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TNP: 30 Bloggers Joining SG Bloggers Assoc

Since the association got the official nod on 16 Jan, Ms Goh said it has received several enquiries from netizens interested in joining.

However, no new members have been admitted yet.

She said the organisation also plans to invite about 30 prominent bloggers to join as members, but declined to name them.

‘We hope to get bloggers from across a few categories, such as food, lifestyle, socio-political blogs, photography and so on.’

So instead of finding out from the official temporary Association of Blogger (Singapore) website/blog, the Singapore blogosphere finds out (again) from a dead-tree newspaper that 30 prominent bloggers are being recruited (list is super-duper secret though) to join the Association. (read it here as well)

Do they never evar evar update their damned website/blog?

Are there really 30 prominent bloggers in Singapore? A few hundred friends, acquaintances and bootlickers do not a popular blogger make. You need thousands of unique eyeballs, coming back day after day to even declare you’re being ‘read’. So what exactly entails being a prominent blogger? Your guess is as good as mine.

The author of the TNP article is Liew Hanqing (hanqing@sph.com.sg). A fact that he could not fit in to the article (due to timing) was on the day the article was published (31st Jan), 7 of the commitee members had already left due to various personal reasons.

But I also get the feel that the article was not thoroughly researched and that Liew Hanqing doesn’t really know the background of the situation and why a leader’s credibility & reputation are so important is garnering support from the blogosphere.

Let’s hope his next article is more balanced and closer to reality.

This just gets better and better.

*breaks out the popcorn*

*crunchcrunchcrunch*

*brings out wooden stool + nachos + pass some to Angie*

*munchmunchmunch*

Kill me if I am ever identified as one of the 30 stupid koteks who paid the $110.

Hmm. Kind of reminds me how I was quoted (without being informed btw) by TNP once and get this: in the same paragraph, I was referred as both a “MR PAT LAW” and a “SHE”.

Doesn’t help the article was written by not one, but two writers. Don’t they check their stuff these days?

7 Left already? Lol. No money to pay the subscription eh..
100 dollars must be justified. I’m not just going to learn how to blog by paying 100.

if paying 100 can boost my traffic and future earnings to 20X.

I’ll pay gladly else i’ll spend on binges instead.

oh my, can’t help it, this is too good…

*brings out another stool and wedges between Angie & Hamie

davienne jumps queue wor. hehehehe…..

order KFC and share? ngiak ngiak ngiak.

CRAB to take over ABS soon!! ;)

30 prominent bloggers? If they are prominent, the last thing they are gonna do is to join this stupid association. They are smarter than that, which is why they are prominent in the first place!

epic FAIL

Looks like only wilfrid and ECL are left.. Maybe they can procreate by asexual divison or sth… Xin Yun (I think was I/C of mraketing) has had her name taken off the committe list. But no official announcement on Xin Yun’s Blog…

xiao ah.. pay $100 dollars to join a blogger association?
No wonder Li Ao say sinkies are stupid… haha…

30 Prominent… I don’t even know any popular bloggers other than XX and brown and miyagi.

Maybe she’s referring to ROCKSON.

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Although I am neutral with regards to the SBA, I believe that you have done more than enough blogging on this issue and should give it a break. Don’t you have anything else to blog about? Why give so much space an time to something which you seem to only have ill thoughts of.

Some of my friends thing ah they’re just PAP-wannabes. If not, EPIC FAIL. If they can get Yawning Bread or Mr Wang Says So or Mr Brown join this stupid association I’ll believe it’s for something good!

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