the(new)mediaslut

Melbourne Tiger Thomas’ Hang Time

The Singapore Slingers were not expected to win their home match against Melbourne Tigers last night which they lost 96-105.

It was the Slingers’ low scoring third quarter that completely wiped out their hard work during the first half.

Slingers giving Tiger’s 33 a whiff of its strong defence

The Slingers biggest lead against Tigers about eight minutes in the first quarter was five points and they leveled the score at 43-43 when Grizzard (Slingers #1) scored two points into the fourth minute of the quarter.

Unfortunately, the Melbourne Tigers steam rolled the Slingers in both offensive and defensive after the scores were leveled.

The Slingers ended the first half with 47 points while the Tigers scored 55.

The half time break seem to have tire the Slingers rather then recharged them.

After Ben Knight scored at the third minute of the third quarters to make it Slingers 58 with Tigers at , the Slingers remained at that score for the next four minutes or so, while Tigers went ahead to score 10 points during that period of tiem.

During this scoreless period, it was noticed that Slinger’s Mike Helms took over the “ball-controller” responsibility from Shane McDonald, the home team seem to have lost their offensive power.

The Slingers ended the third quarter scoring 19 points while the Tigers scored 29 points.

The fourth quarter saw the Slingers’ getting more points with Helms returning the “ball-controller” responsibility to Shane.

Slingers fight back with a Helms’ special

The Slingers ended the final quarter scoring 30 points while the Tigers only managed to get 22.

Thanks to Nicholas Aaron Khoo, a few bloggers were treated to VIP box seats at the Singapore Indoor Stadium for the National Basketball League’s Singapore Slingers vs Melbourne Tigers game last night.

Precious from notesfrommyheart also challenged bloggers to guess his/her gender based on the blog posts. and winners got tickets to the match.

I don’t know who won, but I know Precious’ gender….

Is this Precious? Looks more like a media slut wannabe to me..
That’s Andrew of aplink.wordpress.com.

Precious? Nope that’s the sometimes
in distress damsel Qiao Yun of sheylara.com

Precious? Not yet.. Left Imran Omar of blog.thepacificwest.com
and right is Nicholas, wine waiter for the day.

Oi ATT, where is Precious? If you screaming that out, you are starting to sound like Gollum.

It took Gollum three books and more than 9 hours of movie time before it got his Precious, so hold your horses..

Left: Princessa of Sabrina.sg gracing the match
Right: Daphne of www.daphnemaia.com in the center

Bloggers with The Singapore Slingers

Bloggers with Bob Turner, CEO of Singapore Slingers

Drum roll please… Here’s Precious!!!

Overheard that for the next few contest Precious might be asking her readers to guess her age (which this blogger also knows and sure win one lor) and her sexual preferences (this one…. )

Your mid-day break..

Take a look at this WOW Machinima.

If there was an Academy Award for Machinima, this will be the clincher!

Questex Asia announced their joint venture with TechTarget for the China market last night at Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondent Club.

This followed the Questex-TechTarget collaboration with SMBnet announced last month in Singapore.

Johnathon Bigelow, publisher for Questex Asia, made a pointed remark about how the joint venture will not cover telecom drew the most laughter during the event.

The non-presence of Robert Ferguson, Managing Director & Global Group Publisher for Questex Asia, was visibly noticed by the attending PR guests.

No reason was also given for his absence when asked.

When journos are on a junket, the accompanying PR person would have plans the journos to be entertained even after the major press conference is over.

However, a couple of journalists were left “stranded” in the streets of Bangalore, India, after the press conference.

“The vendor dumped us in town,” said one of the six visiting journalists.

“Basially they told us to go ahead after the main event was over in town.

“But between 6 journos and 2 drivers we had no PR or anybody from the vendor and the driver then took us to to a rip off price type of place.”

Lucky for the 1 Singapore journo, 2 Vietnamese journos and 3 Thai journos, one of them was such a frequent visitor to Bangalore that he took charge and brought them to much more friendly places in town.

“The PR (internal) tried to join us about an hour later, ” said the journo who turned tour guide hero for the night.

“But by which time everyone was happy being guided by me.”

