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If you are a mommy or daddy blogger, Nuffnang is looking for you for advertorials.

Wrote the Nuffnang email,

We are calling out to all Mummy & Daddy Bloggers out there!

1) Exclusive Offer

We are exclusively looking for parent bloggers with kids of 5 to 9 years old to do an advertorial for an upcoming campaign by M1!

If you fall within this category, please email your Blog URL and subject your email title as “M1 Parents” to mummybloggers@nuffnang.com by 30 October 2008, Thursday, 4pm!

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2) If you are a parent blogger & do not fall under the above critera,

We still welcome YOU to submit in your details to us as well.

You can stand a chance to be selected for advertorials , in which you will be given advertorial fee based on your blog traffic.

On top of that, relevant banner ads will be placed on your blog too!

Let us take notice of your blog and grow money out of it!

Hurry up and let us know!

Email your Blog URL, Name and Contact Number to mummybloggers@nuffnang.com

Technorati Tags: Nuffnang,daddy blogger,mommy blogger

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Questex today announced the launch of SearchSMBAsia.com new look and feel.

Content director, Allan Tan, is on a lookout for contributed articles on the following topics from experts in the vendor community. PR interested can contact Allan at atan(at)questexasia.com.

Business & IT Portal for Asia’s SMB and SME | Search SMB Asia via kwout

Business software for the midmarket

Business intelligence (BI) for the midmarket

CRM for the midmarket

ERP for the midmarket

Web 2.0 technology for the midmarket

CIO careers and staffing for the midmarket

CIO and IT salaries for the midmarket

IT staff development and retention for the midmarket

IT training and certification for the midmarket

Compliance management for the midmarket

Compliance strategies for the midmarket

Contracts and legal issues

HIPAA compliance for the midmarket

IT auditing for the midmarket

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance

Data centers and infrastructure

Application development for the midmarket

Data storage for the midmarket

Desktops and laptops for the midmarket

Email and messaging for the midmarket

Enterprise application integration (EAI)

Green computing

LANs and wireless LANs for the midmarket

Legacy systems integration

Mobile technology for the midmarket

Open source midmarket software

Operating systems for the midmarket

Remote connectivity for the midmarket

SOA and Web services for the midmarket

SaaS for the midmarket

Server management for the midmarket

Systems management for the midmarket

Virtualization for the midmarket

VoIP and unified messaging for the midmarket

IT and business management for the midmarket

Business performance management

Business process management

Contract negotiations and legal issues

IT Service Management for the midmarket

IT and business alignment for the midmarket

IT project management for the midmarket

IT spending and budgeting for the midmarket

Leadership and strategy for the midmarket

Outsourcing for the midmarket

ROI for the midmarket

Vendor selection and management for the midmarket

Security and risk management for the midmarket

Data privacy for the midmarket

Disaster recovery planning and business continuity

Information security management for the midmarket

Risk management for the midmarket

Security tools for the midmarket

Its a bad 2008 for print publications.

It was announced earlier that Mediacorp Publishing will be shutting down Vanilla magazine for women.

Now SPH Magazine announced the shutting down of Maxim Singapore with the last issue in December 2008.

Wrote the SPH press release,

The publisher, a wholly owned subsidiary of media giant Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH), has announced that it will no longer publish lad mag Maxim in Singapore after its December issue.

… Mr Allen Loh, SPH Magazines’ Managing Director, adds: "To reach out to the modern male reader, and connect our advertisers to this group of very discerning audience, SPH Magazines will now focus our efforts and resources on titles like Men’s Health, as well as interest-specific men’s magazines within our stable, such as Torque, Golf Digest Singapore and HWM Singapore."

A look at back at 2004 saw a rather different quote from Mr David Tay, then managing director of SPH magazine.

Wrote Jennifer Whitehead of Brand Republic in 2004,

David Tay, managing director of SPH Magazines, said: "Singapore is a great and expanding magazine market, where the men’s magazine segment has been relatively neglected. With the changing habits, lifestyle and internationalisation of the average male Singaporean, it’s an opportune time for such a magazine here, especially since the name Maxim is already on everybody’s lips."

 

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Canon has launched a Powershot E! contest with Nuffnang and its babes.

Visitors to contest site can vote for the best photo scrap book and stand a chance to win a Canon Powershot E1 and a Selphy CP160 Canon Photo Printer.

