IDEA, Incredible? #13: Old media embraces new media?

AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) listed this blog! It is part of The Star's AllMalaysia.info online portal. It's also having a contest sponsored by Genting.........

Old media embracing and engaging the new media?

What an idea! Incredible! Or an incredible idea?

IDEA, Incredible? #12: All-Blogs 'representing' bloggers without a mandate?

WOW! Something happened. Looks like some bloggers like Poli101 are not happy that "the National Press Club kakis successfully staged a coup d etat , formed a junta, and the generals made themselves the voice of the Malaysian blogosphere."

Journalist and blogger Susan Loone also posed a pertinent question, "Who does All-Blogs really represent?"

Even ex-blogger Jed Yoong of Freelunch 2020 was quoted saying, "All Blogs must come clean that they HAVE no members, is an UNREGISTERED society with a pro-tem committee elected by about 40 bloggers (figure according to the STAR report), most of which appears to be pro-BN (Barisan Nasional), part of an anti-pak lah (Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi), pro-najib (Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak)/Tun Mahathir Mohammad (ex-Prime Minister) faction. Then we have the outliers, loose cannons."

"So if I was still blogging, I would like All-Blogs to change their name as it is a misnomer, to quote KTemoc."

KTemoc also not happy with state of affairs as he wrote, "...at this stage, the title ‘All-bloggers’ may be a bit of a misnomer."

Old-timer and respected socio-politcal Mahaguru is also not pleased writing, "All Bloggers need to take our feelings into consideration and do not assume that they speak for the entire Malaysian Bloggers Community without taking a referendum as to where we stand on any such issues especially when it involves our liberties to be able to blog as we please."

Apa jadi? What happened? How to represent bloggers without a mandate? Democracy or junta?

What an idea! Incredible! Or an incredible idea?

Senior General Than Shwe, 73, is the head of the ruling junta and controls the army in Burma, which has been ruled by a repressive military junta for the last decade and a half, prompting economic stagnation and international condemnation. (BBC)

IDEA, Incredible? #10: Zam defines new terms

Information minister Zam said there should be "professional" and "non-professional" bloggers to "facilitate the action to be taken against those found to have violated the country's laws".

He believed that professional bloggers were those who were more responsible in ensuring that their web content was based on the truth and not rumours.

BERNAMA

Zamspeak for "professional" and "non-professionals"? Non-professionals = amateurs?

Label us? Will there be separate "professional" and "non-professional" EXAMS too?

What an idea! Incredible! Or an incredible idea?

World Press Freedom Day - May 3

Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news.

This year's theme is Press Freedom, Safety of Journalists and Impunity.

“The rights to life and to liberty and integrity and security of person and also to freedom of expression are fundamental human rights that are recognized and guaranteed by international conventions and instruments.”

(UNESCO Resolution, General Conference 1997)

From UNESCO.
For more info, click here.

Jeff Ooi has listed events related to this here. And to see what people are doing in a REAL democracy like the United Kingdom, go here.

Surfed around the blogosphere and came across a bloggers gathering. So, here is a tiny advert.

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