When Singapore SEO, Larry Lim, wrote how Advertlets was capitalizing on Nuffnang’s SGD1 misery, I made a comment the entry on how the competition is going to benefit bloggers.

My comments:

In this case here, Adverlet’s bloggers save on the $1 and this will force Nuffnang to reconsider their S$1 charges. Who benefits? The bloggers, of course.

Ming Shen Cheo, executive director for Nuffang, wrote in his email to Nuffnang members that “As a concession, we have decided to absorb this cost till October 31st).

See what competition does to the players involve?

A murderer is condemned to death.

He has to choose between three rooms.

The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years.

Which room is the safest for him?

Disclaimer: This is pimped request from Josh Lim of Advertlets.com to post about the future of online advertising. Need some pimping of a new product or web2.0 solution? email themediaslut(at)gmail.com.

Before blogs, you had to know HTML to create a website. You had to remember to link the home page to page 3 and vice versa.

With blogs, all you had to do was focus on creating on the content. I once registered a domain, installed a blog engine like wordpress, downloaded a theme for the blog off the web and started entering the content in less than 15 minutes.

Basic HTML was needed though, but the hardest part was creating content for the blog, not the HTML.

And if you blog has a bit of white space to spare and decide to use it to put up advertising banners, you don’t have to go to the advertisers to pitch for a deal. Leave it to Web2.0 services like Google Adsense.

If you want more local ads from the region, a blogger can go to web2.0 ad agents like Advertlets and others

All the blogger needs to worry now is creating content to get more readers to the blog.

So where is the bloggers’ online advertising advantage? What is this power of one and links?

The first few days of a new blog may start with zero readers, even though the blogger put in much thought to the design of the blog, the contents, the position of the ad, etc. So where is the blogger going to get that first reader?

It is most likely that the blogger will copy the hyperlink of the blog or post and paste it in the conversation box with a friend of the Instant Messaging service of the blogger’s choice.

Once the friend receives the link and click on it, the blogger gets his first reader. If the blog impresses the reader, the reader will subscribe to the RSS feed or cut and paste the link to give to another friend. Say the other friend also likes the blog, decides to Digg the post or add it to a social bookmarking site which is open to all to see.

From this chain, one reader decides to submit it to tomorrow.sg and it gets accepted. All of a sudden, your blog or a particular post is read by hundreds if not thousands.

The one reader becomes a multiplier effect and this the power of one reader and links.

If you compare it to the traditional print medium, would getting your first reader or subscriber be as easy?

To get a print publication out in the newstand, you would have to look for a distributor and negotiate the cost of distribution. A good distributor with a good network would cost you more.

When it gets to the newstand, how it sells depends on how much the newstand owner prominently position the print magazine or convince someone to buy it. What influences the newstand owner to do this is how much of a commission he gets from the magazine or distributor. Again, this adds to the cost.

Back to the blogs.

At the end of the day, advertisers want to see a return of investment in their advertising dollars. The whole idea of an ad is to generate brand awareness and more sales revenue.

But in today’s new Internet age, there is also one element of ROI to consider and its this concept of word of mouth marketing.

As a product reviewer who once tested 10 digital cameras for a shoot out feature, anybody who wanted to buy anything from Sim Lim Square or Funan Center would ask me to recommend it to them or seek my advise on a certain brand or product.

Blogs in a way have taken concept of that word of mouth marketing. If you want to buy a particular brand of digital camera, you would ask your friend who has one. The friend would then say, if you want to see the quality of my photos, see my blog. That’s word of mouth marketing for you.

Or if a blogger visited a restaurant or a food center and blogged about the experience both bad and good with photos to add, visitor to that blog might take his opinion to try that place.

Hence, besides just putting an ad on a blog, I personally believed that advertisers should let the bloggers also be part of the experience for a product or food place.

One of Advertlets’ advertisers is The Manhattan Fish Market. Sponsored posts were offered to bloggers who have registered with Adverlets and were in range band based on the number of unique visitors to the blogs.

That’s advertising. To keep the word of mouth marketing going, maybe Advertlets can suggest this to the The Manhattan Fish Market.