The contest site is at http://www.nuffnang.com.sg/canon-3. But before you go there, here’s this blogger’s view on the photos and layout by the blogger babes.

Roaring Queen :] via kwout

At the time of writing this blog, Roaring Queen has the lowest votes. This is not surprising as none of her photos showed any scrap book effect. In fact, this scary photo of her is the best she could offer. Roaring Queen has failed to do show the fun using the new Canon Powershot E1.

T h y ‘ D o w a g e r via kwout

Thy-Dowager is second from bottom.  She is one of the few who focused on the camera’s digital macro effect. This photo showed both her ability to shoot a lizard that most often move very fast and her scrap book effect.

THE MIRACLE SEASON | more than just words via kwout

The only problem this blogger have with Ice-angel is that some of the photos posted might not be from the Canon Powershot E1 and she doesn’t clarify them. None the less, Ice-Angel done a good job in her layout of her photos.

I’m Dangerous <3 via kwout

Of all the bloggers babe, Underage-girl has taken the effort to pair each feature of the Canon Powershot E1 with a photo. This gives readers a good photo understanding of what the camera can do for them. This blogger babe should go work for a online gadget review magazine!

Ohsofickle: Canon Powershot E1 via kwout

If Oh-So-Fickle doesn’t win this popularity contest, Canon should have at least this the official blog for the Canon Powershot E1 as the lay-out meets the scrapbook effect to the T.  This blogger is currently second.

Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone’s reading it via kwout

No surprise that the current leader of this voting contest is Xiaxue. Her pimping of Sony, who also does digital cameras, will not go down well with the sponsors. The link to view her scrapbook at the

Nuffnang contest does not link to her post on the contest. Coincidence?

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Blogger Sabrina of Sabrina.sg joined CR Media on Monday as writer for their Gadget3 magazine and blog.

Princessa @ Sabrina.SG | Princess Sabrina - Just memories… via kwout

This is evidence that more publishers are looking for writers with blog to enhance their online publications with more adopting the blog format instead of the tradition webpage CMS approach.

Her very first post at Gadget3.com can be found below.

Gadget3.com | Lifestyle . Technology . Blog - Philips GoGear LUXE connects your music and calls in style via kwout

Sabrina can be contacted at sabrina.ong(at)crmedia.com.sg

CR Media is the publisher of other tech publication, PCMag Singapore.

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Kudos to a Malaysia Member of Parliament for using Yahoo search results as reasons for why the road name of famous food lane in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, should not be changed from Jalan Alor to Jalan Kejora.

Unfortunately there is a flaw to his argument.

Wrote Yip Yoke Teng of The Star,

The MP for Bukit Bintang, Fong Kui Lun, who has brought the matter up with the Federal Territories Minister, said: “How can you change the name just like that?”

He said a search of Jalan Alor on the Yahoo! search engine returned more than 900,000 results.

“You can imagine how famous this food haven is internationally,” he said.

Fong said that the area had taken years to establish its reputation and changing its name overnight was unfair to the locals.

The flaw lies in they way the MP searched for Jalan Alor.

If you were to do a search all terms of Jalan Alor in Yahoo.com.my, it does come up with the 900k+ results. The problem is this search ask for Yahoo to look for the terms Jalan Alor, Alor Jalan, Jalan and Alor.

The Yip should use an exact search term of Jalan Alor which is done by adding the open and close inverted commas like this “Jalan Alor”.

That only results in 300k+ pages.

Wireless is so pervasive these days that it can be found almost in any offices.

Unsecured wireless network may not be as common these days, but if your network is not secured, it could lead to serious consequences.

At Canon Rumors site, a reader submitted what looks like a draft of a Canon press release that is due for distribution in Dec 2008.
The press release was obtained via the act of wardriving and it looks like a first draft done by a PR person.

Here are some excepts from Canon Rumors:

- I don’t like the use of APS-C. can we say it another way?
- we need to make another quote, this one was copied from previous release
- good start, just need to reword copied text

Evolved Mirror
- title has been selected, body need to be writen with following facts
- new eletronic mirror that is fixed in place
- eletronically controlled to make it transparent
- viewfinder is darken during continous shooting, not blacked out, also useable with movie mode and live view
- sensor is sealed from dust, no more anti-dust system required, impossible for dust to touch sensor
- negligible transmission loss due to light passing transparent mirror
- autofocus sensor alignment issues do not exist anymore
- eletronic mirror also replaces shutter, allows for shutters speeds up to 1/128,000 and no limits on x-sync
Developed and manufactured by Canon specifically for the EOS-1Di digital SLR, the camera’s new fully eletronic mirror replaces what many thought was unreplaceable.

