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The Sunday Times on Bloggers.SG 2005

Hello if you visited me by typing in the URL from the story in the ST.

For the record, I would like state that the Bloggers.SG was not one big yawn. Perhaps you have to be a blogger to appreciate it? I’m not sure what Jeremy Au Yong or Shawn Woo were expecting – Mardi Gras we are not. But if they want to contact me, I would be delighted to initiate them into the merry world of blogging so they can come back next year for Bloggers.SG 2006 armed with more information.

But thanks for nominating me for the Sunday Times Bloghead Awards. You got that bit about me correct – about how I disappeared after saying hi to some people. I received an email from an angry bloke about how people kept thinking he was me and mobbed him all day long.

Update!
The New Paper has a totally different perspective.

Update!
Associate Press (AP) doesn’t seem to think we’re boring. In fact, they gave Bloggers.SG a pretty good writeup!

Update!
Tym sums up why ST thought the convention was one big yawn.

No wonder the mainstream media were baffled. Half an hour before the event was scheduled to begin, I overheard a press photographer remarking querulously to his reporter colleague, “No banner outside, nobody at the door — all so secretive.” During the con, I saw another reporter repeatedly approach different conference organisers, entreating their assistance in unmasking a hitherto unidentified-in-real-life blogger, because she’d decided that was the angle for her story. In this morning’s paper, the mainstream English press pronounced the event “one big YAWN”.

How could they be expected to make sense of a non-profit event that doesn’t need a banner because its main target audience gets the information directly from the organisers via the web, not the mainstream media or a banner hanging outside a community centre? How could they expect to interview, let alone unmask, a popular blogger, when the local blogosphere thrives on goodwill and (largely) mutual tolerance and respect, not just for the views expressed in each other’s blogs but also for personal decisions to reveal/conceal personal information, including one’s identity? How could they fathom the uncontrollable disorder of the backchannel chat running concurrently with the conference proceedings, the easygoing chitchat that burbled steadily in the background while the panellists spoke? How could it be that all these people with exciting things to say in the written medium, weren’t putting up an equally striking song-and-dance for them in person?

In other news, Tym did not throw up in mrbrown’s car. She threw up after she poked her head out of the car door, onto my front porch. Awesome! The confirmation of a most excellent night out with abusive substances!

Thanks to Lancerlord for the scans

i would think the blogger.sg con was not one big yawn either, even though i didnt turn up. and in fact, im stabbing myself in the thigh for NOT going.

Nuts. I was looking forward to seeing photos of the Cowboy.

Nuts. I was looking forward to seeing photos of the Cowboy. I have only ever seen your legs.

my gf was under the same impression after reading the sunday times. it’s so typical of ’some’ reporters to just condemn the entire event, just coz they failed to achieve their objectives.

at least now i know what you looked like!

hey mysterious man.. i’m still pretty sure you are the same person as Rockson…

c’mon we all wanna know who you are

pretty please?

Heylo! BloggerCon was an eye-opener!

Thanks for setting up the Blog Convention for all the SG Bloggers out there! :)

You actually revealed yourself huh

It wasn’t a big yawn, but some parts were a bit draggy. Bo pian lah.

can we read the email? pls pls pls

Eh. Can don’t embarrass me for the whole blogosphere to see, please?

Too late Tym. What colour was your upchuck? Did you stay to wash up Mr Brown’s porch?

Haha..threez, think is Cowboy’s porch.. Jialat :p

CC i didn’t get ard to see you in the flesh (keke) @ Blogger.sg (cos i was there only for the 5-6 session)

thou i asked this female blogger (also part of the liquidblade family) to send my regards to you.

John

I found it most interesting, though I wish they would upload the contents of what was discussed in the 2nd segment to some site for reference

Wah big girl already still throw up? How can?

Oops, yes, it’s the cowboy’s porch that needs cleaning. Maybe the cow will come and lick it clean, haha.

It wasn’t the porch, precisely. It rained a lot yesterday and today, so I’m sure it’s all clean already.

ahhh!!..lotsa ppl sae they saw cowboy..din see lEH!..where r u…

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