Let’s say The Manhattan Fish Market has a new menu it wants to share. Instead of just putting banner ads and looking for bloggers to put up sponsored post, Advertlets and The Manhattan Fish Market should run a blog competition among Advertlets’ members to reward those who featured the new menu in the most attractive and unique way, maybe like a full refund of the receipt spend for the meal the blogger ordered.

Though the temptation to only select the blog that writes only the good things is there, The Manhattan Fish Market should look at rewarding the blog post that could help improve the menu or even the service even if means selecting the most critical of entries.

The key here is to engage the bloggers not just as another medium, but as a customer who wants to share his experience with others.

Advertlets can be found at www.advertlets.com.

Another angry mother post.

The very very very angry mother in Singapore emailed to me that her Windows Live Spaces of her proud new born has been made unavailable to her just like that.

Photos and history of her baby’s first six months, gone!

The angry mother highlighted that it could be due a photo of her massaging her baby and the people at Windows Live Spaces emailed her about the photo.

Unfortunately the email address was one that was just used to sign up for the account and she checked it very rarely.

Curious, why doesn’t Windows Live Spaces just censor the photo instead of deleting the whole blog? Or turn the blog into a private blog where the mother is the only one that can access the blog.

If somebody in Microsoft Singapore is reading the blog, please write to your Windows Live Space team to return Angry Mother access to her blog at lilyaraiven.spaces.live.com.

Vote here to help Angry Mother get her baby blog back!

Hello lilyaraivenstamp,

We have found images involving a child’s/children’s exposure of genitalia/buttocks on your Space, lilyaraiven.

Please note that in order to protect minors from exploitation by unscrupulous individuals, we are now restricting our users from posting fully and partially nude pictures of babies and children, whether the nature of the photo is pornographic or not. In accordance with this, we request that you remove images of the said nature from your space within 48 hours.

If these images are not removed within the said timeframe, we will be forced to close down your Space.

To delete photos from your Space, please follow these steps:

1. Log into your Space

2. Click on the “Edit Your Space” link (upper right portion of the page)

3. Click “Options”

4. Click on the “Storage” link in the Options pane

5. Select the images to be removed

6. Click on “Delete selected items”

We also encourage you to regularly review our Code of Conduct, to ensure that your Space does not violate any of its provisions. Violations include, but are not limited to, nudity, partial nudity, pornography, harassment, and illegal or offensive behavior. For a complete description of content that is not allowed on Windows Live Spaces, please visit our Code of Conduct at: http://Spaces.live.com/coc.aspx

Thank you for helping Windows Live Spaces provide a friendly and safe experience for all of our customers.

Sincerely,

Windows Live Spaces Customer Support

For some strange reasons, there are a lot of broken hearted males out there who have been highlighting to a friend of the(new)mediaslut they can’t find a girlfriend or no girls like them or the girls they like is already taken.

So inspired by these broken hearted males, the(new)mediaslut is teaming up with The Man Slut to come up with love tips for men by born-again man slut.

Love tip #1: If the girl you like is attached/married, go for her single friends!

Why bother with the headache of trying to snatch the attached/married girl you like?

Get that girl to introduce her single friends to you.

The friends of the girl you are interested in will most likely share the same traits or some common interests. How can they be friends if not for something they have common with each other.

If this attached/married girl you are interested in wants to introduce her single friends to you, go for it!

Nothing works best than a word of month recommendation.

Also the introduction is to be friends, not a matchmaking session that your parents would be setting up for you.

So don’t go in expecting to marry the girl you just met. Girls are more likely to find you very weird if you are talking as if marriage on the cards from the first introduction.

Her daughter might have loved Windows Vista Gadgets, but her mother, a Gartner analyst, had to re-install her desktop to Vista because of all the problems encountered.

It so happened that this mother was one of the interviewer at a Gartner conference with Steve Ballmer as the interviewee.

From PC World:

She went on to explain that she installed Vista for her daughter — and two days later went right back to using the XP operating system. “It’s safe, it works, all the hardware is fine, and everything is great,” she said of XP.