- need a title and body to detail the advantages of 1.6x crop here

Many print publishers are wondering why their online site lack the popularity of readers as compared to the blogs out this.
This is despite the fact that this print publishers have an “abundance” of established content providers in their team.

One of the reason this blogger has suspected to be the Achilles’ heel of the failure of old school publishers is the unwillingness to link to external sites.

Take a look at any blogs today and you will see most of them will provide an external link, in the form of an interesting post they read, or just a friend’s  blogroll.

If you look at Asiaone.com.sg,  you will notice the only external links come in the form of a banner ad.

In fact, an inside source highlighted that one of the senior online editors have made it very clear that the website must not have any external links unless it is paid for.

However, such a practice is going away as US publishers are now embracing the importance of having external links in their post.
Wrote BRIAN STELTER of The New York Times,

“Thou shalt not link to outside sites” — a long-held commandment of many newsrooms — is eroding.

Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors — acting in effect like aggregators. The Washington Post recently introduced a political Web site that recommends rival sites. This week NBC will begin introducing Web sites for its local TV stations with links to local newspapers, radio stations, online videos and other sources. And The New York Times will soon offer its online readers an alternative home page with links to competitors.

The quote for the this post title came from Scott Karp, chief of the Web-based newswire Publish2 who said, ““It’s all about sending people away, and it (Google) does such a good job of it that people keep coming back for more.”

Technorati Tags: Media,media2.0,publishing

This blogger would like to thank David Lian for posting an earlier link to this blog in his Facebook status.

Here’s returning the favour.

David Lian  spotted his future PM of Malaysia blogging from another blog.

Wrote David,

As a communicator by trade, it made me think about the meta of the DPM stepping into the social media realm. Deputy Prime Minister or not, suddenly his very virtual person on the web could be engaged, critiqued and discussed without the same level of tact you’d think he’d receive in the real world.

Are leaders putting themselves at risk of ridicule when they seek to engage the savvy web-community without a proper plan? People made fun of 1malaysia.com.my. And this Twitter feed looks like its there for being there’s sake. As off today, it has 16 followers and 0 friends. Not likely to spur a lot of conversation. Might want to try following some people first?

Maybe the DPM has a game plan. Maybe it will unfold in time. But frankly, at this point of time, it just seems like an ill-informed attempt to get into the social media space and NOT really engage anyone.

The future Malaysia PM is already gaining popularity with bloggers making parodies of his Web2.0 adventures.

Like in America, you know you are popular when time and effort is taken to meet a parody out of you.

ReadWriteWeb recently surveyed the top-tier bloggers in the US and shared some interesting earning figures.

It found that bloggers were paid USD25 per post on average, USD10 per post on the low end of the scale.

Fulltime/Inhouse bloggers replied that they earned about USD3750 per month plus perks.

Social Media consultants said they are paid USD300 per hour. Some have indicated they get USD2000 to USD3000 per engagement.

Read the full write-up here.

Singapore university students protest against censorship of news in its university newspapers.

The local Straits Times decided to run a foreign news agency story in its papers, instead of using its journalist’s story.

One leads to another and, viola, we have a conspiracy theory by Mr Wang of mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com.

Wrote Mr Wang,

However, here we have a protest in Singapore, held at Hong Lim Park. The event is organised by students from a local university, and concerns an editorial decision about an article, which itself is about a very local event - Chee Soon Juan’s speech at a local educational institution. It is a highly local story.

And yet the ST did not cover the story itself. It did not assign any reporter to interview the students or NTU or Chee Soon Juan. It did not even send a photographer to take any of its own photos of the event (the photo I reproduced above is an AFP photo). Why? We can make a few guesses.

(1) The ST is incompetent at sniffing out newsworthy events. It found out about this particular event only after it had happened, and had to purchase the article from AFP, instead of sending its own journalist to cover the event.

(2) The ST knew about the event. However, in the same way that NTU had been nervous about publishing the article about Chee’s speech, the Straits Times was nervous about doing its own report, about a protest concerning that matter. In other words, the ST decided that it was too politically risky to report the event itself. If the ST published the "wrong" things in its article, it might attract a reprimand from the Singapore government, for crossing the line. It would be much safer to just reproduce a foreign agency’s report.

