Online weblog survey by June Tan
She have prepared a survey that breaks into 3 parts. The questionnaire is composed mostly of Multiple Choice Questions, and is divided into three parts: Part I: General Demography (12 questions). Part II: For Blog Readers (14 questions). Part III: For Bloggers (11 questions). Please fill in this questionnaire only if you are a blog reader/blogger residing in Malaysia, or a blog reader/blogger of Malaysian nationality residing abroad.It is to gather more data about Malaysian blogger. You can view the questions here. You can also visit her blog here . Good luck, with the survey!
NSTP + Utusan = ?
Am I reading this right? First, the aquasition of all free TV under Media Prima, then the merger of Sime Darby, Golden Hope. Is we going backward? I was just reading about a Sarawak tycoon plans to buy stakes in Nanyang Press Holdings Bhd and distribute it to the Chinese community. That's good. Then this. (update 2/12/06)
Mergers is not an alien practice in business. It does have it benefits. But newspapers? Do people want to read a monotonous and one sided reports? Oh, this must be the end of Malaysia journalism. I mean quality journalism.
Pahit Manis - Datuk Ahmad A Talib
I used to read NST in school but for reasons all of us knew by now, I had even asked my office's daily newspaper to be changed to the Star. Not a good sub but what choice do I have. Nice to have another blogger with a good credibility. Some of us really need the real news. And a voice too. - awas
Tinggal sebulan lagi
Insyallah, anak kedua kami akan dilahirkan sekitar sebulan dari sekarang. Mengikut kiraan doktor, pada 24 Desember ini. Debaran makin terasa. Semoga semua selamat.
Billionaire Dropouts.
The history (or drama, if you want to call it that) of Steve Jobs as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur is too long to list in details. (Okay, let’s list two: he built "blue boxes" or hacking devices that allowed people to get illegal free long distance phone calls which he then used to prank call the Pope and he once backpacked around India in search of philosophical enlightenment and came back with a bald head, and wearing traditional Indian clothing).
Tags: billionaire, drop, out
Perjumpaan & Anugerah GengJurnal 2006
Blogger A. Kadir Jasin by A. Kadir Jasin
Datuk A. Kadir Jasin, former Group Editor NST Sdn Bhd and Group Editor-in-Chief of NSTP Bhd between 1988 and 2000. Now an avid blogger have just published a book taken from selected posting in his popular weblog.
The book is available in bookstores nationwide. It can also be obtained the book by coming personally to the Berita Publishing Book Centre located at 10, Jln 4/109E, Taman Desa, off Jln Klang Lama, 58100 Kuala Lumpur. (Tel:03-76208111 ext 108/109). The book is priced RM15 a copy. Got to get a copy myself.
These books would have sold like water in a desert if they had been allowed anywhere near the on-going Umno General Assembly at the PWTC. - Rockybru
Tags: a, kadir, jasin
Ning - Create your own Social Websites!
Other notable functions is the ability to mashup photo and video with maps and soo on. Although, I think the limited ability to customize the your site's look with a simple template editor (which Blogger have, for example) was it biggest letdown. User might find it troublesom to change it, especially those who do not understand programming.
Read what Techcrunch, Mashable and O'Reilly think about Ning.
Malaysia is slipping (or is it sleeping)?
1. Foreign direct investments in Malaysia.
Fell to $3.97 billion in 2005 from $4.62 billion in 2004, last month's World Investment Report 2006 said. Indonesia, which drew $5.26 billion of foreign-direct investments last year, overtook Malaysia as Asia's sixth-most attractive country.
2. Corruption Index.
Malaysia slipped to 44th in the 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index from 39th last year.
It's time to do the fire fighting again, I supposed?
Tags: malaysia, is, slipping
Support Creative Commons
1. Photo Contest on Flickr.
The contest is part of Creative Commons’ Annual Fundraising Campaign andruns through December 18, 2006. Contest information and rules can be found at here.
2. The annual Creative Commons Competition.
It will be announced at the Community Building Event on December 13, 2006. Any Question please go to Isummit.
Any question regarding the above please contact Alina Ng at alina@mdec.com.my or call 03-83153306
Creative Commons needs your support to help enable a participatory culture – a culture in which everyone can actively engage in the creativity that surrounds us. We need your support to assure access to cultural, scientific, and educational content that has been pre-cleared for use by its authors.
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DIGITAL FHOTO JERITAN JIWA menjadi satu
Berlandaskan satu tema khusus setiap bulan atau sesi, kini situs ini juga telah menjadi satu medan persahabatan yang utuh. Kata kunci di sini adalah kolaborasi, tiada nilai-nilai komersial atau sebarang aktiviti mencari keuntungan di sini, hanya pengumpulan manusia dan hasil kerja mereka yang ikhlas atas dasar minat dan setiakawan.
Lagi Gamba Raya
Perjumpaan GengJurnal 2006
Kepada semua yang hadir ke perjumpaan ini, mereka akan mendapat secara percuma senaskah zine 72 halaman, RAPAT. Antara kandungan menarik di dalamnya ialah keputusan bancian weblog Malaysia. Kepada yang tidak dapat hadir, masih lagi berpeluang untuk memiliki zine ini. Sila hubungi 0193618501
Tarikh : 18.11.2006, Sabtu.
Tempat : Cafe Al'amo, Kelab Sultan Sulaiman, Kg. Baru
Tema : Hari Raya
Bayaran Penyertaan : RM50
Tags: Geng, Jurnal, Gathering
Web designers Success Guide : How to profit from freelance web design
Sesi bergambar keluarga di rumah Along, Kota Masai, Johor.
Tahun ini, kami beraya di rumah atok di Sarang Buaya, Semerah, Batu Pahat. Selesai sahaja marhaban kenduri doa selamat di rumah pusaka Tok Abah kami beransur ke Bandar Baru Uda, rumah mertua. Oleh kerana keadaan Fadhilah yang sedang sarat, bergerakkan kami tidak selincah tahun lepas. Haziq bertambah ligat dengan kebolehan baru, berjalan tanpa memegang tembok. Sandle raya dia pun boleh tahan stylo.
Kami hanya beraya ke rumah kawan-kawan terdekat. Oleh kerana cuti panjang, ramai yang masih di kampung. Dan seperti tahun-tahun lepas, saat yang kami tunggu-tunggu, gambar raya kami sekeluarga.
Malaysian are increasing dependent on the web for news, rather then newspaper.
The study also showed that from Q2 2005 to Q2 2006, the active reach of newspaper sites rose from 28.7 to 35.6 percent of the U.S. Web population, pageviews increased from 1.65 to over 2.5 billion, and pages per person climbed from 39 to 45.8.
Majority of major newspapers worldwide today have their own version of electronic newspaper. People are allowed to browse the latest news on their website, which is very close to the paper version. It is usually free but there are also some that charge user for a more detail and refine version on their electronic newspaper.
Tabloids
Apart from the usual news taken from news agencies, there is also a growing number of social networking website that allow user to submit news and hot topic to them, instead of relying on news agencies. These sites, such as Digg, Netscape and Newsvine are very popular because they did not only read the news but even contribute it to the website. This kind of website seem to be increasing popular with readers
Major daily newspaper
In Malaysia, number of users visiting newspaper’s website is increasing. The Star seem to be the most popular local news website, meanwhile for major Malay daily, there is not much differences between Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia. This is only newspaper websites and did not include e-zines or news portal in Malaysia.
The reason? It easier to browse news on certain topic on the internet. And it's cheap, virtually free.