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Sep
Let’s Roulette!
Did you still remember the very first time you stumbled onto my blog? You might like to post it in the comments box.
Previously, we had to rely on search engines to search for blogs. Not that the approach is particularly flawed or anything, but what happens is that new bloggers get buried under the deep pile of search results, and since visitors rarely dig so deep, valuable gems get unpicked. And I know how it feels, to have splurged all your brain juice onto a cyberpage without any readers: My personal home page is a deserted backwater in cyber space.
Now blog providers are giving these new guys a chance. Introducing the random blog feature! tBlog has its “Updated Blogs” feature to allow visitors to view freshly updated blogs. Blogger now has a new feature that allows us to visit blogs on its network! Look at the mini-bar right at the top. Go ahead, give it a spin. Who knows, you might even find your long lost friend’s blog!
Blogger’s Next Blog (Hold Shift and click simultaneously to open in a new window)
on September 14th, 2004 at 4:55 pm
ever notice that, for a population of about 4 million or so, Singaporeans really blog a lot?
on September 14th, 2004 at 9:21 pm
I’ve noticed that Singaporeans blog a lot too, and I think it’s great. Singaporeans are international. They reach out.
I can’t remember when I came across your blog (on tBlog, originally, soon after I started mine I think), but now I use Bloglines to keep track of my favourite blogs. (http://www.bloglines.com/) It means that if I come across a blog I like I can just add it to my list, and whenever it’s updated I get notified. I have quite a few listed that I don’t comment on, just read. It’s very convenient. If I decide the blog isn’t one I’ll continue reading I remove it. Easy easy easy.
(You won’t be removed, don’t worry. There are few enough out there worth reading, and you’re one. Most blogs, to me, read like teenaged ‘me me me’ whines. Yours doesn’t. You notice things outside the emotional self-obsession of most bloggers, and I think you’ll only get better. Keep on blogging!)
on September 14th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
I guess it’s partly due to the Internet infrastructure the government has put inside that makes it easy for people to get online and do stuff.
I still remember the days when the school library was the only avenue for free Internet (back in the bad old days of 1998), people would flock there to chat on chatrooms…
Thanks for that compliment. There are not many things someone cooped up in camp can write about. The guys in the bunk try to upgrade themselves (some read up on chess strategies, others study economics), its almost as if they are mature and sensible adults…
Geez, I am on a border here, between the fond memories of childhood, and the frightening concept of “adulthood”. Given the current state of world affairs, sometimes I wished I would never have to grow up, cuddle up in my mom’s arms and sleep forever that kind of thing?
on September 15th, 2004 at 11:35 am
I’ll let you in on a little secret: that feeling never quite goes away.
When I was a child I used to think that being ‘grown up’ was something that happened suddenly. My older siblings used to say things like, “You’ll understand when you grow up,” and so I thought that one day I’d wake up and understand everything.
I’m still waiting for it to happen.
on September 15th, 2004 at 9:20 pm
The above entry is rather interesting. Ermm, so this explains how I managed to find your blog and realised yet another person stuck in the same plight as me… Haha, the nation’s slave, or what NS means to me.