(3) The ST had deliberately chosen not to report this event. It intentionally decided not to publicise this particular matter concerning a protest about censorship in Singapore. However, after AFP broke the story, the ST felt that for the sake of its credibility, it could not pretend that the event had not happened. Therefore the ST quickly purchased the article from AFP and published it here in Singapore.

As of this posting, there are 61 comments with theories on why the Straits Times used the AFP article.

In this blog generation, this blogger wonder if the Straits Times will respond to this post via its “Inside the ST newsroom” blog to encourage more interaction between its writers and readers, or be like any other corporations who do not respond to rumours and conspiracy theories.

This blogger is a bit late, but its never too late when it comes to blogging.

The Ministry Of Manpower of Singapore released its finding on wages in July  this year and it is interesting to find out much the players in the media scene are paid in 2007.

Of the 50 journalists surveyed, their mean average basic salary is about SGD3,368.

Interestingly, 84 editors of newspapers and periodicals were survey  and they earned a mean average basic salary of SGD5,217. The lowest quartile being SG3,575 while the highest quartile being SGD6,435.

Interesting because this blogger thought the number of editors in Singapore are almost equal to the number of fingers and toes this blogger can count on her.

On the dark side, an advertising and PR manager can earn a mean average of SGD6,243. Those in the lowest quartile earn about SGD4,414 while in the highest quartile,  the mean average is SGD7,714.

It is no wonder why many journalists end up on the dark side.

The full survey results can be found at here.

Technorati Tags: wages,public relations,journalist

Smartbrain was recently sent this article on the Wall Street Journal Asia with a simple question: Is it biased reporting or is something missing? Well, Mr Mahmud, it is not as bad as most BBC reports which Smartbrain feels are hopeless biased in favour of Thaksin, but there are some glaring errors and some misleading phrases here and there.

Two years after the Thai military ousted then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the full cost of that bloodless coup is finally becoming clear. Violent antigovernment protests this week have left two people dead, 443 injured, and the country’s democratic prospects in jeopardy.

The protests were never violent. It was the crackdown that was violent and totally unexpected. Manager has clips here that clearly show a peaceful rally with a speaker on stage when police suddenly opened fire with teargas without any warning.

They now call themselves the People’s Alliance for Democracy, but they are anything but. Their goal is to eliminate Thailand’s one-man-one-vote democracy and replace it with a parliament that is 30% elected and 70% appointed. Why? To make sure that no one like Mr. Thaksin is ever elected again.

Nope. 100% elected, but with a portion directly elected, and another elected from within the same profession. That means, a doctor would get one direct vote and another vote for the “doctor” category. A bit of a mess, but it is not appointed.

The PPP may not be perfect, but it has a mandate from the voters. A vote-buying case against the PPP and two smaller parties will be brought to court next week, and a guilty verdict could force the PPP to dissolve. Until then, it remains the popularly elected government.

Slightly off here. The case against the PPP’s executive has after many months already been concluded and he has been found guilty of vote-buying. So the case against the PPP is more of technicality rather than a proper case in that respect. The constitution says that if a party executive board member knows of fraud in his party and does not stop it, the party is to be disbanded. The MP in question is a party executive board member and it would be hard to argue that he does not know what he is doing.

The PAD is crying foul over the measures employed by what they call a “killer” government. But they themselves operate like a small army: Several PAD supporters were carrying guns during the street battle on Tuesday, and others had iron rods, slingshots, spears, etc. One policeman was impaled, and two were shot.

Nothing really wrong here (though personally Smartbrain did not see any PAD guns or spears), but please, can we have a bit of perspective here? One policeman was impaled, two were shot. Meanwhile 440-ish (depending on the source) protesters were injured and two killed. Injured here means needing medical treatment, not just those who were gassed like Smartbrain.

He could also hunker down and wait for the PAD to wear out — although this could take a long time, seeing as the PAD is constantly rotating in new “protesters” from the countryside.

“Protesters” with quotation marks? So if they are not real protesters, what are they? Smartbrain has been protesting there for four days straight now but has taken this night off out of exhaustion.

Smartbrain wonders who wrote this piece. If he is based in Bangkok, one might accuse him of bias, but if it is out of Hong Kong or another place not quite here, then perhaps it is just plain vanilla ignorance.

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