a prefered browser. With that, why they continue mentioning M$ browser is still unfathmable.
Anyway, kudos to the Straits Times. Free your content fully and I will champion your site (even if you are politically biased to the PAP).
They are also saying that they will stop using the word "Interactive" in their website and just call it "Straits Times". This reminds me of an email exchange with the people who run that site when they first launched their website. They had planted all of their deadtree editions into a URL moniker - AsiaOne. I suggested in that email exchange that it is far better for them to have www.straitstimes.com, www.businesstimes.com and so on, instead of planting it as www.straitstimes.asia1.com.[sg] etc. The lame answer I got then was that they were trying to build the AsiaOne branding. It took about 10 years, but finally, they see the light.
I think the website is clean in it's design and am really glad to see the mention of Firefox as a prefered browser. With that, why they continue mentioning M$ browser is still unfathmable.
Anyway, kudos to the Straits Times. Free your content fully and I will champion your site (even if you are politically biased to the PAP).
Monday, May 28, 2007
Been a while
Yet again, I am neglecting this blog. Not that I have nothing to say, it is just that my tech blog is seeing more activity.
Well, it has been 6 months. Much has changed in this sunny island. The powers that be have seen it fit to pay themselves more money, raise the GST and ... you know the drill.
What irks me is that there is so much blatant self-serving that was done by the political leadership that is smacks of nothing but greed. The whole debacle of this exercise of dipping in the coffers has been discussed ad nauseum by the blogosphere. My only contribution is to ask the "PM" if he indeed was going to donate his increment to charity *before* the parliamentary sham? Loong is caught in between a rock and a hardplace - if he does not say that he "wanted" to "donate" the increment, he would have joined the others in living up to the accusation of greed and if he had announced before the mockery of a "debate" that if the increment was approved, he would donate it he would have come across as trying to score points.
Sigh. This is my country. I served this country when the country called upon me in December 2004.
and I cannot stand by and watch it being taken for a ride.
Well, it has been 6 months. Much has changed in this sunny island. The powers that be have seen it fit to pay themselves more money, raise the GST and ... you know the drill.
What irks me is that there is so much blatant self-serving that was done by the political leadership that is smacks of nothing but greed. The whole debacle of this exercise of dipping in the coffers has been discussed ad nauseum by the blogosphere. My only contribution is to ask the "PM" if he indeed was going to donate his increment to charity *before* the parliamentary sham? Loong is caught in between a rock and a hardplace - if he does not say that he "wanted" to "donate" the increment, he would have joined the others in living up to the accusation of greed and if he had announced before the mockery of a "debate" that if the increment was approved, he would donate it he would have come across as trying to score points.
Sigh. This is my country. I served this country when the country called upon me in December 2004.
and I cannot stand by and watch it being taken for a ride.
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