Genovese also argued that her experience with Vista is broadly shared: “What we’re seeing and what we’re hearing from users is a very similar thing. It’s difficult to implement. What should we be seeing that we’re not seeing?”

Steve Ballmer defended Windows Vista as much as he could till the mother aka Gartner analysis ended it with a clincher.

“Good, I’ll let you come in and install it for me,” said Genovese.

Would Steve get his hands dirty to install Windows Vista?

I wonder if Barney Chew, Managing Director for Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd., would offer to help a Singapore user who switched from Vista to XP to install Vista for that user…

Dear Mr Barney Chew, how about a “Help me install Vista” charity drive?

According to the Advertising Age, this blog is ranked 319th out of 465 blogs of the top media and marketing blog in the rankings.

However, the(new)mediaslut is one of the only two Singapore based blog mentioned in the list.

The other Singapore based blog is Ian McKee’s thepowerofinfluence.typepad.com which is ranked 331.

This blog aims to be in the top 150.

Tiffany Chew of Oglivy PR bids the agency farewell today.

Tiffany will be heading to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to be closer with her boyfriend there.

Will Tiffany be leaving the PR scene altogether?

According to sources, Tiffany will be joining the Edelman PR team in Malaysia.

All the best, Tiffany!

For SMBs looking to create their own intranet but can’t afford the cash, why don’t you consider Facebook?

Create a group and make it a secret group.

As  a secret group, only admin can invite people to it and it will not appear in the search option.

So if the admins want to send a internal note, they can do it in the group under “Discussion Board” and the staff internally can discuss about the issue.

Or a group photo or share a link only for internal.

Nice idea, right?

Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew provided the print media here a very valuable suggestion of how they can stay ahead of the Web2.0 curve in his interview with syndicated columnist Tom Plate of the UCLA Media Center and new-media expert Jeffrey Cole of the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future.

“Well, it is already on its way because the print media here is not growing the same way, they are stagnating,” said MM Lee.

“It’s not declining as fast as, say, it is in America or Britain … And this is happening here.

“The young, they read things on the Internet. I mean, I am part of the older generation. Yes, I read some stuff on the Internet, but at the end of the day, I say, well, let’s see what the proper analysis is. So, I look up, I look at the editorial pages and the op-ed pages.

“I am not sure that the young will do that anymore, but the way the print media can stay in the contest is not to be the first with the news because that’s not possible, but to be the first with the background and the analysis and the ones with the high credibility will stay in business. ”

You can read the full transcript here.

With the access that journalists have to provide more background and analysis to their story, I have to agree with MM Lee that this is one way that print media here, or anywhere in the world, can stay ahead of bloggers.

In fact, the print media here should also not forget that bloggers here are also readers and they should look at was to get these bloggers/readers be part of their print media.

As Jeremy Wagstaff in his column in The Jakarta Post wrote, “What we’re seeing with the Internet is not a revolution against the values of old media; a revolution against the notion that it’s only us who can dictate what is news.

“What we’re seeing is that people get their news from whoever can help them answer the question they’re asking. We want the headlines, we go to CNN. But the rest of the time, “news” is for us just part of a much bigger search for information, to stay informed.”

Jeremy went on to explain that posts in blogs are like “hyperlocal” news and your Facebook status as “hyperhyper local” news.

So how can mainstream media take advantage of these? Here’s an example.

Mr Brown wrote recently about how the town council in his estate removed stone seats from his block’s void deck because they wanted to stop old folks from gambling at the stone seats.

What the print media should do pick up where this hyperlocal news provided left off and contact the town councils to get comments on their decision to do as such. To provide more meat to the article, they should also talk to like the societies that helps to tackle the gambling addiction if such methods are a solution and even talk to the residents to get their thoughts on removing the stone seats.

Another example would be that of the recent blogger who noticed that Nuffnang’ charge bloggers SGD1 to service their cheques.

The print media can again pick up from this “hyperlocal news provider”  and worked on story to ask the bigger players if it is common practice to pass the buck to the customers.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to give credit to the hyperlocal news provider. That will only make that news provider buy the papers and even buy more copies to show off to friends and relatives.

