Monthly Archives: March 2008

Friend or foe?

Sometimes acronymns indicate the opposite meaning. Consider this: Friends of the Earth If you shorten this, it becomes “FOE”. Not exactly friendly, huh? Technorati Tags: Friends of the Earth FoE acronymns

Death to social networking

Face it, social networking is a silly idea. The countless social networking sites may be fun and novel at first, but once you’ve established contact with your long-lost “friend” (loosely defined here to include everyone that you’ve come across, no matter how brief the encounter), you’ll get bored quickly with these online procrastination services. That’s… Read More »

How not do conduct an interview

In case you haven’t already heard, the keynote interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW Interactive was ruined by an annoying and disrespectful BusinessWeek journalist named Sarah Lacy, who did a Tyra Banks and made herself the story. Update: Additional bits of the Zuckerberg/Lacy interview from 236.com

Will the wind of change finally blow our way?

In the aftermath of Malaysia’s election, a blogger by the name of Lee Lilian asked in one of her posts (“A new Malaysia, when will it be our turn?“): Will this election change Singaporeans’ perception/ mindset? Will it have a positive impact for the opposition in Singapore? Has it awaken our people and make them… Read More »