Sitemeter was installed on the right column in September and this site has reached its 5000 unique readers in a month.

A big thank you 500 readers.

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Free Burma, Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

What is life like when one is under suppression, living with humble means,
and still trying to smile all the while?

Repression of a military regime. Psychological suppression of its people. Death is not impossible for those who dare to stand against the grain.

What we have witnessed during the peace protests, what is now coined as the “Saffron Revolution” September 2007 was a remarkable and inspiring event - conveying the desperation, hopes and wishes to live a peaceful and decent life.

A price hike in fuel, thus rolling into a price hike in basics such as rice and oil. How can the people not be outraged?

Praying for peace for the monks and people of Burma

How could the people not be seen with a loss for words when monks are being rounded up and taken to who knows where? Where are the Monks? Where are the victims? What is this we hear about nightly raids and cremations happening in the wee hours of the night?

“What actions would it take to fully dimantle the military junta?”

I wonder if protests in this case will REALLY be effective. There is certainly no doubt that it brings about incremental change. It does bring about incremental awareness. It does make the local and global communities learn about the unspeakable events, which have occurred over the last month. My question is - what actions would it take to fully dismantle the military junta?

It may be presumptuous to assume that the military regime will never change its way of thinking. It may never give up on its objectives. It already has succession plans. One will do what one can to keep the power and money.

I have so many questions. In a situation like this, it is not all that simple to figure out what is REALLY the best way.

How can we continue these peace protests without putting anyone’s family back home in Burma in harm’s way? We must think about the people - and how their lives will be affected!

More thoughts to come.

May all beings achieve highest happiness.

XTT.

More photos:

I have started to notice a somehow ironic trend in both the Singapore and Malaysian newspapers lately.

Both newspapers have been featuring more critical columns and stories about their Causeway counterparts rather than about their own motherland.

Take for example the recent column by Seah Chiang Nee, for the Malaysian newspaper The Star, who was critical of the way the Singapore census count Singapore residents instead of true blue Singaporeans.

“The Singapore resident has become a special category that officials generally use when talking about population and manpower,” wrote Chiang Nee

“Lumped together in this category are Singaporeans born and naturalised and foreigners who have been offered permanent residence (PR) before they apply for or are granted citizenship.

“For some time now, the Statistics Department – in line with Manpower and other Ministries – has stopped classifying population the way other countries do, i.e. between citizens and foreigners.”

Thanks to the Internet, Singapore bloggers, like Mr Brown and Little Speck, are now commenting on the census report based on a column in a Malaysian newspaper.

To be honest, I was only aware of the census’ “shenanigans” only after reading the blogs mentioned.

Isn’t it “strange” that nobody from the Singapore press is commenting on the census report?

And if you want to read an insightful and critical column about Malaysia, guess which papers you should be reading?

The Straits Times, of course.

When the Port Klang fiasco in Malaysia came to light, it was the column titled “Port Klang’s free trade zone woes loom large” by Leslie Lopez for The Straits Times that got the front page.

No points for guessing who picked up the stories though.

Malaysian bloggers like Jeff Ooi was quick to highlight the story on his blog.

These are two examples but it seems like the trend is becoming more obvious lately.

Guess if I was a Singaporean, I should cancel my subscription to The Straits Times and sign up for the Malaysian papers. And if I was Malaysian, I should be looking at a new plan with the Singapore papers.

When you hear Tehran or Iran, the word nuclear facility immediately comes to your head.

That’s why I find this footage of the streets of Tehran in Iran very interesting as you seldom get footage of her streets.

Good job, Fat Bidin.

I don’t know Kevin and Kevin doesn’t know me.

But what the heck, if it means helping a fellow Singaporean with a single click, why not!

From Kevin:

Woah, look at what I got in the mail today… I’ve been chosen as one of the top 20 finalist for a blogging scholarship. Sounds weird, but my Atlanta homie Paul Stamatiou won a scholarship from them last year. This year, I’m in the running with him.

To vote:
1. Go to http://urltea.com/1p1d
2. Pick “Kevin Lim” (bottom of the list)
3. Hit the “Vote” button

Easy Bom-Pi-Pi right?